Preventative Maintenance   by Courtney Colon

in Business    (submitted 2012-02-01)

As hotel facilities begin to age and require additional upkeep, many hoteliers are faced with a financial dilemma; their buildings are costing them more in an age where fewer people have the funds to vacation regularly, so profits are ever decreasing.

Preventive maintenance is key to stopping unneeded expenses in a hotel facility. By recognizing the value of an efficient preventative maintenance program, hoteliers can automatically increase their profits. Hotels that utilize CMMS systems to manage their preventive maintenance plan gain an automatic edge over their competition. These software programs can aid hotels in both reducing their overall expenses and heightening energy-efficient initiatives.

It is only natural that the maintenance needs of a hotel, or other building, would increase with age. Some of these multiplying maintenance duties may include more frequent cleaning, interior updates, and repairs on plumbing or electric systems. Hotel owners should keep in mind that the more space their hotel has, the more preventive maintenance will be needed.

Far too frequently, hotels decide to neglect preventive maintenance for one reason or another. For example, commonly, hoteliers wrongly believe they are saving money by ignoring preventative maintenance duties or their maintenance department is constantly performing emergency repairs. If a hotel resorts to neglecting preventive maintenance measures, it is usually an indicator that the establishment is growing desperate. Ironically, badly preserved roofs, plumbing and heating systems, and kitchen appliances, to name a few, are actually more apt to suffer costly failures than properly maintained equipment. Furthermore, badly kept-up equipment uses drastically more energy, resulting in expensive utility bills, and ultimately costing the hotel even more money. If hotels opt to use CMMS programs, they can efficiently manage all preventative maintenance, saving money in the long-run.

CMMS programs actually provide special features that aid hotel maintenance managers in scheduling CMMS maintenance tasks and repeating equipment inspections. This function is designed to maintain a meticulously organized central database of all hotel equipment. By providing a hotel's maintenance staff with the ability to track the entire CMMS maintenance process, from work tickets through job completion, CMMS allows for a more efficient workday. Furthermore, once CMMS maintenance has been conducted, the system will keep a meticulous record of what work was performed in the hotel on any given date.

Paying employees for unnecessary overtime is a primary way that hotels accrue needless payouts. Maintenance crews in hotels perform most overtime while they are taking care of work requests that could be completed during a poorly-planned workday. The implementation of a work management software almost eliminates this disorganization, as it allows the majority of maintenance work to be pre-planned and scheduled well ahead of time.

In the long-run, the implementation of a university cmms program will allow work to be performed more efficiently and with fewer hotel assets, which will result in profit increases for the company.

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