As any facility owner or manager knows, the list of tasks to maintain optimal functionally is endless. When any of those tasks fall off the radar, it can quickly become a more costly problem that leads to safety issues, downtimes, and even more costly failures. This is why a Scheduled Maintenance Plan is so important.
What is Scheduled Maintenance?
Scheduled maintenance is a list of routinely performed maintenance tasks that are assigned to a technician and scheduled to be performed within a certain timeline. These tasks are frequently determined as part of a greater Facility Maintenance Plan. Scheduled maintenance includes inspections, adjustments, regular service, and planned shutdowns.
What is a Facility Maintenance Program
A facility maintenance plan is a comprehensive overview of the systems that govern your facilities and the practices for keeping it running. Within a Facility Maintenance Program includes several general types of maintenance philosophies or approaches, namely corrective, preventive, risk-based, and condition-based maintenance that can generally be incorporated into the Scheduled Maintenance Plan.
What is the Purpose of Scheduled Maintenance?
Scheduled Maintenance is carried out at predetermined intervals or according to prescribed criteria. The purpose of scheduling maintenance is to reduce the failure risk or performance degradation of the built environment. It allows you to identify critical assets, maintain them, reduce faults and failures, and ensure their intended lifespan. It also helps allocate maintenance hours based on the asset’s nature and gauge replacement needs.
What Are the Advantages of Scheduled Maintenance Plans?
Every facility needs regular maintenance to maintain the assets’ safety, compliance, and longevity. Here are the 6 Top Benefits of a Regularly Scheduled Maintenance Plan.
Proactively Identify Issues
Regular maintenance provides regular oversight of your facility assets, enabling proactive identification of problems at their earliest stages.
Prevent More Costly Repairs
Timely, routine repairs circumvent fewer large-scale repairs. Scheduled Facility Maintenance prevents small preventable problems from accumulating and compounding into large-scale problems that impact the system’s functionality.
Improved Asset Conservation
Scheduled Maintenance Plans provide better conservation of assets and increased life expectancy of assets, which eliminates the need for the premature replacement of parts, materials, machinery, and equipment.
Decreased Equipment Downtime
With improved asset conservation, equipment downtime is significantly decreased. This improves overall operational efficiency.
Reduced Overtime Costs
Another important advantage is reduced overtime costs and more economical use of maintenance workers due to working on a scheduled basis instead of a crash or crisis basis to repair breakdowns. Maintenence hours are used and deployed more efficiently.
Improved Safety
Regularly scheduled maintenance improves the safety conditions for facility visitors and occupants by providing regular care and oversight over the facility environment.
Facility Maintenance Near Me?
Are you looking for a facility maintenance firm in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Francisco, or surrounding counties in California? Sierra Group is a multi-disciplined service-focused company specializing in commercial Facilities Management, serving most parts of California, Dallas/Fort Worth & Surrounding Communities, and Houston & Surrounding Communities in Texas.
Our highly skilled field technicians offer a wide range of services and are ready to help with projects of all scopes or with our ongoing preventative maintenance programs.
About Sierra Group
Sierra Group is a service-focused company specializing in Commercial Construction, Electronic Security, and Facility Services. Our highly skilled field technicians offer a wide range of services and are ready to help with projects of all scopes or with our ongoing preventative maintenance programs.
When failure is not an option, the most demanding organizations trust Sierra Group to get the job done right.
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