There is no better way to grow a company than to learn from own clients.
We thought originally that Operational BIM is going to be a key value generation for the Facilities Management industry only, as valid data was the always missing part of #CAFM implementations. It was crystal clear, that the cost reduction for the 30-50 years of building lifecycle with data is key important. Not only for highly reducing operational costs but also to improve service levels in the meantime. A nice and clean goal to achieve, and we already have some nice results.
What we didn’t expect is that there are market segments, that struggle from the same problem, the lack of data at least on the same level. A production facility, where the production chains change every 2 weeks or a demolition company that needs in addition to the floor plan, amounts, etc. a graphical asset inventory or the today changing office industry? Clear requirements, but these were out of our scope originally.
Luckily our clients explain the use cases day by day to us, and we listen and listen, and build or at least modify what we have to align ourselves to the new demands. New segments with similar problems appear every day now by us.
Production Facilities, Factories
What we learned from some players in the market is that their unplanned downtimes cost close the same hourly as their annual FM budget. They try to prevent such breakdowns by implementing great sensor technology, but as the place of these sensors – and machines – change many times in every two weeks, it’s a lot of time to find and navigate to the equipment.
As a results we recommended to record all these changes by their technicians once they are done, and also attach simple photos of the given machines when they are taken apart. Later provides value by allowing the maintenance people to collect all tools and materials from the warehouse when they are on their way to the worksite by simply taking a look at those pictures.
Another tool for them is the maintenance videos accessible on site, so the workers can watch them at the place of the work thus highly reducing repair times while improving the quality of work.
Demolition Companies
Even though it’s logical, but we didn’t meet such companies before in our experience, so we didn’t think about that OrthoGraph could be a key tool for them. When planning demolitions the first thing that is required is an accurate floor plan of the building. In addition it’s the same important to collect an inventory of re-usable assets. Many times the saved assets are not used / built in by the same owner in a new building/construction work, but sold to someone else or even abroad. On the other hand we also met companies who not just reuse the ready-to-reuse assets e.g. the sanitary elements, but also reuse most of the things they can like sheets of bronze coverings. How great environmentally conscious approach is this, we were really impressed?
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The motivation besides being green for them is the same as with all other segments: saving as much as possible, reducing costs and risks and planning based on real amounts.
OrthoGraph ’s Operational BIM approach without modification – including the barcode/QRCode tagging of assets – is a great tool to fulfill all these needs. Condition survey, unique identification of assets to be saved – used later to review if every item is collected to the warehouse properly –, the volume of walls, objects, amount of plannable waste are all data, that generates revenue, reduces costs and time of work. The amount tiling, cladding or baseboard surfaces broken down by materials are a value both during and after operation too.
Shared Desk Management
We always told that Operational BIM’s main value is integration. To be reused in as many activities as possible. After COVID, now with the energy crisis many companies let employees work from home for some days a week – where it is possible. This means less office space might be enough for the same number of people, or energy usage reduction to areas where people can be sit closer together and some portions of the buildings can be closed down during the winter months. In current times where energy costs should be lowered this topic is essential besides other ways of energy cost reduction – where we anyway have great tools already provided together with our partners (read more about this: https://www.orthograph.com/orthograph-helps-saving-the-increased-costs-of-energy-crisis/).
We decided to implement microservices based upon the Operational BIM. One of them is shared desk management now – others to come –, where we don’t want to make fully featured key developments, but some easy and ready to use and implement solutions. We let the “big players” do the rest and we integrate with them. Everybody focuses on their own area, profession to make their high-end solutions – supported by our graphical engine.
What tools, functions would you love to see as part of OrthoGraph’s Operational BIM? Is there a simple microservice, that would help your everyday work? Give us your idea in a comment!
Author: ádám Korbuly