The second event was the ‘ARCHIBUS KL System Administration Training’ (3rd – 5th April 2009) attended by our internal technical team and also 2 other ARCHIBUS partners team from our neighbouring countries, namely Thailand and The Philippines. The objective of the this event is to update and enhance ARCHIBUS application knowledge and technical skills for the participant and also to unite ARCHIBUS solution partners in the South East Asia Region.

Overall, the seminar had received positive feedbacks from both our clients and the ARCHIBUS South East Asia partners who joined us.

Building Maintenance & Asset Management Expo Asia 2008 (BMAM Expo Asia 2008) serves as an annual 2-day international trade exhibition and conference platform dedicated exclusively on building maintenance and facility management across Asia which will bring together all key players in the industry under one roof. This event will also act as an educational forum for building owners, engineers and key decision makers to better understand the benefits and importance of building maintenance and facility management.

Here are some snapshot photos from the event:

   

Mr Bruce K. Forbes, president of ARCHIBUS Inc. who is on his tour in South East Asia visited Kuala Lumpur and gave a thoughtful session basically about how technology can be utilized to save our environment apart from saving money and keeping the cost down.

       

Microcorp Technology is the Malaysian partner for ARCHIBUS and is keen to further promote the use of ARCHIBUS technology and its use to enhance Facilities Management practices in Malaysia. For more information, do contact us.

Here are a few snapshots taken during the training session recently held:

ARCHIBUS Training at Microcorp

Microcorp Technology Training Room View 1

Microcorp Technology Training Room View 2

The training above was a subsequent session of a 2 weeks training program. Here are some photos taken during the event:

We have already made plans to make use of the training rooms and hopefully it will gain more usage and benefit our clients and for our own staff.

International Facility Management Association (IFMA) defined Facility Management as:

“A profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology.”

Extracting some text-book material of Facility Management and its relation towards technology:

Facilities and physical infrastructure management is a critical business function. Comprising 25 to 50 percent of a company’s/organization’s fixed assets and operating costs, facilities are significant resources that must be efficiently managed in order for a business to succeed in a globally competitive market.

Facilities information crosses an organization’s traditional department boundaries. For example:-

• A CFO evaluating mergers requires accurate real estate portfolio information.
• A CEO generates business plan projections that drive a planner’s space forecasts.
• A space planner allocating resources must integrate data from all departments and communicate the result to architects.
• A move planner must coordinate data from the facilities, telecommunications, and maintenance departments.

Facilities information also crosses the boundaries of traditional software applications:

• CAD drawings depict a facility’s structure and areas.
• Databases store alphanumeric data about rooms, equipment, furniture, repairs, and breakdowns.
• Spreadsheets calculate areas, rent, and maintenance costs.
• Routed approvals flow through email.
• Web browsers pull casual and remote users directly into the workflow.

As such, to implement facilities management automation, you need a specialized package that understands the corporate roles and responsibilities, understands the business missions and what each role requires to achieve them, knows how to validate and flow facility information through an organization, and can integrate diverse technologies into a unified whole.

In our next series of introducing facility management solutions, we won’t bore you with even more text related material. Instead, we’ll have a lot of screenshots and probably video presentation or slide shows which we think would be more exciting! Hope you had enjoy our brief introduction to ARCHIBUS and have a productive day ahead.