"Facility management or facilities management (FM) is a professional management discipline focused on the efficient and effective delivery of logistics and other support services related to real property and buildings."
Designing and optimizing facilities for production and operations activities, including plant layout and material handling systems.
Facility Layout Planning: This involves designing and organizing the physical space of a building or industrial plant to ensure optimal flow of materials, equipment, and personnel.
Workstation Design: This includes designing efficient workstations that maximize worker productivity and minimize injury risks by considering ergonomics and other factors.
Materials Handling and Storage: This involves the handling and storage of materials within the facility, ensuring that materials reach their designated location at the right time for processing.
Inventory Management: This involves managing inventory levels to ensure adequate supplies are available to meet demand while controlling costs.
Transportation Management: This involves managing the transportation of raw materials, finished goods, and products between facilities.
Facility Capacity Planning: This includes forecasting the production needs of the facility and designing capacity to meet those needs.
Maintenance and Repair: This involves designing and implementing a system to regularly maintain and repair equipment and facilities to ensure maximum uptime.
Facility Energy Management and Sustainability: This involves designing and implementing plans to reduce the use of energy and other resources and promote sustainability.
Quality Control: This includes ensuring that products produced within the facility conform to the required standards.
Process Improvement: This involves identifying areas within the facility that can be improved through process redesign and other process improvement techniques.
Manufacturing Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for manufacturing and production.
Warehouse and Distribution Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for storage, distribution, and logistics operations.
Healthcare Facility Design: The design and planning of healthcare facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, medical clinics, and laboratories.
Educational Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for educational institutions, such as schools, colleges, and universities.
Retail Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for retail businesses, including department stores, specialty shops, and supermarkets.
Office Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for office buildings, including layout, occupancy requirements, and environmental systems.
Sports Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for sports and leisure activities, such as stadiums, arenas, and fitness centers.
Hospitality Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for the hospitality industry, including hotels, restaurants, and resorts.
Transportation Facility Design: The design and planning of facilities for transportation, including airports, seaports, and train stations.
"It encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality, comfort, safety and efficiency of the built environment."
"It encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality, comfort, safety and efficiency of the built environment by integrating people, place, process, and technology."
"...as defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)."
"The profession is certified through Global Facility Management Association (Global FM) member organizations."
"...the efficient and effective delivery of logistics and other support services related to real property and buildings."
"The efficient and effective delivery of logistics and other support services related to real property and buildings."
"...integrating people, place, process, and technology."
"The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)."
"Functionality, comfort, safety and efficiency of the built environment."
"Global Facility Management Association (Global FM) member organizations."
"To ensure functionality, comfort, safety and efficiency of the built environment."
"It encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality, comfort, safety and efficiency of the built environment."
"...integrating people, place, process, and technology."
"By integrating people, place, process, and technology."
"The efficient and effective delivery of logistics and other support services related to real property and buildings."
"Multiple disciplines to ensure functionality, comfort, safety and efficiency of the built environment."
"The efficient and effective delivery of logistics and other support services related to real property and buildings."
"Facility management or facilities management (FM) is a professional management discipline focused on the efficient and effective delivery of logistics and other support services related to real property and buildings."
"The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)."