Energy Management How to Conduct a Commercial Energy Audit? A Step-By-Step Guide A commercial energy audit evaluates a building's energy use, identifies areas of inefficiency, and recommends energy-saving measures. The purpose is to reduce energy waste, save costs, and improve the building's energy efficiency.
Asset Management Featured Creating A Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) With Five Handy Steps Strategic asset management (SAM) is a top-down equipment management framework for long-term maintenance and operation planning. This approach prioritizes long-term physical asset investments while balancing capital and operational expenditure from a total expenditure (TOTEX) standpoint.
Connected CMMS Attaining Optimal Production Efficiency With a Rigid Plant Maintenance Strategy Plant maintenance is a crucial aspect of any industry or factory that ensures machinery and equipment function properly. Without regular maintenance, your assets can break down and cause costly downtime.
Maintenance Management Autonomous Maintenance (AM): Meaning, Benefits, 7 Steps to Implement Autonomous maintenance (AM) relies on giving front-line employees the responsibility for maintaining and keeping track of equipment to improve reliability and decrease maintenance costs.
Guest Post Digital Transformation Guide for Commercial Real Estate Businesses In 2023, digital transformation is critical for CREs to meet the evolving expectations from occupants, boards, and compliance authorities. With the fast-paced changes in technology, increasing competition in the market and the evolving nature of demands from CREs, companies that do not adapt, die.
Connected CMMS Reducing Reactive Maintenance and Backlogs with Scheduled Maintenance (+ How a CMMS Solution Helps!) Scheduled maintenance refers to routine equipment servicing and systems, usually performed at regular intervals, to ensure they continue functioning properly and to identify and address any potential problems before they become serious.
Building Operations & Maintenance Make Buildings Smart with a BOS and Cloud-Supervisory Platform The primary role of a building operating system (BOS) is to control and monitor the mechanical, electrical, and communication systems in a building to provide a comfortable, safe, and efficient environment for the occupants.
Maintenance Management What is PSSR? PSSR is an essential part of the commissioning process for new facilities and equipment and is also used when existing facilities and equipment are being modified or reactivated after a period of inactivity.
Maintenance Management A Comprehensive Guide to Maintenance KPIs Maintenance KPIs help organizations understand the reliability and efficiency of their equipment and provide a basis for comparing the performance of different systems and equipment.
Building Operations & Maintenance Featured What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and How to Enhance Production Quality As a lean manufacturing philosophy, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strives to achieve near-perfect production free from small stops, breakdowns, defects, and accidents. It does so by making equipment maintenance a shared responsibility of all employees.
Maintenance Management Featured An Actionable Guide to Conducting Facility Condition Assessments (FCAs) A facility condition assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of a building's physical condition. The purpose of a FCA is to identify any existing or potential problems that could affect the building's performance or integrity and to provide recommendations for addressing those issues.
Building Operations & Maintenance Featured What Is A Bathtub Curve? How to Measure Asset Reliability A bathtub curve visually represents the failure rate of one or more assets by plotting their failure occurrences over time. It has three stage: Infant mortality period, normal life period, and wear-out period.
Asset Management Condition-based maintenance: Definition, CBM strategy, and more Condition-based maintenance uses sensors to monitor asset conditions in real-time and report faults as they start to appear, enabling you to schedule necessary maintenance, repair or replacement tasks before it fails completely and disrupts normal operations.