Video Series Features FMs Solving the Industry’s Toughest Challenges

By David Trask

Facilities team everywhere are struggling to find information quickly, onboard new employees, and boost productivity. These short videos showcase facilities managers who’ve faced down and solved every one of those problems. From Ann Arbor, Michigan to California’s Central Valley, these facilities managers are making technology work for them.

Facilities Challenge: Finding Information

What do the teams who manage healthcare, government, and educational facilities in California, Michigan, Florida, and Oregon have in common? They all used to spend countless hours searching for the information they needed to do their job.

That is until they integrated the ARC Facilities Platform into their workflows. With ARC, facilities managers James Bombaci, Matt Baker, Bridget Graham, Tim Edsell, and Rich Steiger have solved their most persistent challenge to productivity: poor information management.

Hear these facilities managers talk about solving the challenge of finding information in this video:

ARC Facilities Platform: Finding Information

Facilities Challenge: Retiring Workers

The FM industry is facing an exodus of retiring workers. In the next eight years, 40% of facility management professionals will start retiring. I’ve discussed this in the past and cited the need for the industry to start reaching millennials.

Still, reaching a younger workforce is one thing. Onboarding them and transferring information from the outgoing employees to the new staff is an entirely different challenge.

In this video, listen to John Crouch, Director of Facilities at Florida Hospital Wesley Chapter and Rich Steiger, Facilities Manager at Orange County Government, discuss how to mitigate the expense of retiring workers.

ARC Facilities Platform: Retiring Workers

Facilities Challenge: Improving Productivity

Wondering how a single platform could make life easier for facilities managers in such different industries? In this next video, you’ll see for yourself how the ARC Facilities Platform boosts productivity. Watch it to see how ARC helps facilities teams:

• Complete 30 percent more work orders.
• Deliver better service.
• Catch up and stay ahead of preventive maintenance tasks.

How Facilities Teams Boost Productivity with ARC

Want to Learn More About These Facilities Teams?

For more details about how the facilities teams featured in these videos found, purchased, and integrated the ARC Facilities Platform into their operation, head over to our customer stories.

About the author

David Trask National Director - Facilities Solutions, ARC

David Trask has presented at IFMA World Workplace, IFMA Facilities Fusion, ASHE, AIIM, Facilities Expo, Construct Canada and numerous other events across the U.S. and Canada with a focus on helping organizations better manage their facility information. Trask shares Facility best practices in Healthcare, Municipalities, K-12 School Districts, Universities, Federal Agencies, Retail and Private Owner Groups while providing key takeaways that can be put into practice in your business.