Cafmlane answers

Every answer below is aimed at a question people measurably search for, is written from named sources, and links to the page that handles the job itself. None of them is a landing page in disguise.

The answers here are the questions a small facilities team asks while it is working out whether to buy a CAFM at all: what the acronym covers, what the record underneath has to hold before any dashboard means anything, how much of the space is actually used and what the empty part costs, what the estate runs at per square foot and per person, and what the asset base will cost to replace. Each one hands off to the guide and to the free sheet that works its figure, with no account.

• A CAFM system, explained by the record it keeps and how it differs from a spreadsheet

  What CAFM stands for, what a CAFM system holds, and the three figures it exists to produce, with free sheets that work them from your own estate.

• CAFM software, judged before the demo rather than during it

  What CAFM software must hold, what to test in a demo, and the free sheets that give you your own figures before any vendor gives you theirs.

• Facility management, described by the four figures the job actually runs on

  What facility management covers at a small organization, the four figures the job runs on, and free sheets that work each one from your own estate.

• Facilities management software, judged by the record underneath

  What facilities management software has to hold before its reporting means anything, and the free sheets that work the four figures it should produce.

• Best facility management software, judged on your own estate rather than a list

  How to judge the best facility management software for a small estate, the demo script that separates products, and the sheets that come first.

• Facility management app, judged by what it does standing in a plant room

  What a facility management app has to do in the field, why offline capture decides it, and the free sheets that work the figures the app collects.

• Facility management tools, and which of them a small estate actually needs

  Which facility management tools a small estate actually needs, in what order, and the free sheets that do the arithmetic before you buy any of them.

• Facility asset management, from the register to the sinking fund

  What a facility asset register must hold, how condition and age turn into a replacement profile, and the free sheet that works the annual sinking fund.

• Facility condition assessment, and the number it exists to produce

  What a facility condition assessment produces, how the facility condition index is worked, and the free sheet that turns condition into a replacement plan.

• Space management software, judged by what it holds about the estate

  What space management software must hold, how it differs from a booking product, and the free sheet that works utilization and the cost of empty desks.

• Space utilization, worked honestly and read carefully

  How to work space utilization from a fortnight of counting, which metrics to read alongside it, and the free sheet that prices the empty desks.

• Occupancy tracking, by the four methods and what each actually measures

  The four ways to measure occupancy, what each actually counts, what they cost, and the free sheet that turns the reading into a utilization figure.

• Office space management, from the seating plan to the cost of the empty half

  How to allocate office seats, how much area a person actually needs, and the free sheet that prices the desks nobody sits at.

• Space allocation software, and holding who sits where as data

  What space allocation software holds, how allocation differs from booking, and the free sheet that checks the allocation against what is actually used.

• Stacking plan, and how to test one before anybody moves

  What a stacking plan shows, how to test one against real occupancy before a move, and the free sheet that prices the space it frees up.

• Cloud based facility management software, and what hosting actually changes

  What hosting changes about facility management software, what automation genuinely removes, and the free sheets that work the figures either way.

• Facilities management software for small business, and estates that look like one

  What a small estate actually needs from facilities management software, what to skip, and free sheets that do the arithmetic before you buy anything.

• How to use CAFM software in the first ninety days

  How to get a CAFM into use in ninety days, what to load first, and the free sheets that give you the figures to check it against.

• Facility management platform or point product, and what a dashboard actually shows

  When a facility management platform beats point products, what a dashboard is derived from, and the free sheets that produce the figures either way.