How is ARC Facilities improving the FM industry?

ARC Facilities is helping improve the FM industry by giving on-the-go technicians a huge productivity boost by eliminating the time-consuming task of locating building drawings and equipment documentation.

Technicians face a major conundrum: how can we access critical building information we need when we’re in the field. Many facilities store building plans in document storage rooms. These areas are filled with boxes of files, folders piled up or three-ring binders. At some campuses, building plans may be found on desktop computers or file servers – which still make document searches laborious. This problem is worsened as facilities teams travel great distance between campus locations to do maintenance.

ARC Facilities has looked at the challenges facing FM teams and has used artificial intelligence, machine learning, and optical character recognition to extract intelligence from building documents. Ultimately, your facility history is available to your team via an easy-to-use app on mobile devices. On-the-go facilities teams can instantly access building plans, emergency information, equipment information, renovation information.

Savvy FM teams are using the mobile app to pin key equipment and campus locations using color coding. Anyone on the team can update campus facility information from their devices.

The result? Greater on-the-job confidence and consistency.