CORMS
Operational Changes
The CORMS approach looks at alternative ways to deliver a more effective service to Facility Management in terms of cost, reliability and efficiency.
The ideals supporting this strategy are defined by the values of providing timely maintenance when and if required and not as part of a fixed routine:
- Pumps, Motors and fans will not be greased or oiled routinely but as requested by CORMS equipment;
- Filters will be replaced when clogged not as part of a calendar based routine;
- Generators, transformers and chillers will not need to be serviced every 6 months but regulated by fluid sampling;
- Electrical switchgear will be thermo graphically inspected reducing the need to shut down panels to every 5 years
Statutory maintenance will remain a requirement and undertaken on a routine basis. Nonstatutory maintenance will be defined separately dependant on CORMS measures undertaken if the equipment can be categorised under CORMS.
The view that any technology can replace human expertise is fundamentally flawed, the technology being introduced is to aid the engineer and effectively promote early warning defences against dramatic failure.
By having a properties operating CORMS the owners and managers will have greater information / control as a result of:
- Building operations being capable of status reporting, the building's health is immediately visible, operational status increases as equipment reports back, reducing the cost and disruption of major failures;
- The BMS managing and interrogating from a single point, providing remote modifications and interrogation, the complete network is capable of self-monitoring and alerting, routine maintenance is not required.
- Energy reporting to drive energy savings out, quickly and efficiently dealing with noncompliance
The site maintenance team will be provided with the tools and training to understand the significance of:
- Early warning indicators of failing plant before the catastrophic system failure stage;
- Fast alarm alerting of systems;
- Energy monitoring of site power, gas and water consumption
