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Complete facility management at your fingertips
Autodesk and DLT Solutions have teamed to help public sector agencies manage facilities in one easy format, saving time, improving accuracy, and making real-time information available across the entire agency.
Explore our resources to find out how Autodesk® facility management solution can help your agency:
- Optimize space planning and utilization with comprehensive asset and inventory data.
- Proactively manage occupancy costs leveraging a variety of existing file types.
- Make better informed decisions in critical response situations with accurate views of information.
The Solution – Autodesk® FMDesktop™
Autodesk® FMDesktop™ makes it easier to inventory, track, and generate timely reporting for your real property assets. Learn how you can access, integrate, and distribute important facility information through an intuitive interface purpose-built for facilities professionals.
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The components of Autodesk’s facilities management solution include:
- Autodesk Facility Link: Enables connection of objects in facility drawings to records in the communal Autodesk FMDesktop database through an intuitive interface.
- Autodesk Facility Manager: Helps manage all facility drawings and data in one database environment. Query, pan, zoom, print, and share facility drawings and data.
- Autodesk Facility Web: Allows users to access and share all facility data and drawings through the Internet or your organization’s intranet.
- Autodesk Facility Request: Helps facility occupants enter service requests ranging from corrective maintenance to moves.
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Special Government Offers
Through July 15, 2008, DLT and Autodesk are offering U.S. government customers a combination of software and services that provides value, superior functionality, and training in a convenient package. There are two promotional options to meet your agency’s needs.More
FMDesktop for Government Stand-Alone Promotion
Provides your agency with the functionality and training to deploy a single-user configuration of Autodesk® FMDesktop™ software. Package includes:
- Autodesk® Facility Link 7.1 stand-alone license with subscription – one year
- Autodesk® Facility Manager 7.1 Administrator for MS Access software with subscription – one year
- Facility Manager 7.1 User for MS Access with subscription – one year
- Three days on-site installation and training
- Two days off-site for prep and data loading support
- Email and telephone support (four hours)
FMDesktop for Government Web-Enabled Promotion
Provides your agency with the functionality and training to deploy a single-user configuration of Autodesk FMDesktop and enable users to view facility data and submit work requests over the web. Package includes:
- Facility Link 7.1 stand-alone license with subscription—one year
- Facility Manager 7.1 Administrator for MS Access with subscription—one year
- Facility Manager 7.1 User for MS Access with subscription—one year
- Autodesk® Facility Request 7.1 Server for MS Access software with subscription—one year
- Autodesk® Facility Web 7.1 for MS Access stand-alone license with subscription—one year
- Four days on-site installation and training
- Two days off-site data-loading support
- Email and telephone support (eight hours)
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White Paper:
- BIM and Facilities Management White Paper.
Features & Articles:
The following articles were featured in [acronym] magazine, a quarterly magazine that provides industry relevant information to digital design professionals working in the public sector.
- Closing the Loop – Using BIM to Integrate Building Design and Planning with Post-Construction Facility Management.
- Counting on Autodesk FMDesktop.
- Giving Facilities Management Its Due
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Learn More in Your Own Time – On-Demand Webcasts
Webcasts:
View and listen to these pre-recorded insights into how your agency can get complete facility management at its fingertips. More
Got Questions?
Frequently Asked Questions:
- How is Autodesk FMDesktop different from other CAD-based facility management software?
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Autodesk® FMDesktop™ software greatly simplifies the process by which a drawing’s spatial information is connected to the database. Autodesk FMDesktop has the ability to “batch-connect” polylined spaces to the facility database. This unique functionality is easy to use and extremely powerful.
Autodesk FMDesktop also provides team members who don’t use CAD with simple, intuitive tools for viewing and managing graphical spatial information. The DWF™ file format makes it easy to manage drawing information outside the CAD environment.
Autodesk FMDesktop is different from other CAD-based facility management software because it is simple to use. The software is intuitive and looks similar to Microsoft® Outlook so users can be productive almost immediately.
- Do I need to have CAD drawings of my facility spaces to use Autodesk FMDesktop?
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No, the information can also be entered into the database. This option allows companies that don’t have supporting CAD drawings to use FMDesktop effectively.
If facility drawings become available, the user has the choice of using the entered area or the area derived from the drawing polyline. This provides a high level of flexibility and versatility.
- In the context of CAFM software applications, what does “polyline the drawings” mean?
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For a facility’s space information to be connected to a database, each space must be defined digitally. The easiest way to do that is to draw a closed polygon around each space to identify it. This process name got shortened to “polylining.” This process is done in any CAD application, such as AutoCAD® software.
Autodesk® Facility Link provides a comprehensive set of tools that function in AutoCAD or Autodesk® Architectural Desktop software to simplify and automate this function.
- How can I get my existing facilities data into FMDesktop?
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FMDesktop is built on a Microsoft® Access database platform. Access has robust data import features already built in. When you combine the data import capabilities of Access with the robust drawing management capabilities of the Autodesk® Facility Link application, virtually any data in electronic form can be easily imported into the FMDesktop database.
- What’s the difference between CAFM and CMMS?
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Computer-aided facility management (CAFM) software focuses primarily on space management issues: who owns it, which employee works in it, where it is, how much of it is there, how much does it cost, and so forth. It also is used to manage moves and renovation projects that change how the spaces look and work. There is also usually a graphical component to CAFM so that users can connect CAD plans to facilities database information.
Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software focuses primarily on maintenance issues and problem resolution. Assets in a facility break down and somebody has to fix them. The primary vehicles for communicating problems and resolutions are the initial work request that is logged when something is wrong and the work order that is created to track the steps to fix the problem.
CMMS software also includes tools to manage preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance focuses on processes and activities designed to maintain assets before they break and to extend their life. CMMS may include tools to manage parts, equipment documentation, fleet maintenance, staff and subcontractor activities, and so forth.
CAFM and CMMS sometimes overlap in the area of work orders. Most CAFM software uses work orders to manage staff and department relocations as well as renovation projects. The work order provides a convenient and efficient tool to manage the details that go with these activities.
In large facilities different groups are generally responsible for facility and maintenance issues. Each group may want software tools that meet their specific needs. In smaller facilities the same team may be responsible for both functions and prefer a tightly integrated solution that meets all their needs.
FMDesktop is a CAFM application with CMMS functions built in. Facility managers typically want a single application to manage both facilities and CMMS processes. FMDesktop fills both needs nicely.
- Are the Facility Link and Facility Manager components of FMDesktop available as a network license or floating license?
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Autodesk® Facility Link and Autodesk® Facility Manager do not currently support network or floating licenses. Separate Facility Link and Facility Manager licenses are required for each named user who is using these applications.
- Is subscription available for FMDesktop?
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Yes, subscription is available for many Autodesk products, including FMDesktop. Autodesk® Subscription is the best way to keep your design tools and learning up-to-date. For more information about Autodesk Subscription, call 1-888-447-2223 or visit www.dlt.com/autodesk/subscription.
Complimentary Solutions – Design. Build. Operate.
Autodesk provides software focused on the complete plan, design, build, and operate lifecycle. These tools enable federal, state and local agencies to more efficiently manage physical assets, infrastructure, facilities, and the design and construction process.
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Building Design & Construction: Autodesk products help optimize space planning and utilization when expansions or new construction are considered. In addition, Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become a standard for new construction and building reconfigurations, making integration with other Autodesk solutions seamless.
Real Asset Management: Using existing data, Autodesk products help proactively manage occupancy costs and maximize your use of facility space. Asset data can be used for mission planning and to optimize coordination among departments. Instant access also allows you to rapidly respond to requests for theater information, providing details like asset location, terrain, and how quickly assets or teams can be recalled, mobilized, or deployed.
Base/Campus Visualization: With Autodesk products, almost every type of campus asset—from personnel to vehicles to physical structures—can be tracked and managed more efficiently. Rapidly delivered spatial information enhances the ability to visualize exact locations, while data can be reconfigured in multiple ways for use in scenario planning and real-time emergency response.
Physical Security & Protection: In a crisis, Autodesk products enable important assets to be quickly located and assessed. Data from multiple sources can be used to determine threat levels and analyze vulnerability, and building occupants can be rapidly mobilized.
Collaborative Project Management: Autodesk Collaborative Project Management, delivered on demand, streamlines communication and business processes across project teams to help ensure the successful execution of your projects and programs.
Please call a DLT representative on 1-888-447-2223 to find out more about these solutions.
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