Imagine
Our buildings are talking to us all the time. What if we could UNDERSTAND what they’re really saying?
Challenge
Here’s the problem: there’s often too much noise interfering with our ability to hear our systems clearly, leading to a lack of transparency.
Lack of Data Management
No Processes
Reactive decision-making
Lack of Data Management
It starts with data — the language building systems use to communicate vital information about operations. Without data, we’re left in the dark. But too much data can also pose a problem by overwhelming both the system and system operators. With so many devices and applications at work within modern buildings, facility operators may now find themselves battling a serious case of data fatigue.
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No Processes
Gathering data is essential, but it’s also just the first step. Making data usable requires a structured process to identify, prioritize, and act on relative system information. Without the right people, processes and technology the problem of data fatigue compounds, leading to confusion instead of clarity.
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Reactive decision-making
When data overwhelms rather than informs, leaders are forced to fall back on reactive decision-making to address immediate needs and forgo proactive workflows that anticipate issues and prioritize actions. By focusing on short-term solutions, reactive workflows impede long-term strategic thinking and can result in increased operational expenditures and energy costs, workforce staffing issues, aging infrastructure and equipment, and negative occupant experience. Remove from a cost to ...transform your building from a liability to an asset. Results instead of Result.
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Solution
But with the right approach, you can cut through the noise to transform your building from a liability to an asset. At Siemens, we call this the Holistic Service Methodology.
Holistic Service Methodology
Results
Transparency
Holistic Service Methodology
Here’s how it works: the Holistic Methodology understands your building as a system made up of three core components of environmental controls: mechanical equipment, Building Management Station, and the network interconnecting them. When an issue affects one of these components, it impacts all of them, resulting in facility issues that can threaten business continuity. So it’s essential to ensure the health and efficiency of all three systems together over their entire life cycles. In addition to controlling environmental factors, these systems are also the primary contributors of building data. Connecting them through a holistic service strategy opens the opportunity to add a process to data management that gives you a clear view of your organization.
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Results
The end result of a holistic service methodology is TRANSPARENCY across operations that allows your organization to understand what your building is really saying.
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Transparency
Organizational transparency transforms how building systems are managed, starting by bringing light to data so you can see operations clearly. Adding a process to data allows you to respond to problems quickly. And finally, when data informs it can be leveraged to make decisions proactively. Together, these advantages help organizations to improve workforce efficiency, consistency of operations and energy spend, and extend equipment life cycles.
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Challenge
Here’s the problem: there’s often too much noise interfering with our ability to hear our systems clearly, leading to a lack of transparency.
Lack of Data Management
No Processes
Reactive decision-making
Lack of Data Management
It starts with data — the language building systems use to communicate vital information about operations. Without data, we’re left in the dark. But too much data can also pose a problem by overwhelming both the system and system operators. With so many devices and applications at work within modern buildings, facility operators may now find themselves battling a serious case of data fatigue.
No Processes
Gathering data is essential, but it’s also just the first step. Making data usable requires a structured process to identify, prioritize, and act on relative system information. Without the right people, processes and technology the problem of data fatigue compounds, leading to confusion instead of clarity.
Reactive decision-making
When data overwhelms rather than informs, leaders are forced to fall back on reactive decision-making to address immediate needs and forgo proactive workflows that anticipate issues and prioritize actions. By focusing on short-term solutions, reactive workflows impede long-term strategic thinking and can result in increased operational expenditures and energy costs, workforce staffing issues, aging infrastructure and equipment, and negative occupant experience. Remove from a cost to ...transform your building from a liability to an asset. Results instead of Result.
SOLUTION
But with the right approach, you can cut through the noise to transform your building from a liability to an asset. At Siemens, we call this the Holistic Service Methodology.
Holistic Service Methodology
Results
Transparency
Holistic Service Methodology
Here’s how it works: the Holistic Methodology understands your building as a system made up of three core components of environmental controls: mechanical equipment, Building Management Station, and the network interconnecting them. When an issue affects one of these components, it impacts all of them, resulting in facility issues that can threaten business continuity. So it’s essential to ensure the health and efficiency of all three systems together over their entire life cycles. In addition to controlling environmental factors, these systems are also the primary contributors of building data. Connecting them through a holistic service strategy opens the opportunity to add a process to data management that gives you a clear view of your organization.
Results
The end result of a holistic service methodology is TRANSPARENCY across operations that allows your organization to understand what your building is really saying.
Transparency
Organizational transparency transforms how building systems are managed, starting by bringing light to data so you can see operations clearly. Adding a process to data allows you to respond to problems quickly. And finally, when data informs it can be leveraged to make decisions proactively. Together, these advantages help organizations to improve workforce efficiency, consistency of operations and energy spend, and extend equipment life cycles.
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