Facility management system
First Claim
1. A system for managing the provision of facility management services by a service staff for a facility, comprising a plurality of rooms, that is occupied by at least one resident comprising:
- room layout means for storing data that catalogues a physical layout, listing the plurality of rooms contained in said facility;
inventory means for storing data that catalogues contents of said rooms contained in said facility; and
service definition means, responsive to said data that catalogues a physical layout listing the rooms contained in said facility, and said data that catalogues contents of said rooms contained in said facility, for defining a series of tasks to be performed by said service staff in said facility to maintain said rooms and said contents of said rooms.
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Abstract
The facility management system automatically generates information that is used to manage both a facility and the staff employed at the facility, with a high degree of integration and cross-correlation among the diverse attributes of the facility and services provided therein by the professional staff employed at the facility. The facility management system implements a multi-dimensional relational database to support the service delivery functions within a facility as well as the management of the physical plant that comprises the facility. The system identifies of all of the components of the facility, including structure architecture, components, contents and personal possessions of the residents and identifies all work that is to be done by the staff as well as by contractors. The work is defined in terms of Tasks that are linked to physical attributes of the facility as well as to staff to produce Task Sheets that are integrated coherent descriptions of Tasks that are assigned to Staff. The linking enables the efficient definition of Tasks in terms of physical locale, timeliness, elimination of redundancy of operation, minimization of work effort, thereby rendering the effecting of these Tasks economical. Each of the modules of the facility management system forges an information link with other information modules in the system to address the key issues of Who, What, Where, When to thereby enable the definition of the Tasks.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for managing the provision of facility management services by a service staff for a facility, comprising a plurality of rooms, that is occupied by at least one resident comprising:
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room layout means for storing data that catalogues a physical layout, listing the plurality of rooms contained in said facility;
inventory means for storing data that catalogues contents of said rooms contained in said facility; and
service definition means, responsive to said data that catalogues a physical layout listing the rooms contained in said facility, and said data that catalogues contents of said rooms contained in said facility, for defining a series of tasks to be performed by said service staff in said facility to maintain said rooms and said contents of said rooms. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for managing the provision of facility management services by a service staff for a facility, comprising a plurality of rooms, that is occupied by at least one resident comprising:
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storing room layout data that catalogues a physical layout, listing the plurality of rooms contained in said facility;
storing inventory data that catalogues contents of said rooms contained in said facility; and
defining, in response to said data that catalogues a physical layout listing the rooms contained in said facility, and said data that catalogues contents of said rooms contained in said facility, a series of tasks to be performed by said service staff in said facility to maintain said rooms and said contents of said rooms. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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