Facility Management Industrial

Facility Management applied to the industrial world is not new, but it has not been identified until

recently with the discipline of Facility Management. We understand Facility Management as:

The management of material resources and support services necessary for the development of

the activities of a company or organization, contributing to the business objectives.

(definition of the Catalan Association of Facility Management ACFM www.acfm.es)

But this is not only a local definition. If we see the ISO definition for Facility Management

we have that the FM is the “organizational function that integrates people, places and processes within the built environment with the purpose of improving people's quality of life and productivity of the main business".

We already see that we are referring to a global scale applicable to EVERY company or organization. By both FM techniques are applicable to the industry for the improvement and optimization of the management of NON-CORE BUSINESS activities. Following this trend worldwide, new profiles are needed with greater capacities that we will comment on in this article.

Industrial maintenance is a very important part of the activity of a Facility Manager industrial, but its activity goes beyond that as can be seen in the table below.