Each year, pupils of the 8th and 9th grade get the chance to have a two-week internship in companies to get valuable orientation guidelines for their future careers. in the month May this year we had another young student for a small internship who worked on Bittle our pet robot dog. This time it was…
An adequately maintained database is the core requirement for efficient processes and effective work. In the rapidly changing environment of technical installations and their components, the creation of this dataset is often tricky for many organizations. In order to provide our customers with the best possible support in this important digitization step, we have developed…
The management and handling of tickets is one of the core functions many of our customers face. Typically, internal and in many cases external staff are provided with an easy to use user interface in speedikon C, that allows for the creation of various types of tickets. Given the notion of “mobile-first” there are also…
Power consumption in Data Centers is growing exponentially these days. One reason is the pandemic situation with countless meetings and conferences held in digital form exclusively. Another key factor is the significant rise of digital currencies. Thus, Bitcoin only consumes more energy than Belgium and New Zealand together. In 2017, Bitcoin’s power consumption was around…
The cooperation with well established, competent partners in the market place is a decisive cornerstone for the continuous market penetration of our solutions portfolio in Europe and overseas. In this context, we are happy to have won Green H2 Power based in the Santiago de Chile region as a strong partner with proven expertise for…
Each year, pupils of the 8th and 9th forms get the chance to have a two-week internship in companies to get valuable orientation guidelines for their future careers. It is our pleasure to support young people in their professional orientation period, and thus offered 14-year-old Katharina Köhler from Georg-August-Zinn grammar school in Reichelsheim such an…
Cleaning management is one of the core processes within facilities management – though there are numerous that are much more complex that traditional facilities management and therefore need specialised solutions. One of those areas is the documentation of the cleaning processes in clean rooms. In order to provide support even for those very complex environments,…
Round about this time last year we introduced you to our partner Framence GmbH and provided you with a first glimpse on how the C-platform and the FRAMENCE technology can benefit each other. Over the last couple of months the colleagues at FRAMENCE took a closer look at drones and developed a method that allows…
During internal or external audit periods, do you also face the challenge to control on a regular basis, which employee is in possession of which key? In the past, this used to be a more or less painful undertaking. Having released speedikon C 6.2, we can now provide the configuration package “key confirmation” for customers…
Many areas of industries are changed by digital transformations. New technologies are revolutionizing processes and working methods. Augmented Reality is most certainly one of those disruptive technologies that will to bring about change. The whole idea behind AR in industrial applications is the on-site support. Whether through remote assistance, or through displaying additional information or…
Over the past weeks, most organizations have been moving to video conferencing, people are working from home or following mobile work concepts, and the information exchange on communication platforms has grown exponentially. This has caused a dramatic and rapid increase in data traffic. And it is why Data Centers are being recognized as important critical…
Some of our customers already use very successfully methods of regression analysis on the WiriTec C platform to be able to forecast the expected energy demand. Driven by the initiative of one of our customers, we have significantly extended the scope of these functions to use them for in-depth analyses of the actual energy demand.…
Using BIM models is getting increasingly important as the basis for planning buildings and technical facilities. This element of digitization provides a clear added value for owners als well as operators of those objects. To be able to realize that benefit within a building’s life cycle, a reliable and always up to date BIM model…
Just have a quick look on your wrist…and are you wearing a smart watch? In case you do, then you belong to the fast-growing group of people trying to ease already their every-day lives by smart wearables. Whereas fitness tracking, reading e-mails or contactless paying can be considered the more private use cases, wearables are…
The world is getting smarter and smarter – regardless of the current stockpiling of toilet paper going on these days – this is still the case, basically. Thanks to digitization increasing every day, information is always available, anywhere. The only remaining obstacle to overcome in today’s Facilities Management, however, is capturing the data. Top-modern, high-tech…
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality will play an increasingly important part in society and especially in the working environment of the future. Even though these technologies are far from reaching their zenith and many things are still in the development phase, “Spatial Computing”, i.e. human interaction with a computer that is spatially aware…
Digital Twins of buildings, assets and technicals installations can yield a significant benefit not only for the daily operations but also for planning und documentation purposes. Having all the necessary information accessible in one place leads to optimised processes, quicker decision making and a reduction in time and money spent. It is vital that all…
In the context of rapidly progressing digitization, the introduction of 5G and IoT solutions already available, there is absolutely no doubt that the amount of data to be processed will dramatically rise to infinity due to additional factors driving digitization. As a matter of consequence, there will be no alternative to distributed systems, so called…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…