Autodesk FM

[#1]

http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=428

Developing Facilities Plans with Revit
Chargeback Reports: From CAD Dwgs to Database Reports
Enterprise Integration with FM Processes
Tips and Tricks for FM
DWF and Effective Facility Information Mgmt
How to Win Executive Support for Facility Automation
Reduce the Overall Costs of Managing Your Assets
How to Publish Building Information to the Web Using MapGuide
The Facility Manager's Dream
Model for Managing FM
Build a Graphical Facility Phone Directory
dbConnect for FM
Intro to dbConnect for FM

These are all of the FM specific courses, way better stuff than in the past,
and last year there was an industry meeting just for FM for the first time,
hopefully it will be bigger and better this year.

Check out the rest of the class offerings. I've been for the past four
years, and even when there hasn't been FM stuff of interest to me there is
enough general design, cad management, and standards management stuff to
keep me busy.
http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=0

Thanks,
Melanie Stone
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/

[#2]

Drat...
I was looking forward to asking you what you thought of the expanded FM track, but you've already seen it and posted kind words!

It was a bit of work to get this many slots. (And I don't deserve the credit for it -- someone else did the tough negotiations.) But I think it will make for a rewarding conference for facility managers of all kinds.

I hope I get to see you there!

Mark Evans
Autodesk

[#3]

Just got my approval yesterday... he could hardly refuse since the
classes offered are right up my alley...

sooo... while you're here (realizing getting all these slots for such a
small discipline was a hassle)... I've selected classes for each time slot,
and couldn't help but notice that the first day there are 4 fm classes
offered in two times slots... why don't we just get wild and crazy (and try
to move heaven and earth) and reschedule FM11-2 and FM12-1 to run from
8-11:30 on Friday?

I don't want to miss any classes, and honestly, friday's class offerings
don't really interest me at all. pretty, pretty, pretty please...

wrote in message news:4925415@discussion.autodesk.com...
Drat...
I was looking forward to asking you what you thought of the expanded FM
track, but you've already seen it and posted kind words!

It was a bit of work to get this many slots. (And I don't deserve the credit
for it -- someone else did the tough negotiations.) But I think it will
make for a rewarding conference for facility managers of all kinds.

I hope I get to see you there!

Mark Evans
Autodesk

[#4]

Interesting... I hadn't noticed that the schedule changed from the earlier versions. I'm sure there were very good reasons for doubling up, and I doubt they will be changed. There are no slots on Friday. The conference closes on Thursday. But I will make sure the scheduling folks see your request.

Mark

[#5]

D'oh, sorry, I meant thursday. ~sheepish~ I'm on past-au autopilot.

Thanks for passing my request along, I'll keep my fingers crossed but won't
hold my breath.

Nice hearing from you again, Mark.

~m

wrote in message news:4926288@discussion.autodesk.com...
Interesting... I hadn't noticed that the schedule changed from the earlier
versions.

I'm sure there were very good reasons for doubling up, and I doubt they will
be changed. There are no slots on Friday. The conference closes on Thursday.
But I will make sure the scheduling folks see your request.

Mark

[#6]

Here are the course descriptions for the fm classes (hope my copy/paste
comes out ok)

FM11-2: Chargeback Reports: From CAD Drawings to Database Report
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 08:00 AM
End Time: 09:30 AM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: When budget time comes around, one of the goals of any
facility manager is to produce a chargeback report. This session will
analyze all the elements required to produce chargeback reports. We will
uncover the mystique surrounding the ANSI/BOMA and IFMA documents defining
Standard Methods for Measuring Floor Area. We will use AutoCAD 2006 to
define the methods for outlining the spaces using Polyline as the space
boundaries. Once defined, these boundaries can be linked to a database using
a third-party CAFM solution.


Topics Covered
-Terminology: what is a chargeback report? What are room types and why
are they Important?
- Uncovering the mystique of BOMA and IFMA documents
- Explanation of Standards of Measurement
-Creating space boundaries using Polylines or Autodesk Architectural
Desktop Spaces


Who Should Attend
Anyone in the Facility Management looking for a better understanding
of chargeback reports and the BOMA Standards of Measurement.
Speaker(s): Bill Kilp

FM11-1: Developing Facilities Plans with Autodesk Revit
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 08:00 AM
End Time: 09:30 AM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: This course will lay out the capabilities of Revit as a
facilities planning system. You'll learn how to create space plans, employee
tracking, and creating charge-back analysis from the data.


Topics Covered
- Space planning
- Employee designators
- Setting up data
- Pulling data out of the software
- Creating useable information from the data


Who Should Attend
Revit users wanting to understand how to use the software as a
facilities application.
Speaker(s): Denise Cahill

FM12-1: Enterprise Integration of Facility Management Processes
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 11:30 AM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: Facility and operations costs account for the largest
line items on the annual report after employee costs, yet the process of
capturing and optimizing this information in the suite or ERP products
remains as much an art as a science. This session examines a series of case
studies of ERP integration with SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ARCHIBUS, Maximo,
and Data Stream to discuss techniques, results, and best practices. The
strengths and suitability of best-of-breed, integrated suites, and Web
service approaches are compared.


Topics Covered
- Facility management information and enterprise process improvement
- Critical areas for integration
- Breaking down the information â?okingdomsâ?
- Successful integration techniques
- Case studies of successful integrations


Who Should Attend
real estate and facility managers
Speaker(s): Steve Segarra

FM12-2: Tips and Tricks for FM
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 11:30 AM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: Missing


Topics Covered
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Who Should Attend
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Speaker(s):
FM13-1: DWF and Effective Facility Information Management
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 01:00 PM
End Time: 02:30 PM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: Learn how to unleash the power of DWF to address the
facility information management and documentation needs of your
organization. Learn how embedded Autodesk technologies can provide an
end-to-end solution for CAD operators, administrators, and others
responsible for the management and dissemination of facility information.
DWF provides the catalyst to bring facility drawings and data together in an
easy-to-access format.


Topics Covered
- DWF: not just a pretty picture
- Publishing your facility drawings and data
- Using drawings to manage your facility information
- Dynamic reporting for the common man
- Sharing drawings and data with nontechnical staff


Who Should Attend
Facility managers, administrators, and CAD operators responsible for
the management of facility information and documentation.
Speaker(s): Robert Fahlin

FM14-1: How to Win Executive Management Support for Facility
Automation
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 03:00 PM
End Time: 04:30 PM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: In today's competitive climate, every organization has
efficiency as an essential goal. At the facility department, you manage the
infrastructure that supports each business process. Yet the support you need
for streamlining those processes are sometimes hard to come by. This session
looks at how to understand management's perspective and needs, how to
express the process optimization results in terms of those needs, how to
express the strategic value of corporate real estate and facility
management, and how to establish the trust you need to get sign off on your
projects. This case-study style session discusses the use of pilot projects,
how to get early wins, how to involving all stakeholders, and how to
demonstrate and internally market your results.


Topics Covered
- Understanding executive management
- Explaining the strategic value of facility and infrastructure
management
- What makes a good, and a bad, pilot project
- Techniques for involving stakeholders
- Internally marketing your results


Who Should Attend
Facility, GIS, and project managers looking to gain support for
process automation
Speaker(s): Chris Keller

FM15-1: Reduce the overall cost of managing your assets
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 05:00 PM
End Time: 06:30 PM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: By implementing an Infrastructure Data Maintenance
Program (IDMP) that will maximize your existing investment in people,
software, and data while taking advantage of Autodesk technologies, you can
reduce the overall cost of managing your assets. Using AutoCAD and MapGuide,
you can simplify the inventory, creation, and maintenance of your graphic
asset information in conjunction with existing engineering documents that
will be available to decision-makers via the Web and company intranets.


Topics Covered
- Locate and inventory your existing assets
- Create base maps.
- Design a database
- Create a data maintenance process.
- Create a website as the central access point for obtaining
information about your assets.


Who Should Attend
Individuals responsible for keeping information accurate, up-to-date,
and easy to access for cost-effective decision-making
Speaker(s): Bill Kimbrell

FM21-1: How to Publish Building Information to the Web Using Autodesk
MapGuide
Session Type: 3.5 hr. Class
Date: November 29
Start Time: 08:00 AM
End Time: 11:30 AM
Expertise: Basic
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: The Autodesk MapGuide product suite includes all the
tools you need to publish building information to the Web. This session will
help you harness the power of MapGuide for your own needs. We'll use
practical examples to discuss the MapGuide API, ColdFusion, HTML,
JavaScript, and a variety of MapGuide-related application development
techniques. With a focus on Facilities Management (FM), we'll demonstrate
tips and tricks for data loading, authoring, designing web pages and dynamic
reports, and customizing application menus. This course is designed for
existing MapGuide users and anyone working in the facilities management
domain who is interested in learning how to develop custom applications for
Autodesk MapGuide.


Topics Covered
- Review scope definition, design, and development
- Development aspects including HTML, JavaScript, ColdFusion, MapGuide


Who Should Attend
oUsers working in the FM domain with an interest in Autodesk MapGuide
Speaker(s): Michael Schlosser

FM22-1: ADT2006: The Facility Manager's Dream
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 29
Start Time: 05:00 PM
End Time: 06:30 PM
Expertise: Intermediate
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: The combination of new ADT2006 features, such as Display
Themes and Database Fields, link with ADT Areas, Spaces and Scheduling to
make the software a formidable out-of-box solution for Facility Managers.
This session will demonstrate how easily room booking, asset tracking and
lease/chargeback data can be linked into ADT2006 without complex programming
or recourse to third-party applications.


Topics Covered
Adding your database records to your ADT Property Sets.
Creating a simple room booking system with ADT2006 and MS Access.
Presenting visual Space Analysis Reports with ADT Display Themes and
Property Sets.
Asset Tracking with ADT2006.
Distributing your reports with DWF.


Who Should Attend
Space Planners; Asset and Facility Managers and Asset Owners who want
to maximize the use ADT as an out-of-box facility management tool.
Speaker(s): David Shepherd

FM31-1: An Enterprise Wide Model for Managing Facility Management
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 30
Start Time: 08:00 AM
End Time: 09:30 AM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: Today's business environment demands that organizations
have rapid access to a variety of business unit information including
accurate and up-to-date information about facilities. As stewards of an
organization's facilities, FM's responsibility now extends to making FM
information available to its customers across the company. This session will
identify successful strategies for implementing enterprise-wide facility
management systems while touching on issues such as business requirements,
common process development, and information sharing. This class will benefit
facility management executives and professionals, FM CAD and IT managers, as
well as the service providers who work with building owners. Attendees
should have general knowledge of FM roles.


Topics Covered
- The opportunities for information management (IT) in FM
- Successful strategies for leveraging and implementing FMIT
- The role that drawings play in the FMIT solution
- Examples and case studies of FMIT implementation
- The potential for BIM as part of the FMIT solution


Who Should Attend
Facility management executives and professionals and the IT and AEC
service providers that work with them
Speaker(s): David Jordani

FM32-1L: People, People, Everywhere: Build your own graphical facility
Phone Directory with DWF.
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Lab
Date: November 30
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 11:30 AM
Expertise: Intermediate
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: Utilize your Autodesk facility floor plan data and free
DWF technology to create a custom "People Finder" phone directory. With free
and easy-to-use tools, you can create a web-based employee search tool that
combines your enterprise drawings with other corporate databases. Once built
into your company intranet, employees can find conference rooms, printers,
offices, and other locations with the click of a mouse. Learn how to
customize DWF for various facilities management tasks. (Some HTML scripting
and basic programming knowledge recommended for this course.)


Topics Covered
- Building a graphical phone directory with DWF
- Using the free DWF Viewer in an HTML page
- Linking databases to DWF
- Linking DWF to databases
- Using JavaScript to control the DWF Viewer
- Using AutoCAD scripts to augment DWF data


Who Should Attend
Facilities managers, web developers (HTML/JavaScript), software
developers (LISP)
Speaker(s): Brian Mathews

FM33-1: dbConnect for Facilities Management
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 30
Start Time: 01:00 PM
End Time: 02:30 PM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: Facilities Management is a complex, multifaceted
industry. It is no surprise that commercial off-the-shelf software tools
geared toward FM tend to be equally complex, and often demand large learning
curves. For many of us, however, AutoCADâ?Ts built-in dbConnect
functionality provides a suitable alternative, which meets the needs of the
average facilities manager. This class will provide an introduction to
dbConnect, and will show how this technology can be used to accomplish
specific FM tasks. We will explore the built-in capabilities of the
dbConnect user interface, as well as demonstrate some simple, yet powerful
custom macros that offer more advanced functionality.


Topics Covered
- dbConnect user interface
- Linking up a database
- Performing queries
- Managing changes


Who Should Attend
Facility managers who are using AutoCAD and an external database for
asset management
Speaker(s): Scott McFarlane

FM34-1L: Introduction to dbConnect for Facilities Management
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Lab
Date: November 30
Start Time: 03:00 PM
End Time: 04:30 PM
Expertise: Basic
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: This hands-on lab will give you a jump-start into the
world of database connectivity. Learn how to set up a database connection,
create links, and turn your drawing into a powerful interface to your
database. Explore the dbConnect Manager and the Data View window and create
intelligent annotation using Labels. Create simple and even complex queries
with the Query Editor.


Topics Covered
- Setting up the dbConnect environment in an FM context
- Using the dbConnect tools to assist in asset management tasks.


Who Should Attend
Facility managers who are using AutoCAD and an external database for
asset management
Speaker(s): Scott McFarlane


"melanie stone" wrote in message
news:4922648@discussion.autodesk.com...
http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=428

Developing Facilities Plans with Revit
Chargeback Reports: From CAD Dwgs to Database Reports
Enterprise Integration with FM Processes
Tips and Tricks for FM
DWF and Effective Facility Information Mgmt
How to Win Executive Support for Facility Automation
Reduce the Overall Costs of Managing Your Assets
How to Publish Building Information to the Web Using MapGuide
The Facility Manager's Dream
Model for Managing FM
Build a Graphical Facility Phone Directory
dbConnect for FM
Intro to dbConnect for FM

These are all of the FM specific courses, way better stuff than in the past,
and last year there was an industry meeting just for FM for the first time,
hopefully it will be bigger and better this year.

Check out the rest of the class offerings. I've been for the past four
years, and even when there hasn't been FM stuff of interest to me there is
enough general design, cad management, and standards management stuff to
keep me busy.
http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=0

Thanks,
Melanie Stone
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/

[#7]

Alright, AU begins on Monday!

All 5 timeslots on Monday are FM-Geared classes!!! WOOT!

Tuesday morning as well... (for mapguide, which I don't have, but, would
still like
to learn about).
Tuesday afternoon is the FM industry session which I am looking forward
to...
There is also a mixer in the evening (way to make us feel special and a very
nice
guesture from autodesk)... which I won't be attending due to prior
obligations.

I've got 3 more FM classes on Wednesday, with the 'birds of a feather'
lunch,
erm, I suppose we're supposed to flock together or something.

Thursday, the classes are lame and I'm playing hooky...

Come up and say 'hi' to me there! I want to meet some FM people (that are
not trying to sell me something)!

I have introduced myself to a few FM'ers via the AU Connect website, way
cool
idea there deskers!!! and hope to run into them, and others during classes.

"melanie stone" wrote in message
news:4922648@discussion.autodesk.com...
http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=428

Developing Facilities Plans with Revit
Chargeback Reports: From CAD Dwgs to Database Reports
Enterprise Integration with FM Processes
Tips and Tricks for FM
DWF and Effective Facility Information Mgmt
How to Win Executive Support for Facility Automation
Reduce the Overall Costs of Managing Your Assets
How to Publish Building Information to the Web Using MapGuide
The Facility Manager's Dream
Model for Managing FM
Build a Graphical Facility Phone Directory
dbConnect for FM
Intro to dbConnect for FM

These are all of the FM specific courses, way better stuff than in the past,
and last year there was an industry meeting just for FM for the first time,
hopefully it will be bigger and better this year.

Check out the rest of the class offerings. I've been for the past four
years, and even when there hasn't been FM stuff of interest to me there is
enough general design, cad management, and standards management stuff to
keep me busy.
http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=0

Thanks,
Melanie Stone
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/

[#8]

nevermind that...
The FM industry session (the first one was last year talking about the
development work autodesk is doing for Facilities Management) has been
folded back into the BSD (building solutions division). The hosts of the FM
session are listed as co-presenters in the BSD meeting.

I do hope anyone who is going will be attending the FM mixer a little later
on that evening. I'm going to guess the presentation put on during that
mixer is the reason the industry session was folded back in with the rest.

"melanie stone" wrote in message
news:5019255@discussion.autodesk.com...

Tuesday afternoon is the FM industry session which I am looking forward
to...

[#9]

Yes, sorry about that! It simply became impossible for Brian and I to do both the BSD Industry Session and the FM Industry Session at the same time.

And we added the Tuesday evening event in order to expand on what we covered in the BSD Industry Session.

[#10]

Mark, Hello! Sorry I missed seeing you this year... your coworkers were
great though, had some fun with them. I'm sad that I wasn't able to make it
to the meeting that night, with some forewarning next year, though, I won't
miss it!

The FM track was pretty impressive this year, and I appreciate all of the
effort that must have gone into it behind the scenes.

oh, I see another post from you in here... I suppose I'll save most of my
comments for that thread.

~m

wrote in message news:5028412@discussion.autodesk.com...
Yes, sorry about that! It simply became impossible for Brian and I to do
both the BSD Industry Session and the FM Industry Session at the same time.

And we added the Tuesday evening event in order to expand on what we covered
in the BSD Industry Session.