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 – What is the real benefit of 3D? BIM has initiated a widespread discussion about 3D models. In the planning phase, it is quite beneficial to the builder to have a virtual walk-through to get a realistic idea of his future building and subsequently take the right decisions. However, when talking about future building…
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…
These days, there is a lot of discussion going on about BIM2FM in the marketplace, about quite different approaches and ideas. We have grasped the opportunity to dedicate the subsequent 4 blog articles to report about the every-day practical challenges in this field. Every second day, we will throw a glance on yet another aspect…
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.…
Bei der speedikon und WiriTec ist man dank Markus Heuck (37) und seinem FUTURE.LAB immer auf dem neuesten technologischen Stand. Im Interview erzählt er, was er dort macht und was ihm an seiner Arbeit gefällt.
Am 23. Juli und am 20. August 2019 veranstalten wir um 14 Uhr wieder einmal unsere beliebten Rundgänge durch das hauseigene Forschungslabor „FUTURE.LAB“, wo die Technologien der Zukunft entwickelt werden.
In the context of an efficient data centre management, the exchange of data such as cost centres or client’s names between a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and our DCIM platform DAMS C has become a standard process for many of our clients. More ambitious in this regard is the process of adding devices to DAMS…
The mobile network 5G is a hot topic right now in the public discourse, including costly auctions and a discussion about whether or not “every backwater needs 5G”. The subject LoRaWAN fades into the background although it could be considered as an alternative. WiriTec GmbH sees potential in the new technology and has been looking into this…
A ticketing system can be flooded with questions that are easy to answer as well as with problems that occur daily, and which are easy to solve. In order that you can settle these matters quickly, we developed the configuration package “Knowledge Base”, a database in which users can search for entries that contain answers…
On April 11th, 2019, speedikon FM AG won the German Data Centre Award (Deutscher Rechenzentrumspreis). The renowned prize was awarded to the winners of the data centre industry during a ceremony at the future thinking congress. Patrick Burghardt, State Secretary of the Hessian Ministry of Digital Strategy and Development, is the patron of the award…
We at speedikon FM AG and WiriTec GmbH wish you a Happy Easter! Next Monday, there will be a new blog post again. Would you like us to write about a certain subject, or do you have other suggestions or questions? We are looking forward to your message. Our partner FRAMENCE is going to do…
As we have reported before, our partner company FRAMENCE has developed a revolutionary software for digitalising buildings and facilities based on simple pictures. The software creates hybrid models out of panoramic pictures which act like real 3D models and which can integrate 2D maps and 3D models (BIM). The digitalisation with FRAMENCE is simple as…
For many of our clients, it is not only essential to have recent data of their facilities at hand but also data from other points in time. Therefore, we integrated a time slider into speedikon® C for you. Thanks to the time slider, you can have a look at current data, but you can also examine…
On Thursday, 11 April 2019, once again speedikon FM AG welcomed a group of international managers at the speedikon headquarter in Bensheim, Germany. The CEOs and senior managers from several threshold countries such as Mexico or Malaysia had been invited to receive an impression of the latest IT technologies that are used in digitalisation projects.…
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…