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Every facility management and housekeeping company worth its salt is talking about robotic cleaning today. Their customers are beginning to understand the importance of processes over personnel, and service providers …
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Who will pay for digitisation? When FM heads, service providers and software developers come together, profits and savings go hand in hand.
The pandemic has put digitisation on steroids. In a recent study of Fortune 500 companies, Mackenzie found that back in 2019, 35% used digitally enabled products and services. By August …
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What does it take to ensure uninterrupted operations at a manufacturing facility during a pandemic?
With the manufacturing sector going through a sea change, its FM partners have had to evolve in tandem. Apart from housekeeping, other FM services too have had to reinvent themselves. …
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Costs are rising, frozen, fixed and variable. How is the FM industry reimagining operations and contracts for the best possible cost-benefit ratio?
Popularly called the place where agreements are signed or where disagreements are gulped down with a mouthful of coffee. Essentially so, when these talks are initiated by facility service providers …
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Railway police commissioner Quaiser Khalid uses technology for passengers’ safe and hygienic travel
How do you ensure the safety and security of a ‘city’ of 80 lakh people that is constantly on the move? Ask Quaiser Khalid IPS, Commissioner of Police, Railways, Mumbai. …
With 150 stores operated by 97 franchise partners across 39 cities, Tumbledry has serviced over 320,000 orders from its customer base of more than 100,000 in just two years of …
In the third decade of the millennium, merely employing cleaning machines is not enough. The astute facility manager will want to monitor what he has invested in by tracking the …
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Going forward, there will be emphasis on cost effectiveness, not just cost’
In the same conversation, Dr Arun Kumar, Head of South Asia, Bayer Environmental Science presented his viewpoints from a solution manufacturer’s standpoint: Last year, we surveyed 2000+ stakeholders on how …
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Disinfection assumes center-stage in pest management
Pest management has been one of the most active and operational services over the last 15 months. Evolving in tune to the present requirement of keeping facilities safe, pest management …
Can manpower-based Contracts give way to SLA-based Contracts Counting heads or counting results? That is the choice that FM heads across various kinds of facilities have to make. Is it …
