“To Preserve and Protect.”
It sounds like a motto for a police department. But it’s actually the kind of thinking that turns the job of a facilities manager into a higher calling.
Your mission as a facilities professional is to maximize the performance of your physical assets, contribute to your organization’s operational efficiency, and protect your company’s profitability. But without the right tools to do the job, that mission becomes mission impossible.
Preventive Maintenance: A Fine Line
Infor’s eBook on cloud-based facilities management points to the careful balance building operators have to strike in devising just the right preventive maintenance strategy.
“Preventive maintenance will preserve, protect, and extend the life of your buildings and equipment,” the e-book states. “But there is a fine line between doing too little and doing so much that maintenance eats away at operational budgets—for instance, maintenance performed in accordance with a schedule (fixed or guesswork) as opposed to need.”
That balance plays out against three challenges that are familiar to anyone who’s ever had any responsibility for asset management:
- Assets are aging, and older buildings need more upkeep and upgrades, and more frequent repairs.
- Qualified labor is getting more expensive, as the demands on facilities maintenance teams become more complex.
- Health, safety, security, environmental, and climate mandates are all attaching new expectations to facilities management, making real-time data access essential to verify and demonstrate compliance.
Cloud Computing to the Rescue
With each passing day, it’s more obvious that successful facilities management depends on an integrated data management system that brings all your activities together on a single IT platform. Any system worth using must give you real-time visibility on every asset you own, generate useful insights from the mass of data available to you, and make it easier to prioritize, assign, and manage your available maintenance resources.
It’s a big, tough challenge, and one that cloud computing is tailor-made to solve.
After learning more about cloud-based facilities management, you’ll only want to settle for an asset management system that optimizes labor efficiency, provides mobile access for remote teams, allows you to track your preventive maintenance checklists, boosts productivity with social business collaboration, and helps you visualize and plan your maintenance activities.
“With a unified, cloud-based facilities management system, such efficiency is within reach,” the paper states. “Your tenants, contractors, staff, and stakeholders will have the tools they need to collaborate more effectively. And because everyone will have access to the same centralized information, you can eliminate duplicate efforts and significantly streamline workflows.”
If your mission is to preserve and protect, download a copy of Infor’s eBook on cloud-based facilities management today.
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