The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and techniques needed to perform all the essential tasks required to manage a facility. The course includes important concepts such as strategic and financial planning, engineering design, automation, and maintenance. Participants in this interactive course will learn all the processes and activities required to manage a facility effectively from different perspectives: operational, environmental, contractual, and technical and to make the optimum decisions for their facilities.
Explain the foundations of facility management
Analyze strategic options and make decisions necessary to manage the facility
Utilize environmental and contractual factors in selecting appropriate facility site
Identify the tools and techniques necessary to develop a facility's engineering layouts and make decisions about automation and disaster recovery planning
Discover the importance of proper maintenance management and project management of a facility
Apply project management techniques to manage large size facility tasks
Use capital budgeting concepts and techniques to ensure implementing the appropriate decisions regarding facilities
Day 1
Overview of facility management
Defining facility management
Role and responsibilities of the facility manager
Facility management main activities
Challenges and risks
Strategic Facility Planning
Retaining services in-house versus outsourcing
Facility management strategic options
Outsourcing facility functions
Supplier selection
Service level agreements
Facility location
Site criteria considerations
Day 2
Engineering planning and design
Design requirements and layouts
Approaches for furniture planning
Closed plan approach
Open plan approach
Space and furniture considerations
Criteria matrix
Adjacencies matrices
Relationship diagram
Bubble diagram
Block planning
Facility Management Information System (FMIS)
Day 3
Maintenance and operations management
Emergency maintenance
Corrective maintenance
Preventive maintenance
Predictive maintenance
Facility security
Day 4
Managing large facility jobs
Defining large facility jobs
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Developing a schedule
Gantt chart
Resource planning
Day 5
Facility Financial Management
Evaluating alternative plans
Ranking the alternatives
Weighted factor comparison
Facility budgeting
Common ratios and trend analyses
Capital budgeting evaluations