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FACILITY MANAGEMENT

There is a critical link between
industrial cleaning and maintenance.
Dust is a major adversary to electrical
systems and manufacturing efficiency.

IoT and AI enable smart predictive
maintenance, shifting from reactive to
proactive upkeep.”

Pankaj Patil

Automation: From remains, availability is less, naturally shifted to the use of
forcing companies to come out
robots in hazardous environments
Home to Industry with automated cleaning robots, like boilers or nuclear reactors.
Sandeep Rawal from like a toy car. These robots “Manual cleaning is banned
Motherson Automotive placed in a room would do the in most countries, but in India
Engineering offered a different vacuuming, wet scrubbing and many users follow conventional
perspective, highlighting the so on.” practices,” he observed,
role of machines and robots Scaling this up, he noted, “On advocating for automated
in material handling and an industrial shop floor, you cleaning methods for their
cleaning. He drew a parallel to don’t want a person to handle the reliability, safety, accuracy
the domestic sphere: “Maids cleaning activity. In the western and repeatability. While
for cleaning at home, janitors world, people are incentivizing acknowledging the initial cost,
for offices are difficult to get, and getting points for using he emphasized, “Automated
so vacuum cleaners or floor robots. Job shortage in India, industrial cleaning comes at a
scrubbers are pressed into service. however, forces educated people cost, in the long-term, reducing
“The requirement for manual to accept mundane activities like risk and improving safety is
handling of these machines cleaning.” The discussion then beyond anybody’s imagination.”

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