CAFM - CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES (continue ...)
BENEFITS

The use of CAFM systems can benefit facility functions such as the following:

Strategic Planning: Tasks include analyses of property and space to provide capital planning of new or remodel assets to improve the mission of the organization. CAFM will aid the Facility Management in determining space requirements, equipment locations, construction costs, environmental constraints, encroachments, and other critical planning functions.

Space Inventory and Management: CAFM can define and standardize space attributes and data elements as well as the physical asset inventories of the organization including analysis of space dimensions and utilization, hazardous material locations, evacuation routes, fire equipment locations, and buildings attributes such as:

  • Age
  • Cost data
  • Life expectancy
  • Construction data
  • Contract and Warranty data
  • Building managers
  • Telephone numbers
  • Technology drops


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Benefits of CAFM usage in Facility Management tasks can be organized into quality of life, cost reduction, cost avoidance, and information improvement. Typical benefits include the following:

  • More efficient space utilization to achieve cost savings and potential reduction in asset inventories.

  • Reduction in moving and relocation activities resulting in greatly reduced relocation costs.
  • Continuous improvement in facilities management efficiencies.
  • Improved project planning leading to reductions in A&E, construction, and building maintenance costs.

  • Fast and accurate reporting on critical facilities information.
  • Existing processes will become more efficient and streamlined, using standardized data that is shared across the enterprise.

  • The CAFM will give facilities managers the tools necessary to become more proactive instead of reactive to facilities' requirements and enable better decision making.

  • Improve safety and environmental planning capabilities, reducing risk from accident and regulatory compliance violations.

  • Disaster planning capabilities are significantly improved to reduce the potential for human injury or death in a disaster as well as to improve those required for operational recovery.

  • Data standardization across the organization and the elimination of redundant information held by multiple organizations in various degrees of quality and accuracy.



Source: National Institute of Building Sciencies


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