At the end of this month, BIM World Munich will open its doors and there will certainly be a lot of talking around and about BIM during this period. Wherever you look or whoever you listen to, BIM will be the future and a life without BIM is simply unimaginable. As a leading CAFM solutions…
Professional lease management is a topic that is part of the every-day core business at many of our customers. That is why we have been dealing with this topic for quite a long time, and have delivered high performing software solutions for lease management over the past years. Many users took advantage of our comfortable…
As of today, we are going to deliver the latest speedikon® C Version 5.3 to our customers. There is a lot of new and useful functionality available for all product areas such as CAFM, DAMS and WiriTec. In future, the following new modules can be used with a respective basic configuration: Land parcels management –…
There is a lot of talk about Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance these days. And the key objective is always to improve and shorten maintenance cycles such that all activities will be carried out exactly at the right point in time. Such a fully digitized type of maintenance is certainly the ideal case; however, it…
Last week, Internationalization was the key word for our group of companies. Friday afternoon, we had the pleasure to welcome a delegation of managers from India in our corporate headquarters in Bensheim. Altogether, 15 participants from quite different industry sectors took advantage of their visit to get first-hand information about a large variety of options…
As the keen readers of our newsletter will already know, we have decided to share our ample knowhow with you. Therefore we recently developed a specialised consulting concept for you. speedikon® C Solutions is the one-stop consultancy for all your digitalisation needs. We provide solutions-oriented consultancy as well as transfer of knowhow for all your projects concerning the…
Most companies have outsourced their general cleaning to an external service provider. The qualitiy of the cleaning is typically governed by service level agreements, that are defined and provided by the prinicpal. As to whether the cleaning is carried out accordingly, has to be monitored by the principal. In many cases, the service provider himself…
These days, CO2 emissions are again dominating the headlines. Mankind has consumed the resources that nature is able to regenerate within one year already by the end of July (Earth Overshoot Day). In this context, the German economic magazine Wirtschaftswoche inquired the DAX corporations in an article published lately about their climate goals to be…
BIM2FM – What other topics could be discussed? As a responsible person for Building Operations, please do not worry too much about BIM. The world will not be re-invented in this field, even if you could get the impression it would. In any case, it is your individual and long-term experience that tells you what…
BIM2FM – Take advantage of the opportunity There are rumors going around that BIM, and respectively the 3D model that was created during the BIM process, will be the new SSOT (single source of truth) for building operations. Quite frankly speaking, can you imagine processes such as maintenance planning, workplace management and contract management handled…
Whenever there is a bouncy castle on our car, it is a clear sign that our annual summer party is about to happen Last Friday the 3rd annual summer party of speedikon, WiriTec and our partner FRAMENCE took place. A majority of our staff together with their families accepted our invitation and joined us f.…
Today, we would like to tackle a topic in our blog that many of our customers and prospects take great interest in, according to our experience: the use of IoT technologies in the FM arena. Whatever magazine you are reading, whichever conference you are attending, or what else comes to your attention in endless adverts,…
speedikon C version 5.0 delivers not only very beneficial new functions for existing modules, but also entire functional packages and new useful apps. Here are two respective examples we would like to introduce today: One of these apps enables users to capture messages on mobile devices. They can even elaborate on these apps in case…
As most of you are aware of yet, we have been offering weekly webinars for quite some time already. These webinars, focusing on a variety of topics centered around our solutions concerning Facility Management, Energy Management and Data Center Infrastructure Management, are normally held on Thursdays and do enjoy very frequent participation. Unfortunately, we receive…
Despite smart meters, various bus systems and respective apps, many of our customers are still using measuring technology that requires manual capturing on a regular basis. Subsequently, those data captured is registered on little routing slips. The reasons for this procedure are as manifold as our customers’ individual profiles. Often the amount of work requested…
speedikon® C has always supported the comprehensive documentation of all equipments and technical installations; further many of our customers use the system the support their planned preventive maintenance. Thereby all technicals assets are very known and docuvmented on a global scale. The next big thing is looking at the daily life of the equipment, meaning…
Last Wednesday, the metropolitan area of Rhine-Neckar hosted the 8th Regional Conference for Energy and Environment. We contributed to this top-class event that took place in the John Deere Forum in Mannheim by giving a presentation titled “Effective use of renewables through intraday-load management”. At the forefront of this presentation was the idea, that AI…
We were delighted that an international group of managers visited our offices in Bensheim last Monday. During this visit the managers from emerging economies gained an insight into the use of modern IT-technologies in the field of the digitalisation of business processes. Aside from the presentation of various use cases and case studies, the exchange…
After its formation in mid-September, speedikon FM AG’S BIM User Group had a pretty promising kick off meeting on 25th October at the headquarters in Bensheim. We are proud to state that many of our customers followed our invitation and discussed a lot of quite exciting subjects. One of these key-topics was the general usability…
Many of our customers have operations in Asia; with some of those we already have realised projects in the respective countries in the past. Since further projects are planned in Asia, and we do want to strengthen our existing local partner network, Adrian Merkel is attending the Asia-Pacific Conference in Jakarta. During the conference, that…
This morning, did you wake up earlier than the time set on your alarm clock? Do you feel slightly out of your normal rhythm? Then you are probably a victim of the time change. For our international customers using our system in different time zones, changing the time is quite an every-day topic. Hence, data…
We are delighted to announce that the success story of our customer Borgers will be published in the ‘IT&Production’ magazine October issue with the title ‘Efficiency Management leading to ISO50.001 Certification’. The automotive supplier Borgers with headquarters in the westphalian Bocholt is running in the fifth generation under the management of the founding family. Since 2013, the…
The speedikon® C SNMP Monitor monitors all systems, devices and their complete range within the IT infrastructure. All functions are directly available in speedikon® C. This allows complete transparency in your network in terms of location, uptime and load factor. We´ve all been in this situation: All information regarding network and power supply is accessible, communication…
A BIM-Model usually comprises building components such as walls, ceilings, struts, windows, doors, etc. In rare cases also, technical components and equipment. Especially when it comes to 3D-post-documentations of existing buildings the data collected is limited to the above-mentioned building components due to financial reasons. Further factual information is vital for documentation, inspection and maintenance…
Today´s topic, Batch Management and Optimisation, is actually a logical add-on to one of our blog posts we shared with you a couple of months ago with the title: Energy KPI. Within the Batch Management the focus is set on identifying energy and resource consumptions of individual production steps of a product and how these…
Today’s topic is daily business for a majority of our customers: monitoring measurement and sensor data. Data monitoring is a core task within Energy Data Management. Persons responsible for monitoring consumptions need prompt overviews to respond to abnormal values accordingly. We know, from our experience, that data monitoring in these quantities should be executed automatically…
One of our current projects is focused on supporting the teaching and use of robots using augmented reality. We are following two main ideas in this project: the first one is augmenting information onto the robot; the other one is to simulate the entire robot and it’s possible movements. For teaching purposes, the position as…
Our second annual summer party took place last Friday. A majority of our staff together with their families accepted our invitation and joined us for our summer party 2018. With blue skies, sunshine and – following the heat wave – a rather nice temperature we spent a wonderful afternoon. Apart from the wonderful food from…
Responding to TIA and ISO Standards on one hand and the availability of necessary resources on the other constitute an area of conflict, in which Data Centers nowadays need to act. To be able to work properly according to above mentioned standards and guidelines, a considerable amount of resources is indispensable. However, these are often…
We want to focus with today’s blogpost on one of many extensive evaluation possibilities within WiriTec® C: the day analysis. Displaying measuring data and consumption data in consecutive periods and time ranges is a typical scenario within professional Energy Management. Thus, evaluations are created with daily, weekly, monthly or yearly periods. Individual consecutive weeks or months…