Client Property Maintenance
It is generally accepted that M&E services are over-designed to accommodate maintenance requirements and plant failures, which in turn adds significant build costs to installations. It is an industry-wide view that over maintaining equipment can serve to damage plant and as such is undesirable; the cost of replacement parts based on time not usage is wasteful and needs to be avoided.
The FM industry is in many aspects using maintenance strategies from the past. The traditional economic tool of a cost budget for each individual part of the organisation does not show the effect on the profit that maintenance has. The profit is there to be taken yet remains invisible to the decision makers. The real problem with maintenance, from an economic viewpoint, is that its costs are easily measured while its contributions to the revenues are not. “We can cut down on maintenance to save money” is an argument that is often cited but in most cases is misguided. Cuts in maintenance costs often lead to longterm problems elsewhere, so this kind of saving can become very expensive. Machines break down more often and unskilled labour creates new problems when they carry out inspections or repairs.
Today, it is not sufficient to be among the leaders within your own field. Investment capital looks for maximum returns, so you compete with every other company or division in the market. To meet the challenge, management must look to utilise new tools and strategies to develop efficient effective systems.
Against the backdrop of this environment, the clients brief is straightforward given the challenges of the property involved and the state of the industry that is being asked to support it. A dwindling supply of traditional skilled labour is being pulled in ever more directions by the ravenous demands of the over-heating construction markets of London and the South East in particular.
CORMS will provide year on year savings in:
- Energy usage;
- Maintenance-based costs;
- Extending and preserving asset life;
- Delivering significant uptime for building operations;
- Providing a maintenance strategy that is fit for purpose.
We believe that by predicting failures prior to a breakdown it becomes possible to reduce the requirement for standby services. By adopting an intelligent and proactive automated approach to maintenance a number of crucial short and long term benefits can be delivered including:
- More cost effective use of maintenance and engineering staff and substantially reduced risk of expensive plant/equipment failures;
- Measuring in real-time and making the information transparent to management to ensure the most cost effective decisions can be made;
- Plant alterations can now be operated from a central remote point, which not only gives client visibility of their entire plant, but the ability to effect changes remotely;
- Significantly reducing unplanned down-time and expensive reactive maintenance by capturing potential failure before catastrophic failure occurs, thus increasing reliability and availability of critical machinery;
- Using the energy monitoring controls allowing the property to meet energy reduction targets in the region of 20% per annum;
- Significantly reducing parts and labour costs, reduces damage to equipment, provides greater insight into plant operating pattern extends plant life, reduces catastrophic failures;
- When CORMS is applied to new build properties from day one, it has revealed on other installations that 80% of all pumps, fans and motors etc were either incorrectly installed or had damaged parts!
