Digital asset inventory
Everything you have, where it is and in what condition
We register all the assets of your building or plant in the BIM model.
Equipment, facilities, construction elements. With its technical sheets, location and online platform 24/7.
What is digital inventory of BIM assets and how it works in practice
The digital inventory of BIM assets is the record of all the elements of a building or facility —equipment, facilities, construction elements— linked to the 3D model of the asset. Each element has its technical sheet, its exact location in space and its history of interventions. Everything accessible from any device, without installing software, through the web platform.
The difference compared to an inventory in Excel or on paper is the spatial location. When there is a breakdown, you don’t have to search for the equipment in a list: you locate it in the 3D model of the building, with all its technical information in one click. That localization time that can take hours with traditional documentation is reduced to seconds with digital inventory of BIM assets.
Inventory can be connected directly to your existing CMMS system: SAP PM, IBM Maximo, Ultimo and others. The information is not duplicated: it flows between the model and the maintenance system.
Do any of these situations sound familiar to you?
When there is a fault, locating the failing item can take hours.
Maintenance contracts are renewed without knowing the real state of the equipment.
Digital asset inventory: what it includes and how it works in practice
The digital asset inventory links each element of the building or plant —equipment, facilities, construction elements— to its technical sheet within the BIM model.
When there is a breakdown, instead of searching through folders or calling the technician who installed the equipment eight years ago, you open the model, locate the item in space and you have its file: manufacturer, model, installation date, last service, documentation technical and contact for technical service.
The inventory connects to your existing CMMS system. It is not a parallel tool: it is the basis from which your maintenance system works with real data instead of estimates.
Frequently asked questions
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ContactNo. If the building or facility does not have a BIM model, we create it as a first step from 3D laser scanning. In many cases, digital inventory is the first BIM project that the client does.
If a model already exists —even if it is a project model and does not reflect exactly what exists now— we update it with the as-built data before linking the asset inventory.
We design the inventory to be compatible with your existing maintenance management system. The code and data structure is defined from the beginning with export to your CMMS in mind: SAP PM, IBM Maximo, Ultimo, Hippo and other common systems in industrial and tertiary environments.
If your CMMS has a specific data structure, you provide it to us and we adapt the inventory to it. The goal is for information to flow between the model and your system without manually entering it twice.
Inventory can be updated in two ways. The first is through a new partial scan of the modified zone, which generates the updated data for the affected assets. The second is by manually updating the files of new or modified assets from the web platform.
No update requires specialized software. Everything is managed from a browser, from any device.
As a general guideline: a medium-sized office building or hotel with 500–800 assets can have its inventory fully completed in 4–6 weeks from the start of the project, including data capture and modeling.
For industrial plants with a larger number of assets and greater technical complexity, the timeframe is longer. We always include a project plan with milestones and delivery dates in our proposal.
Do you manage a building or plant without reliable inventory?
Tell us how many assets there are and what maintenance system you use.
