Search BMS & Controls Documentation with AI
Building management system documentation — points lists, controls strategies, cause-and-effect schedules, and commissioning data — is dense and hard to navigate. PM Assist makes it searchable so engineers can find point references, setpoints, and control logic instantly.
Why BMS documentation is hard to use
BMS and controls documentation is some of the most technical and least accessible material in a building's records. Points lists can run to thousands of rows, controls strategies describe complex sequences, and cause-and-effect schedules define how systems interact in normal and fire conditions. The information is invaluable when diagnosing a control problem or planning a change — and notoriously slow to find within large PDF documents.
Engineers often resort to interrogating the live BMS instead, which shows the current state but not the design intent or the documented strategy.
What PM Assist can find in BMS documents
PM Assist searches the text content of your controls documentation so the detail an engineer needs is quick to locate.
- Find a point reference and its description in the points list
- Retrieve the controls strategy for a specific plant item
- Locate cause-and-effect details for fire and normal operation
- Surface documented setpoints and control parameters
- Find commissioning data and controls as-built information
Complementing the live BMS
The live BMS shows what the system is doing now; the documentation explains how it is meant to work and why. PM Assist makes that design intent searchable, so when an engineer is troubleshooting a control issue or planning a modification, they can quickly cross-reference the documented strategy against what the BMS is actually doing. This pairs naturally with maintaining the BMS head-end and field controllers, where understanding the documented strategy is essential.
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Search your BMS documentation with AI
Upload points lists, controls strategies, and commissioning data and find control detail in seconds.
- Upload and organise building documentation
- AI-powered search across all your manuals
- Source-cited answers for every query
- Team collaboration and access control
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