Preventative maintenance in industrial facilities is very important. It can be a hard thing for the maintenance team to organize and accomplish.
We deal specifically with preventative maintenance on industrial chillers, ventilation equipment, boilers and heating and air conditioning units used for comfort cooling and heating.
Some of the chillers may be for manufacturing process and some for comfort cooling.
Comfort cooling is always the first thing people think of when we’re discussing the HVAC industry but if a process chiller goes down then production stops while costs keep moving.
Some companies use process chillers for a small part of their manufacturing process. However, we deal with one customer who uses chilled water for the vast majority of work that goes on in that facility.
The same applies to boilers. If you have a process chiller then a preventable failure found during a preventative maintenance visit in your industrial facility will save you obvious costs.
We also realize that maintenance teams in facilities are usually stretched thin at times. So when a call comes in for a failure on the comfort side of HVAC, it is very helpful if we can tackle it and resolve that issue quickly.
Preventative maintenance saves labor hours for the maintenance team, keeps production moving and everyone happy and comfortable.
We look at one of the main focuses of our preventative maintenance contracts on industrial and commercial HVAC (process or comfort air conditioning) as making the life of the on-staff maintenance team easier.
If we can quickly and efficiently repair a problem and communicate when and how that problem was resolved to the correct person, then they are able to more easily do their job which is, keeping the facility and production running.
We do this on an emergency basis but have found that the more problems you can address using preventative maintenance, the lower the cost and the happier the employees of that facility are.
My experience in industrial facilities including manufacturing, distribution and community utility companies has convinced me that if you do not schedule maintenance time for your equipment then your equipment will schedule maintenance time for you.