In this blog post, we will take another look at what is happening in our FUTURE.LAB. Aside from many other topics, we are currently looking into how new technology may increase the efficiency of maintenance procedures. The working title “Maintenance AR” summarises a number of projects and prototypes that are all concerned with using AR…
In speedikon® C, it is now possible to work with live data from your facilities. Until now, our clients have been using analyses that where surveyed in certain intervals, hence, the data of the facility was always retrospective. With speedikon® C version 5.1, you can monitor live data from sensors in a chart that is…
We are delighted to announce that speedikon FM AG has been nominated for the German Data Centre Award (Deutscher Rechenzentrumspreis), which will be awarded during a ceremony at Chamäleon Beach in the Rhine-Main area. The award ceremony takes place in the context of the “future thinking” data centre convention and under the patronage of Patrick…
Whether for correcting defects or for planning: you can receive helpful information on our DCIM platform DAMS C . Its network reports, in shape of graphics or lists, can show you where servers and patch panels are located and how they are interconnected; or you can find out how many and which kind of connections…
According to our clients’ experience as well as to our own, the digitalisation and survey of existing buildings and facilities is not an easy task. Usually, trained staff capture complete surroundings with laser scanners and generate a 3D point cloud. Subsequently, the point cloud is used to build a 3D model. Since this process is…
On the 26th of February, a BIM UserGroup meeting took place for the second time in the speedikon FM AG headquarter in the Hessian town of Bensheim. Twenty participants from our client base met up in order to discuss BIM processes in the context of facility management with a view of Auerbach Castle. The focus…
Did you know that our versatile Charly acts as an online marketing manager in the social networks? Charly posts exclusive news and can communicate with you on Twitter, Xing and LinkedIn. Social media has been a part of everyday life for quite a while and is not only used for private communication but also for…
As you may already know, a cost centre analysis that is based on inherited information was implemented in speedikon® C as a standard mechanism, in 2016. Hence, rooms inherit cost centre information from personnel since employees often bring their assigned cost centres with them and because it is helpful for analysis and for strategic planning…
Today, we would like to introduce our mobile app called “Mangelerfassung” which facilitates the defect management of your buildings and plants. On site, you can easily record defects offline on a map and synchronise the data with the speedikon® C platform. During a site inspection, defects of all kinds can be recorded and documented. If…
We are pleased to introduce you to two new colleagues at speedikom FM AG. Natalie Wocko and Sebastian Schrenk, who became part of our team at the beginning of February, can say: new year – new job at Speedikon Facility Management AG. Natalie Wocko will support us in marketing and attend to our social media…
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,…
The cooperation with well established, competent partners is a decisive cornerstone for the continuous market penetration of our solutions portfolio in Germany and Europe. In this context, we are happy to announce a strategic partnership with SCHÄFER-IT Systems in the Data Center marketplace for DAMS C. As a manufacturer of tailor-made infrastructural solutions and Data…
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 Christmas celebrations are very close ahead, we would like to wish all our Blog readers some nice and restful Christmas days with many peaceful moments for reading and relaxing. We would like to take the opportunity to sincerely thank all of you for your continuous interest in our weekly posts as well as for…
Version 5.0 of speedikon® C delivers a wide range of precious additional functionality in various application areas of our platform. One of the key topics in our ongoing development were the graphical functions. The GUI for processing the graphical objects has been revised such that functions are very easy to access and provide a clearer overview.…
Buildings, rooms, installations: Here are three selected object types that are managed in a CAFM system like speedikon® C. The number of these objects is often exceeds 10,000, and each individual object has got its own set of attributes. These can be in the high two or three-digit range – especially when different corporate departments…
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…
In decentralized system environments of organizations, the decisive efficiency factor is software systems’ ability to seamlessly communicate. The most common framework for automatic data transfer among Enterprise Information Systems are API Calls/Webservices. They enable smooth data exchange between DAMS C and various systems such as a CMDB or an ERP application. For the following reasons,…
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…
A while ago we dedicated one of our blog posts to our speedikon® C Version 4.1. Well, we´ve just launched the latest Version 4.2 of speedikon® C and we are happy to announce some interesting features: We come up against one central problem in many of our projects: CAD floor plans are delivered by architects without closed…
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…