A Commercial Approach in Facility Management

Performance-Based Facility Management – An Integrated Approach

Increasing demand for healthcare services worldwide creates continuous requirements to reduce expenditure on “non-core” activities, such as maintenance and operations. At the same time, owners, users, and clients of healthcare expect improved performance of built-facilities and minimized risks. The objective of this research was to develop an integrated Facility Management (FM) model for health...

An ontology change management approach for facility management

Facility management (FM) or technical property management is an approach to operate, maintain, improve and adapt buildings and infrastructures of organizations. A FM project requires the cooperation of many actors from different domains so it has to be automated in a constrained collaborative environment. This paper proposes a new approach for ontology change management applied on facility mana...

A Supply Chain Design Problem Integrated Facility Unavailabilities Management

A supply chain is a set of facilities connected together in order to provide products to customers. The supply chain is subject to random failures caused by different factors which cause the unavailability of some sites. Given the current economic context, the management of these unavailabilities is becoming a strategic choice to ensure the desired reliability and availability levels of the dif...

Biodegradation of Nitrogen in a Commercial Recirculating Aquaculture Facility

Ergonomics and simulation-based approach in improving facility layout

The use of the simulation-based technique in facility layout has been a choice in the industry due to its convenience and efficient generation of results. Nevertheless, the solutions generated are not capable of addressing delays due to worker’s health and safety which significantly impact overall operational efficiency. It is, therefore, critical to incorporate ergonomics in facility design. I...