The CAFM software effectively manages real estate portfolios, which requires the facilities management to hold accurate and up to date information to make informed decisions.

The space management software assists with the planning of small occupancy updates to major strategic moves, streamlining processes and minimising organisational disruption. Accurate space chargeback ensures departments/divisions are incentivised to maximise their allocated space rather than requesting more.

Excitech FM's web interface grants users relevant information depending on their access rights, with the ability to view and update changes in real time. Comprehensive facilities data visualisation layers, dashboards and reporting tools ensure users can easily view data to help them monitor and understand how their facility is performing, using operational data to make strategic decisions.

The Moves Management tool allows users to streamline the planning of major moves, as well as making minor changes to keep staff locations up to date, ensuring minimal organisational disruption. A host of features such as space chargeback and document storage help users to manage all space information requirements.

The CAFM software technology integrates with both AutoCAD drawings and Revit models, allowing you to take advantage of the rich set of information they contain.

Excitech FM's unique BIM capabilities allow it to link directly to Revit models to validate, extract and manage data. Excitech FM has seamlessly integrated with several CAFM and IWMS solutions, ensuring spatial information is consistent throughout all of an organisation’s systems.

Modules

Space & Moves Management

The Excitech FM move management module is one of the most comprehensive moves management systems available. It is suitable for all sizes of organisation whether they need to manage small single person moves or major relocations.

Moves are planned using an intuitive and graphical Web-based moves planner where members of staff are moved from one location on a floor plan to another with just a few mouse clicks. Moves can be planned in advance and the system is simple enough for the planning task to be undertaken by general users if desired.

Business rules can be defined and applied to the moves request process to control which users can plan moves and pre-validate their move plans prior to them submitting them. Full email notification can also be set up to ensure that members of all the relevant support teams are kept informed.

Excitech FM can automatically create all associated documentation for the move including from and to lists, floor plans, crate labels, location labels and more. Move feedback forms can be collected and emails automatically sent to staff after their move to gather responses.

Multiple move plans scenarios can be created and moves can incorporate alternative project floor plan layouts as well as the current live floor plans. The system's ability to manage swing and stacked moves allows moves to be planned in advance even where members of staff are to be moved to temporary locations.

The Excitech FM moves planning module can streamline your moves process and help ensure that your staff location and occupancy data is more accurate.

BIM to Facilities Management

Excitech FM has tools that allow AutoCAD drawings to be published, automatically extracting space and location information from floor plans to be viewed via its unique Web-based viewer. With the industry moving toward using three dimensional modelling systems as part of an overall Building Information Modelling process (BIM) it is becoming a more common requirement to utilise building models created and maintained by software such as Autodesk Revit.

The Revit CAD tools have been designed to work in conjunction with the Excitech FM database structure and viewing system. This means that it is possible to have a single system containing a portfolio of buildings stored and maintained in a mixture of standard 2D AutoCAD drawings or 3D Revit models. Users can navigate through buildings using easy to understand 2D plans or select viewpoints for the server to generate three dimensional images of the building's interior; an invaluable tool for users that need to visualise complex environments such as plant rooms.

Because Revit models inherently hold so much information, the Excitech FM publishing tools have been kept very simple yet effective. Tasks such as defining room outlines and assigning room codes are managed using the standard Revit functionality. An easy to use add-in is then provided to allow the user to publish floors, export and import data and register floors.

Any Revit object property can be tagged for export to the Excitech FM database, putting all asset data within the model within easy reach of Excitech FM users via the web interface.

Mobile Solutions

By its very nature, the information that you most need to manage your property portfolio is often distributed over a wide area. Collecting information about space and other assets such as location, usage and condition, has always been a difficult and often costly task. Previous approaches tended to involve manual surveys with data collected on paper that then had to be manually entered into the system.

With the Excitech FM Survey Tool, questionnaires based on existing location data can be downloaded to mobile devices. Data can then be collected onsite, including in remote locations where no network coverage is available.

Once back within range of the network, data can be immediately uploaded back to the server with full audit tracking of which users and devices collected which data. All connections between the devices and the server are by standard HTTP based web services simplifying the connection.

The Excitech FM survey tool provides a practical and controllable workflow for collecting a wide variety of data opening up real opportunities to maintain and store data that was previously difficult to manage.