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6 days ago

To Minimize Operational Risk, Start by Preventing Alarm Overload

What You Should Know: Inundating facility management (FM) operators / dispatchers with an average alarm rate of > 12 alarms per hour can cause alarm overload, leading to… · critical alarms being missed, · incorrect alarm response (human error), · unplanned shutdown of revenue generating assets and spaces, · and…

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To Minimize Operational Risk, Start by Preventing Alarm Overload
To Minimize Operational Risk, Start by Preventing Alarm Overload

4 min read


Nov 2, 2022

Using the Flywheel Effect to Transform Your Facility Maintenance Program

Improved Facility Management Performance can be achieved by getting better at Unplanned Work (Corrective Maintenance) in order to free up more time for Planned Work (Proactive Maintenance). — Facilities Management (FM) personnel are being challenged like never before to reduce cost, improve labor efficiency, prevent unplanned downtime, and increase asset lifetime / reliability. Reducing headcount might seem to be a promising cost reduction option on paper, but it would have a negative impact on patient care and occupant…

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Using the Flywheel Effect to Transform Your Facility Maintenance Program
Using the Flywheel Effect to Transform Your Facility Maintenance Program

6 min read


Oct 7, 2022

“Situation Awareness” — Coming Soon to a Facility Management Control Room Near You

Situation Awareness drives better decision-making by turning data into actionable Information and focusing attention on critical alarms & events. — Providing systems that support situation awareness (SA) is a commonly used technique to improve operator decision-making in mission critical applications like aviation, power generation, transportation, nuclear, medicine, and oil & gas. Notice that I didn’t mention facility management (FM) of data centers, or institutions like healthcare and higher education. …

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“Situation Awareness” — Coming Soon to a Facility Management Control Room Near You
“Situation Awareness” — Coming Soon to a Facility Management Control Room Near You

7 min read


Sep 29, 2021

How to Minimize the Impact of Retirement on Your Facility Team

Strategies to Prepare for the Wave of Retiring Employees — The Challenge of the “Great Retirement” As “Baby Boomers” retire en masse, you’re likely already seeing major changes in your workplace. Studies suggest nearly 40% of Facilities Management (FM) professionals will retire within the next decade. Boomers are an integral part of FM teams — the average facilities manager is 49 years old. Until recently, Boomers…

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How to Minimize the Impact of Retirement on Your Facility Team
How to Minimize the Impact of Retirement on Your Facility Team
Facility Management

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Sep 20, 2021

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of: Facilities Management

How to Attract and Retain New and Diverse Talent to Facilities Management — There are an abundance of career options available to Millennials and Gen-Zers as they tend to be highly-educated, driven, tech savvy, as well as out-of-the-box-thinkers. But how many do you think have considered a career in Facilities Management? Before we get started, let’s define Facilities Management. Facilities management is probably…

Facility Management

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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of: Facilities Management
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of: Facilities Management
Facility Management

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Sep 8, 2021

Fostering Connection in a Time of Remote Operations: Virtual Facility’s Inaugural Offsite

Planning & Attending an Offsite with Your Remote Team in 2021 — As the US began to feel a major impact from the Covid-19 pandemic and related shutdowns, Virtual Facility pivoted to a completely remote operation. Now, like many other businesses, we’ve focused on filling in the gaps inherent in a remote-only work environment, particularly around bringing our team together in a…

Facilities Management

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Fostering Connection in a Time of Remote Operations: Virtual Facility’s Inaugural Offsite
Fostering Connection in a Time of Remote Operations: Virtual Facility’s Inaugural Offsite
Facilities Management

6 min read

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