Preventive/predictive maintenance
Nearly every functioning piece of equipment within a building will require cleaning and maintenance at some point. Building and equipment maintenance is very time-consuming and expensive, and knowing when to perform it can prevent outages and maintain costs. In the past, some buildings used a reactive-maintenance approach that allowed the equipment to fail and then perform the fixes. Obviously, this is an inefficient expensive approach that could negatively impact occupant satisfaction levels during downtime.
Some maintenance activities are easy to schedule and perform on a calendar basis, such as once a week, once a month, or once a year. Others can be performed based on the actual runtime, such as the number of miles or hours a piece of equipment has operated since its last maintenance.
Condition-based Maintenance (CbM) is performed once equipment starts showing signs of wear and tear or is operating out of normal range, such as vibration,...
