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"We’ve Fallen Down on Our Assets"
Author: Sabrina Hebeler
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: September/October 2021

Leaders of many facilities organizations (likely including you) are drowning in the number of assets that need to be tagged, located, and tracked in a way that provides comprehensive data to make better strategic, financial, and operational decisions. Facilities organizations comprise fixers, perfectionists, and problem solvers. It only makes sense that when we set out to do something, the desire is to have it done the right way, the first time. Perfect is the only option. However, applying that mindset to data collection on assets is a painstaking process at best. The successes are often measured in small chunks and on new construction where clean, new data exists. Those brownfield facilities continue to wait for attention, and the backlog along with them. In the meantime, the assets get older, and what started off as a somewhat manageable challenge has turned into one riddled with many more issues. This article delves into the many issues facing facilities assets, and how to address them.

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