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FACILITY MANAGEMENT

By scheduling in regular to finish repairs. Not to be 8. Enhanced Energy Savings: A
servicing of assets based on overlooked is the increase fundamental way to cut down
your understanding of them, you in operator safety. Each of costs is by boosting energy
can reduce the risk of failures them effectively increases the efficiency. This approach
and breakdowns and the greater company’s profit margin. benefits the environment,
costs these incidents often 7. Optimized Space reduces carbon emissions
incur. Furthermore, consistent Management: In a hybrid or over time and leads to
maintenance also goes a long remote working model, a lot of significant savings without
way in extending the life cycles space is doing nothing beyond any noticeable drop in
of assets. While an unmaintained costing you money to maintain. performance. Recommending
HVAC system might go haywire These costs may not jump off and implementing energy-saving
in a few years, one that is well- a balance sheet as evidently
treated and regularly maintained as procurement costs and light bulbs, double-glazing
will likely last several years wastage do, but these expenses on windows and enhanced
longer before a replacement is can add up quickly unless wall insulation within the
required. Over time, this can they are addressed. Through a facilities... It is an investment
drastically drop the costs your carefully implemented space that pays back over time on a
company sustains on the asset management strategy, companies company’s energy bill. A switch
management front. can determine better ways to to energy-saving bulbs can
6. Preventative Maintenance allocate space, dispersing people play a crucial role in reducing
Plan (PMP): The goal of from more crowded areas and that slice of your overall costs.
maintenance is to lower the encouraging them to utilize By introducing measures to
expense of worn-out facilities. more of the locations across consistently monitor and track
A maintenance programme the facilities. This way you can energy usage, FM professionals
must be devised. Additionally, ensure no money is wasted on can harness that data to make
it shortens the time needed vacant locations. definitive cost-saving measures.

UR Uday Kumar, Managing Director of AMPS

Facilities Management Services Pvt. Ltd

1. Establish maintenance operations and, potentially,
processes that can be customer and employee
replicated: One method to cut experiences. Regular,
labour expenses is to simplify planned checks and
your maintenance process. maintenance, whether
Internally, creating standard it is testing machinery/
reproducible procedures at each computer systems or
level of your operation is not inspecting the toilets to
just one of the finest cost-cutting verify they are working
ideas for facility management, properly, will help you avoid
but it can also drastically costly after-hours or emergency
reduce the number of labour service calls. Finally, if you
hours necessary. This is very collaborate closely with
paramount because it helps to suppliers who understand your
cut off unnecessary replicas of difficulties and are open to new facilities which would lead to
the same process. technology and green solutions, the purchase of new facilities
2. Maintenance that is proactive: you will be well on your way instead of constant and effective
Cutting reactive maintenance is to big cost savings for your use of an efficient facility. A
a cost-effective strategy to save company. maintenance schedule has to be
money. Reactive maintenance 3. Implement a preventative established to reduce machine
necessitates urgent attention as maintenance plan (PMP): breakdowns and maintenance
expenses. It also reduces the
well as the costs of resolving a Maintenance itself is to
problem that is already affecting reduce the cost of worn-out amount of time it takes for

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