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green chemicals for industrial dirt, grease and oil already
Cleaning equipment facilities at par with conventional exist, but it would help to have
chemicals that are developed
cleaning chemicals, within this
Very fine materials decade itself. specifically for the steel industry.
like iron ore particles or Chemicals that can be used as
coal dust to large objects Specific applications a spray before final product
like dolomite need to dispatch would also be of great
be cleaned and cleared; Each time a factory worker utility.
hence, a good amount of walks into a washroom, he brings
equipment and machinery in a tremendous amount of dust. Digitalisation
is required to complete Imagine a hundred workers using
the cleaning process. a washroom; how much dust will Considering the size of the
These include road accumulate? Anti-dust chemical campus, digital FM software is the
sweeping machines, ride coatings based on nanotechnology biggest tool that any steel FM head
on machines, heavy suction that prevent dust accumulation, or would like to have. It can help
sweepers, suction vacuums allow it to be cleaned more easily, improve productivity, monitoring,
and other heavy-duty are most welcome. communication and feedback, and
equipment. help with managing checklists,
Grease is commonly Chemicals for removing hard manpower and MIS data.
used in the manufacturing
process. Machines like
hot water jet blowers and How is FM performance monitored in a steel plant?
steam blowers are available Under the SLA model, we have specified parameters that govern
for clearing grease, but how a particular area of a facility needs to be maintained according
machines which need less to certain standards. For example, under washroom maintenance,
water for the same results there are 10+ parameters embedded in the SLA, governing water
– such as a foam-based spillage, odour control, quality of cleaning equipment etc. These
machine – could be of parameters are audited periodically on a daily and weekly basis to
more help. measure the FM performance.
For cleaning at heights, We also measure qualitative output. Is the vendor dependable for
presently, cherry pickers taking up jobs at short notice? Can their employees multitask? Are
or man-lifters are being their FM services integrated? These are some of the questions we
used. We can look at look to answer.
more effective methods
like robotic machines that In a large campus like ours, there are special projects that need to
require little or no manual be undertaken throughout the year. For example, one unit may go in
intervention. for shutdown for maintenance purposes. This is a major activity for
which special cleaning operations need to be undertaken. Time is a
Drones can be deployed constraint; time taken for delivering results is also part of the FM
wherever possible SLA.
to survey cleaning
requirements of places In the future, I would like to go in for a 360 degree evaluation
which are not accessible, of the service provider’s performance, with the help of a feedback
and at a later stage, to spray mechanism that can take the inputs of all stakeholders like
the cleaning chemical. employees, the FM team, the management and the vendor as well.
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