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Acronyms with the facilities and maintenance management industry are becoming a more common occurrence, and in this respect the software industry is no different.<\/p>\n
Although facilities management systems can be referred to by a few different terms<\/a> such as FM software, IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management System), CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management system), the most commonly used acronym in the UK is CAFM \u2013 or Computer-Aided Facilities Management.<\/p>\n CAFM is a software programme that can be used to manage the facilities, assets and workspace within your company. Traditionally this took place on paper, or using an Excel spreadsheet. At a time when facilities managers and their stakeholders expect immediate access to accurate, real time data and reporting, the use of spreadsheets for capturing FM information continues to lose impact and relevance in the business world, and FM software has become a tried and trusted way to manage facilities.<\/p>\n CAFM software, such as Service Works\u2019 powerful, modular system called QFM, provides facilities managers with information at their fingertips. From keeping track of asset maintenance and managing work requests, to locating engineers in the field using GPS technology, you can choose to implement the elements that are needed within your organisation.<\/p>\n Almost all FM software applications are capable of monitoring and helping with planning in the following areas: Once information on one of more of these aspects is captured centrally, a facilities manager can use the data to easily monitor and report on performance, cost and service quality, as well as being able to communicate this in a timely manner to managers, engineers and stakeholders. A new FM software system is a powerful tool which can increase the efficiency and ROI of many FM processes. Making the transition from paper or spreadsheets might seem a daunting task but a good software service provider will be able to manage much of the work for you and show you the ropes. Modern systems are designed to be as intuitive as possible, to reduce the amount of training time required and increase staff uptake. For example, QFM\u2019s self-service module boasts a clean graphical interface, meaning users can select from images rather scroll through a list to allow quick job logging, submit time sheets or book a room with minimal difficulty.<\/p>\n If you would like more information on QFM, or how to implement a CAFM system, Service Works would be happy to help. Contact us on info@swg.com<\/a>, 020 8877 4080 or click here<\/a> to book a demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is CAFM? Read on to see what CAFM software does, and how it can benefit the facilities management in your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,54,66,68,70],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fm","category-asset-management","category-productivity","category-space-management","category-workplace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9957,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/9957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swg.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is CAFM?<\/h3>\n
Why use a CAFM system?<\/h3>\n
\u2022 FM \u2013 buildings\/people\/services\/resources\/contractors including help desks
\u2022 Asset management \u2013 buildings\/plant\/equipment
\u2022 Property\/space management \u2013 rentals, leases, space usage, churn and move management
\u2022 Workspace management \u2013 conference\/meeting room\/visitor\/car park bookings, including management of associated services (e.g. catering) and cross-charging\/invoicing
\u2022 Sustainability \u2013 environmental management and control<\/p>\n
CAFM also retains a full history of maintenance activities, with all actions time and date stamped. So in addition to accurate data it also creates a reliable audit tool from which facilities managers can use to ensure their compliance to SLAs and key health and safety legislation. And what\u2019s more, transitioning to CAFM doesn\u2019t mean your current data becomes obsolete, it can be imported into the new system to ensure operational continuity.<\/p>\nHow easy is it to use CAFM software?<\/h3>\n