Facility

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Facility ( English "institution" ) is the anglicized for a subject , with the help of certain services administered is.

General

In particular, technical systems , facilities , infrastructure or operating and business equipment of a property , equipment, work equipment or energy come into consideration as objects . They only become a facility through a value-preserving service process - facility management - so they are initially not a facility per se. The management of these objects takes place in a facility management ( facility management ). A CAFM system is often used as IT support .

history

The US Air Force was 1952, the Pan-American World Services - a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways - the order , the facilities of the Eastern Test Range to operate, manage and provide for their maintenance. Only with this order did the facilities become a facility; It was obviously the first facility management ever.

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Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Dieter Lochmann / Rainer Köllgen (eds.), Facility Management - Strategic Real Estate Management in Practice , 1998, p. 44