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The Tradeline BLOG is an online exchange of quick bits of breaking information, intelligent “briefs”, promising technologies, emerging trends, HOT concepts “overheard” at Tradeline conferences, and some rare, practical stats that will help you keep tuned to the capital projects and facility management profession.
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Where IT, FM, and security meet.
Integration is a current best practice. This includes the integration of security systems, technology, and IT; and integrating application software programs to eliminate the cost of running multiple systems. Integration initiatives that eliminate multiple...
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Square footage is the key.
The best cost reduction idea is to elimate square feet. Sandia invested one man-year to eliminate $15-million of new construction dollars and the associated operating cost of that space.
- From Tradeline's New Management & Operations Strategies for ...
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Automated data collection is crucial for implementation of FM initiatives.
The foundation for any facility management streamlining initiative is an automated system for acquiring quality data. This requires a major time and money commitment to get such a system in place, but without it you will fail. The automation of data colle...
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The use and applications of PDAs for operations and maintenance.
The introduction of PDAs in operations and maintenance will make big changes in the operations work environment. In cases where you need tech signatures to verify data for compliance purposes, it is now possible to do signatures electronically via PDAs.
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Use modeling to develop a proactive management stance.
Modeling is the key to a proactive and predictive stance on the part of facilities services and asset management organizations.
- From Tradeline's New Management & Operations Strategies for Technically Complex Facilities Conference 2005...
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An important tool for simplification and expense reduction.
Process mapping can show opportunities to cut the number of steps and the number of decisions made in some costly processes by eighty to ninety percent.
More on Six Sigma processing mapping techniques....
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Innovation is a prime characteristic of successful FM groups
Attendees at Tradeline's New Management & Operations Strategies for
Technically Complex Facilities Conference 2005 espoused that facilities
groups that can think entrepreneurially are the ones that add value to
the organization. ...
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A Resource Allocation Strategy
At Tradeline's New Management & Operations Strategies for Technically
Complex Facilities Conference 2005, a strategy was proposed for
dealing with deferred maintenance:
To attack the deferred maintenance problem, implement a system to
avoid the ...
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A Current Trend in Management
A recurring theme at Tradeline's New Management & Operations
Strategies for Technically Complex Facilities Conference
was "Centralization". Centralization appears to be the current trend --
centralization of systems, centralized management, centra...
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