Solutions

• An EMS Introduction
• Vertex® Software
• Suite Package
• Facility Asset Management
• IT Services

What is EMS?

EMS (Engineered Management System) standards were originally established by the U.S. Air Force and have been updated and further documented by organizations such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International and the U.S. Department of Defense.

The EMS approach uses life-cycle degradation curves based on empirical data that correlates the observed asset condition with its age for different categories of facility components to more accurately predict Remaining Service Life.

Why Choose Vertex?

The difference between Vertex and other facility decision support tools is that Vertex is based in the engineered calculation of condition indices (CIs), which provide objective, verifiable, and repeatable defect data. While, other programs rely solely on the facility condition index (FCI) developed for the educational market and are typically referred to as Capital Planning Management Systems (CPMS). 

Vertex allows our clients the capability of modeling:

• Short-term and long-term maintenance
• Repair and replacement (MR&R) plans to generate capital budgeting
• Capital project plans driven from an optimized analysis of ROI

Vertex produces a measurable return on the organization’s mission and can serve as the focal point for managing the financial investment in a facilities asset management program. Vertex is based on data that can be generated from a combination of three levels of specificity for:

• Mission Critical Facilities - facility condition assessments are conducted for all mission critical facilities
• Less Important Facilities - data can be modeled from a sample of facility condition assessments of less critical facilities
• Non-Mission Critical Facilities - data can be modeled from existing facility information regarding facility type, age, systems, etc.

This allows our clients to reduce the cost of data collection by using a combination of these methods to meet their requirements.