Case Study: Carnegie Mellon University achieves faster, more accurate telecommunications CAD updates with ARCHIBUS

Creating a Self-Help Telecommunications Application at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University needed a faster, more accurate way to link its telecommunications inventory to CAD drawings and replace cumbersome Rich Text floor plans so staff and campus users could self-serve telecom information for maintenance, networking and scheduling. CAFM staff surveyed about 4,200 faceplates across residence buildings and set out to create a web-based, self-help telecommunications application that would make up-to-date jack and faceplate data readily available.

Using ARCHIBUS Telecommunications & Cable Management with the Overlay for AutoCAD and Web Central, the team captured data in the field (two laptops running ARCHIBUS), standardized symbols and color-coding, and published DWF drawings to the web where users can click faceplate icons to view details. The solution delivered cleaner, accurate CAD drawings, significant time savings (whole floors completed in hours), easier data maintenance by users, and increased productivity across departments.

Carnegie Mellon University

Kevin Ford

CAFM Administrator