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Field notes from buildings that had to keep running.

Written insight for the people who document, hand over and operate complex facilities. Long-form thinking, short explainers and a few honest arguments about what belongs in a handover package.

Published: 62 pieces
Topics: SIM-ON, STAGES, Case study, Events, Webinars, Company news, Partnerships
Written by: The SIMLAB platform team

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SIM-ON6 min read

More Control, Less Visual Noise: Smarter Asset Management in SIM-ON

SIM-ON gives facility teams more control over how assets are categorized, visually identified, and filtered directly within the 3D environment, helping users find relevant equipment faster without losing spatial context.

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TopicsAll (62)SIM-ON (8)STAGES (10)Case study (5)Events (18)Webinars (5)Company news (8)Partnerships (8)

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SIM-ON15 min read

The New SIM-ON Overlay: When a Building Portfolio Finally Works as One System

Managing one building is already a continuous flow of decisions. Managing ten, fifty, or several hundred buildings creates a different kind of challenge.

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Low-angle view of a modern glass office facade with wavy metal fins, with the SIM-ON and Matterport logos and the text "Transforming Building Operations"

SIM-ON8 min read

Digital Twin in Commercial Real Estate: When a Building Finally Starts to “Talk”

Managing a commercial property - an office, hotel, warehouse, or large service facility - often looks the same everywhere. Documents are scattered across different folders.

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Aerial view of a city construction site with yellow tower cranes and unfinished concrete buildings under a dark overlay, with Stages and Matterport logos at the top and the headline "Transforming Facility Management"

STAGES9 min read

Digital Twin in Facility Management - when handover is only the beginning (and how STAGES preserves the building’s truth)

Facility management is rarely one big project. It is hundreds of small decisions that add up to reliability: an issue that needs diagnosis, an audit that needs proof, a renovation that cannot rely on guesswork, a contractor who needs context without pulling your team into yet another round of site walks.

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Promotional graphic headed "AI-powered Asset Recognition": a tablet shows the SIM-ON 3D walk of a furnished office with an "Auto-Detect Assets" panel listing detected chairs, a painting and a switch, beside a red "Asset Management in Digital Twins" badge and a "Monitor" asset chip; a smiling grey-haired man in glasses holds a tablet on the right, with SIM-ON and "Powered by Matterport" logos at the bottom.

SIM-ON7 min read

AI Asset Recognition in SIM-ON: Turning Matterport Twins into Working Asset Systems

Keeping track of assets across multiple buildings is rarely as tidy as the org chart suggests.

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Promotional graphic for the Stages AR mobile app: the headline "New AR tool for on-site issue tracking" on a blue background, a smartphone showing a blue AR path across an office floor to an RFI marker, a "Draft RFI: Glass Partition End..." notification card, and a construction worker in a white hard hat and blue overalls looking at his phone.

STAGES6 min read

STAGES AR for Android: Precise, On-Site Note Localization with Native Augmented Reality

Three things matter most in construction management, facilities operations, and field maintenance: context, precision, and time. STAGES AR for Android is designed for exactly that.

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Case study10 min read

Case Study: Silesian University of Technology and SIMLAB - A Campus Digital Twin in Practice

The Silesian University of Technology is one of Poland’s leading technical universities, operating an extensive campus made up of dozens of teaching buildings, laboratories, and administrative facilities.

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