Pain points of facilities managers and how fmfirst can help

1. Safe and operational environments    

The primary responsibility of a Facility Manager is to ensure the building/estate always remains safe and operational. A substantial amount of time gets spent analysing the issues that can arise. This includes planned and preventative maintenance tasks, asset management, staff training, and other issues that may occur.

How our applications can help

fmfirst® Tasking is an application that enables users to easily create defect and planned work and manage and report on tasks. The application comes with a variety of various reporting dashboards that allow Facility Managers to identify trends in the data and opportunities to improve efficiencies.

Users can track and update jobs when out in the field by downloading the application on their mobile device. fmfirst® Tasking also includes a Ward Helpdesk for contractors to update their allocated tasks and upload service records.

2. Regulations and compliance    

For buildings to be kept safe and operational, compliance and regulatory standards must be met. Within healthcare organisations, specifically the NHS specifically, compliance standards must meet the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021. 

Cleaning compliance is across sectors is a KPI for many Facility Managers, along with building regulation compliance. Facilities Managers are responsible for maintaining compliance programs and staying up to date with any amendments to these standards and regulations.

How our applications can help

fmfirst® Cleaning is our auditing application designed to simplify and support the undertaking, reviewing, and reporting of the cleaning audit process. Its functionality speeds up the auditing process, increases productivity, reduces overall costs, and meets the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 requirements.

Asckey’s fmfirst® Survey is a tailored auditing/survey application that can be used to quickly and accurately collect data. This data enables users to prove compliance and identify possible risk areas with a variety of dashboards that help identify trends and areas of improvement.

3. Managing Existing Assets

Managing assets includes keeping the information up-to-date and accessible, particularly asset availability, maintenance status, and acquisition/disposal. Facilities managers are often tasked with scheduling preventative maintenance and monitoring processes to ensure all equipment and structures function correctly. This can be a time-consuming process so it’s important to have the information you need easily accessible.

How our applications can help

Asckey’s applications enable organisations to seamlessly marry traditional asset management functions e.g.: recording and tracking an asset’s lifecycle with other FM operations such as tasking, PPM, and mobile functionality.

Asckey is a founding member of SFG20 which is integrated with our software. This means you can have a direct link between an asset and the standard/HTM range of maintenance schedules, and the subsequent maintenance activity. From buildings to equipment, our software is designed to help organisations manage their assets in a more cost-effective, efficient, and informative way.

Summary

Any new technology comes at a cost, and it’s just not always possible to buy an entire package in one go, especially when you might not be using much of its functionality regularly. Creating a modular suite of applications is a more cost-effective option for many organisations. It means you can buy just the module you need when you need it and retain the flexibility and financial control to add on other parts of the software package as and when the time is right, or budgets allow.

Contact Asckey today to see how our software suite can minimise your pain points.