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GameChangers Club: How Investa Raised Their Property Operations with Intuitive CMMS Evaluation

Insights from Investa x Facilio Customer Journey: Investa Property Group, one of Australia's largest commercial real estate companies, has more than 550,000 square meters under management. They evaluated specific big names in the industry but failed to move forward because of their inability to integrate with their existing legacy

Asset Management

Asset Management

Repair or Replace Decisions For Asset Management are Simple With a CMMS

Asset management is critical for every business's operations. It helps to control downtime and manage unexpected costs. However, damages to the assets are inevitable. That's primarily due to regular wear and tear. In either case, you must decide whether to repair the existing asset or replace it with a new

What is Asset Lifecycle Management?

Building Operations & Maintenance

Asset Lifecycle Management: How To Optimize Asset Potential

Remember Copernican heliocentrism, where the Sun sits at the center and other planets orbit it? Not many used the Copernican theory effectively or even believed it. Similarly, businesses often tend to ignore asset lifecycle management (ALM) despite knowing that a 360° visibility of an asset portfolio is crucial for business

What is CAFM? Application, Benefits, Adoption & More

Managing property operations can be a nightmare. The idea of doing it efficiently and accurately is even more challenging. But what if someone told you that these are easily achievable? Enter computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) tools. And at the most fundamental level, such systems involve automated processes that help you

Predictive maintenance management - Facilio

Building Operations & Maintenance

What is Predictive Maintenance (PdM), and Why is it Important?

Have you ever heard engineers say, "that doesn't sound right; something's broken," based on how a piece of equipment sounds? The first time an engineer said that was the first instance of "anticipating a fault based on current operating parameters of that equipment before it breaks down" or predictive analysis.

The Complete Guide To Enterprise Asset Management

Building Operations & Maintenance

The Complete Guide To Enterprise Asset Management

Enterprise asset management (EAM) is a process that helps enterprises ensure their expensive and complex physical assets such as vehicles, industrial equipment, and plants operate optimally. EAM is popularly used in industries that rely on such critical assets and equipment for operational success. Oil and gas, mining, energy, utility, government,

Best CMMS Software

Software List Featured

Top 10 Best CMMS Software in 2022

A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is necessary for a maintenance manager to simplify tasks. Occasionally, it is referred to as computerized maintenance management software. The software is widely popular because it helps significantly minimize manual work. It provides a comprehensive approach for keeping maintenance and service businesses organized. Numerous

Infrastructure Asset Management

Asset Management Featured

How a CMMS Helps With Infrastructure Asset Management

Introduction A CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)centralizes maintenance information and simplifies maintenance operations. It is used by enterprises to maintain and optimize their current infrastructure. Via this, transportation, tools, connectivity, industrial infrastructure facilities, and other resources are used more effectively, and their accessibility is greatly improved. Additionally, CMMS also

What is preventive maintenance? Facilio

Building Operations & Maintenance

What is Preventive Maintenance? A Comprehensive Guide

The primary goals of any organization's maintenance management program are standard - 1. to reduce asset deterioration, 2. reduce unplanned downtime, 3. and save costs on expensive run-to-failure maintenance Reactive maintenance (also known as run-to-failure maintenance) is the oldest and, to date, a popular maintenance strategy. It is an easy

Facility Management

Facilities Management

What Is Facilities Management? Challenges, Solutions, & More

Maintenance isn’t exciting. For many, it’s a chore, something they’ll rather skip. Then again, think about it. Whenever you forget that growing pile of paper, broken lights, or even the peeling paint, you send a powerful message to customers and employees about how you care for the

What is CMMS? A Comprehensive Guide

Maintenance and supervision are crucial to saving costs, preventing asset failures and downtimes, and ensuring maximum asset life. After all, your assets and materials are at stake. How do you ensure your heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) units are in good condition? Likewise, how do you ensure other equipment

Maintenance Management Systems Aren’t Just For Building Maintenance Anymore

Building Operations & Maintenance

Maintenance Management Systems Aren’t Just For Building Maintenance Anymore

We have all seen pictures of the first computers. They were huge machines, often taking up entire rooms. Large manufacturing plants with access to these machines leveraged them to run computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) that read paper punch cards to track simple recurring tasks. As the innovation in technology

My thoughts on Facilio’s $35m SeriesB, Scaling Challenges, and the Growth of Enterprise Vertical SaaS

My thoughts on Facilio’s $35m SeriesB, Scaling Challenges, and the Growth of Enterprise Vertical SaaS

I’m writing this on the heels of some exciting news, not just for Facilio, but for the entire real estate operations industry On Feb 22, 2022 [aka Twosday as it’s now known], we announced our $35m in SeriesB financing, led by Dragoneer Investment, with participation from Brookfield and

#5QuestionsWith a Digital FM Expert

Building Operations & Maintenance

#5QuestionsWith a Digital FM Expert

#5QuestionsWith is an interview series with RE experts to help the industry learn, grow, and be inspired. Read on as IoT and PropOps leaders talk to us about the highs and lows of what it means to be a change-maker in the smart buildings arena. Cindy Hermsen is the CEO

2022 Tech Resolutions for Operations Professionals: Mobility, Integrations, and Automated Workflows

Building Operations & Maintenance

2022 Tech Resolutions for Operations Professionals: Mobility, Integrations, and Automated Workflows

After an eventful 2021, facilities management firms are ready to hop on a steady wagon to a brighter future. Technologically advanced and differentiated solutions have arrived to make life easier for property operations professionals to make more informed decisions that have high and accurate impact. In case you haven’t

Real Estate Operations in 2021: Best of The Year and What It Means For 2022

Building Operations & Maintenance

Real Estate Operations in 2021: Best of The Year and What It Means For 2022

How would you describe your real estate business in 2021? Chances are, it’s very different from what it was 2 years ago. The shape of our industry is changing fast, and we must adapt if we want to thrive. We decided to bring together consultants, academics, and experts across

#5QuestionsWith a Buildings Automation Expert

Internet of Things

#5QuestionsWith a Buildings Automation Expert

#5QuestionsWith is an interview series with RE experts to help the industry learn, grow, and be inspired. Read on as IoT and PropOps leaders talk to us about the highs and lows of being a change-maker in the smart buildings arena. Ken Sinclair is the founder and publisher of AutomatedBuildings.

Building Operations & Maintenance

Here’s Why We Built The First-Ever Connected CMMS

Introducing the Connected CMMS, a reimagined approach to the traditional CMMS/CaFM to meet today’s enterprise O&M needs. Back in 2017, when we set out to build the property operations platform of the future at Facilio, CMMS featured as a key part of the puzzle. When it comes

Smart Building Operations for the New World

Connected Buildings

Smart Building Operations for the New World

Doug Ricardo is the CIO at Mark Street property Group in New York. Like many others, the pandemic has left him with a set of unique challenges at his workplace. His firm, a real estate group, manages a portfolio of buildings, mostly with retail operations. They are facing a slow

How data powers the future of building maintenance & optimization technology

Building Operations & Maintenance

How data powers the future of building maintenance & optimization technology

In recent decades, an evolution in CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Software) has introduced data-driven maintenance capabilities, in commercial real estate operations. CMMS, which was once looked at merely as centralized software to optimize maintenance management, is now on the verge of major tech-driven advances. One could go so far as

#5Questions With Building IoT Expert

Internet of Things

#5Questions With Building IoT Expert

#5QuestionsWith is an interview series with RE experts to help the industry learn, grow, and be inspired. Read on as FM and PropOps leaders talk to us about their highs and lows and what it means to be a change-maker in the smart buildings arena. About Salvatore Cataldi A specialist

#5Questions With A Smart Buildings Expert

Connected Buildings

#5Questions With A Smart Buildings Expert

#5QuestionsWith is an interview series with RE experts to help the industry learn, grow, and be inspired. Read on as IoT and PropOps leaders talk to us about the highs and lows of what it means to be a change-maker in the smart buildings arena. Nicolas Waern is the CEO,

Smart building success needs a new & improved system integration model: Here’s why

Connected Buildings

Smart building success needs a new & improved system integration model: Here’s why

There’s an ever-growing momentum behind property owners deploying smart building tech projects across their portfolios. However, it is not without struggle. While owners and operators are increasingly recognizing the business value of emerging technologies, it’s often the integration with existing systems that is the biggest bottleneck to those

Why you need to extract more value from your building data and analytics

Connected Buildings

Why you need to extract more value from your building data and analytics

It is largely understood that analytics software for buildings provides unmatched power to support the processes—such as energy management, commissioning, and data-driven maintenance—needed to operate a modern portfolio of commercial buildings. For us analytics nerds, it finally feels like we’re not alone in preaching about this power.

#5Questionswith an IoT Expert

Internet of Things

#5Questionswith an IoT Expert

#5QuestionsWith is an interview series with RE experts to help the industry learn, grow, and be inspired. Read on as FM and PropOps leaders talk to us about their highs and lows and what it means to be a change-maker in the smart buildings arena. About Phillip Kopp Phillip Kopp