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KENEXOS® digitization software from Kreutzpointner sister company KBS successfully in use at airport and municipality

Munich/Burghausen. A veritable jungle of information accompanies the administration and, in particular, the maintenance of facilities and properties in a wide range of sectors: For digitization officers, e.g. from industry, municipalities, clinics or the real estate industry and administration, digitizing information and bringing it together digitally is a huge challenge. Kreutzpointner Business Software (KBS) has tackled precisely this problem with the development and practical use of its KENEXOS® mobile software for digitized and automated business processes.

KBS, with sites in Munich and Burghausen, is a sister company of the Kreutzpointner Elektrotechnik Group (1,300 employees, annual turnover of around 150 million euros). “With the development of our KENEXOS® connectivity platform, we were able to create an extremely practical overview in the jungle of digital information for the construction and plant management sector,” explain Stefan Kurz and Christian Ehrenschwendtner, the two Managing Directors of KBS. “With KENEXOS®, all the information required for management and maintenance is brought together in one place – via a cloud-based platform, i.e. without installation on a PC or in a data center. This means that external service partners can also be integrated very easily.”

“Checkbook maintained” properties
Countless documents and high-resolution plans are available on your cell phone or tablet, even offline. On-site faults can be reported and documented directly to the responsible person via theKENEXOS® app. By storing the building or system structure including technical equipment in KENEXOS®, service intervals for subcontractors can be generated automatically. “With many other advantages, KENEXOS® users can virtually have a property checkbook,” says KBS Managing Director Ehrenschwendtner.
The mobile software for digitized and automated business processes in construction and facility management has been successfully used since last year by two KBS customers who could not be more different, but who nevertheless have one thing in common: At Munich Airport and at the city of Burghausen in the field of technical facility management. As a digitalization platform, KENEXOS® has enabled a quantum leap in asset and property management for both of them.

In use at Munich Airport
The KENEXOS® approach also convinced those responsible for technical facility management at Munich Airport (FMG), which manages most of the buildings and outdoor facilities on the huge airport site. Thomas Goschütz (Head of Electrical Engineering) reports: “FMG has been using the KENEXOS® software for around a year for the documentation and commissioning of our subcontractors, especially in the area of electrical maintenance of our properties. KENEXOS® is currently used to manage all levels of parking garages P1 to P7 and all levels of modules A to E at Terminal 1,” says Thomas Goschütz. FMG’s aim is to extend the use of KENEXOS® to all buildings and subcontractors at the airport in the field of electrical engineering.

Die Flughafen München GmbH beabsichtigt die Ausweitung des KENEXOS®-Einsatzes auf alle Gebäude und Nachunternehmer des Flughafens im Bereich Elektrotechnik. (Foto: Flughafen München GmbH)

And at the town of Burghausen
KENEXOS® has also been running in technical building management at the town council in Burghausen since the end of 2023: “This includes around 80 municipal properties – e.g. from the town hall to the town hall, schools, kindergartens and community center to the toilet blocks,” says Alexander Huber, Head of Municipal Building Management. According to Anna Leitmann, digitization officer and head of the IT department of the city of Burghausen, “the extensive databases for the service plans, contracts and building structures, including subcontractor management, are currently being entered”. As soon as possible, all properties will then be managed via the Kreutzpointner software: “From 2025, we will have the initial database in KENEXOS® with all maintenance intervals stored in order to be able to manage all technical building equipment digitally,” says Anna Leitmann. The ongoing data entry phase will be supported by KBS so that the structure of the software can be flexibly adapted to individual requirements.

Alle rund 80 städtischen Liegenschaften der Stadt Burghausen sollen künftig mit der mobilen Software der KBS verwaltet werden: (von links) Alexander Huber und Michael Madl vom Gebäudemanagement der Stadt, Hochbau-Leiter Oliver Fischeneder und Digitalisierungs- und IT-Leiterin Anna Leitmann sind von den KENEXOS ®-Möglichkeiten begeistert.

Kreutzpointner Business Software GmbH (KBS) is part of the Kreutzpointner Group and has been operating from its locations in Munich/Riem and Burghausen since 2020. The company offers an expandable application platform with its own software products and focuses on the implementation of industrial applications. The KBS portfolio includes the development and worldwide distribution of software solutions for customers from a wide range of industrial sectors. All standard software modules in the KBS portfolio as well as customer-specific extensions are based on the central development and application platform “KENEXOS®” designed by Kreutzpointner as a data hub. KENEXOS® supports all project participants in all phases of a construction project and also in the operation of real estate and industrial plants. (planning – execution – operation). KENEXOS® is not only the solution for construction projects, but also the digitalization platform for construction, real estate and plant management with related topics such as occupational safety, associated safety tours, recording and analysis of unsafe behaviour and measures derived from this.

The Kreutzpointner Group is one of the largest medium-sized specialist companies in Germany for electrical engineering, switchgear construction, engineering, IT and solar. Kreutzpointner has been run as a family business since it was founded in 1923. The group consists of seven companies: Elektro Kreutzpointner GmbH with its headquarters in Burghausen/Lkr. Altötting and other locations in Bavaria, Kreutzpointner energy GmbH in Gangkofen/Lkr. Rottal-Inn, Automation Elektro Kreutzpointner GmbH in Freiberg/Saxony, Elektro Kreutzpointner Austria GmbH in Linz/Austria, Automation Elektro Kreutzpointner Romania S.R.L. in Brasov/Romania, Kreutzpointner Business Software GmbH in Munich and Vulidity GmbH in Burghausen. Around 1,300 employees in Germany, Austria and Romania work for the Kreutzpointner Group and its associated companies. The group primarily works for companies in the chemical, manufacturing, data center, mechanical engineering, medical care and pharmaceutical industries as well as for the public sector and generated sales of around 150 million euros in 2023. www.kreutzpointner.de

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