3 Phase Building Digital Transformation Approach

Facility Management Software, IOT / October 11, 2021 / Manvik / 1

What is Digital Transformation of Building

“Digital transformation (DX) is the adoption of digital technology by a company. Common reasons for its implementation are to improve efficiency, value or innovation.“

Nowadays there is a lot of buzz about integrating digital technology in facility management to change how we operate and deliver value to the customer. Transformation is a cultural change in an organization to continually experiment, and challenge the status quo.

Bringing your facility on digital platforms like CAFM, CMMS, give tools to facility team like:

Real-time information to different stakeholders enables quick decisions based on data.
Searching and tracking details about assets, work orders, maintenance, breakdowns.
Save on Maintenance Cost by analyzing the right time of replacement
Move towards greener building while saving energy by running power consuming assets optimally

Why Phase wise Digital Transformation to Smart Buildings

Some sort of digital tools are already being used.

What? Yes – Excel Sheet is also Digital !!

You can plan your digital journey:

Complete Advance Digitization in one go or
Phase-wise digitization.

Baby steps give us a slight edge over yesterday and are easy to take without changing the entire environment and team

Benefits of Phase wise Digitization

Some benefits of Phase wise implementation includes:

Better planning and use of resources
Employees comfortable with small increments
Less Risk & Cost
Focused and Measurable Benefits

Now, let’s see how can we plan different phases of digital transformation.

3 Phases for Facility Management Digital Transformation

Phase 1 – Start using CAFM or CMMS

The first step for any transformation is very important. This is the base of the digital transformation journey. Some facility operations that we can move to digital are:

Digital Asset Registers
E-Checklists
PM Schedules
Asset Tagging
Alerts & Reminders
AMC
Compliances

Key takers of Phase 1

Move towards sustainability through Paperless Operations
The first step towards digitalization
The base of future technological advancement.
The team get started and feel digital operations

Phase 2 – Real-Time Monitoring of Critical Assets

You can’t eat an elephant in one bite. The 80-20 principal make things handy or more impactful. The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”)

We can select few critical assets like:

HVAC or Air conditioning System
Transformers,
UPS, etc.

and start tracking them in real-time. IoT or Edges can be exploited for getting trends of power usage and other maintenance-related parameters.

Phase 3- Predictive Maintenance Digitize all that is required

In the last phase, we digitize what else is useful to be on the wire. This includes:

Other Assets, left out in 2nd phase
Inventories or spare parts
Tracking Process KPIs

In 3rd phase focus is on data-driven decisions and getting the best out of AI, ML & IoT implementations.

Conclusion

Phase-wise implementation not only minimizes risk but also gives us the necessary cooling period to adapt and enjoy the maximum fruits of digitization. CAFM, IoT vendors need to work closely with the Facility team to make this much-needed transformation a SUCCESS.