CORMS

Benefits

Property maintenance strategies should always focus on the operational requirement of the facility, and drive out costs and non-productive maintenance. The CORMS concept provides an instant view of properties using a bespoke network package based on SCADA technology, incorporating monitoring technology for designated equipment and systems.

The introduction of CORMS greatly enhances the engineering teams ability to provide a cost benefit analysis and critically review what needs maintaining and when.

CORMS is a non-intrusive method of maintenance for predicting performance failures, based on experience and knowledge gained from monitoring the condition of the equipment and systems.

Selected characteristics of the equipment and systems are constantly measured. Data is collected and analysed to predict a future point of failure or serious performance degradation. Corrective maintenance procedures are then defined planned and scheduled to ensure continuous operation and performance, which would have a significant implication to a service level agreement.

This approach optimises the maintenance activities, gaining maximum running time and preventing minor faults cumulating into major faults which could shorten the expected operational life of the of equipment and systems.

CORMS provides a criticality analysis tool for quantifying the impact of maintenance on the business processes and functions. Normally they are employed to identify highly critical plant items, critical and safety related items, for which the adoption of CORMS will be beneficial in terms of soft savings. However, they also highlight plant with a low criticality, where there may be scope for the reduction in maintenance so helping to target the maintenance effort, as well as assessing the impact in the terms of business.

Properties are required to operate longer and longer hours per week, operational impact needs to be minimalised, and breakdowns will no longer be accepted readily. A consistent standard of service delivery needs to be disseminated from a central point, benchmarked constantly across multiple users and service providers. Standards of engineering staff vary with the industry currently acknowledging a significant skills shortage in the building services arena.