Regular facilities maintenance is key to minimising interruptions to any production or service delivery process – while also extending the useful life of machinery and equipment. At the same time, finding the optimal way to maintain your facilities can be challenging and requires expertise and careful planning.
One way of dealing with this issue is to streamline the facility maintenance planning process as much as possible – and to engage the services of a reliable maintenance provider.
Since 2002, our engineering company, Marley Flow Control, has been not just an industry leader in the manufacturing of cooling towers but also a highly regarded provider of quality facility maintenance services – whether it be planned maintenance or emergency repairs. We are an Australian owned and operated brand with a wealth of knowledge that has allowed us to work with some of the country’s largest businesses and corporations we are pleased to call our clients.
As industry leaders, we have a high level of expertise and can provide a wide range of facility maintenance services – including maintenance and service of pumps, valves, piping, fuelling systems, emergency generators, and compressors. If you need any maintenance, repairs, and general service work done, contact our experienced team of highly skilled technicians to discuss your options today.
So, how can streamlining facilities maintenance benefit your business?
What does facilities maintenance include?
Facilities maintenance includes general ongoing maintenance and service – as well as fixing any breakage as timely and efficiently as possible. Different assets and equipment require different maintenance strategies, so most companies find that a combination of a few types of maintenance works best for them.
Below we list a few common maintenance strategies.
Responsive maintenance
This type of maintenance is required when an issue arises that needs to be resolved – such as damage to equipment (including breakdowns), service interruptions, or health and safety hazard that needs to be addressed urgently.
Planned maintenance
This term describes all regular facility maintenance works that are aimed at keeping machinery and equipment operating as required – both in terms of functionality and to meet any necessary statutory requirements.
Planned maintenance is crucial to making sure that your equipment can operate without interruptions and excessive breakage.
Preventive maintenance
Preventive maintenance is carried out when machinery or equipment is either performing below standard or approaching an imminent breakdown that can be averted by such maintenance.
Timely preventive maintenance helps restore a facility to its optimal operating condition with minimal interruptions to its operations.
How to streamline your facilities maintenance
While some responsive maintenance is always a part of life, planned and preventive maintenance is vital if you need to ensure uninterrupted operations of your facilities.
Focus on preventive maintenance
A well thought out preventive maintenance schedule is the best way to make sure that your facility is adequately maintained and is able to operate without any major interruptions. It helps to ensure both the safety of your personnel and the uninterrupted services delivered to your clients.
Preventive maintenance also delivers significant long-term savings, as it helps businesses to reduce the costs of major breakdowns.
A solid maintenance schedule usually includes regular checks of your facility and its systems (mechanical, electrical, cooling, security, etc.) to ensure that they are operating properly.
Use best practices when setting up your planned maintenance schedule
Today, there is no need to fully develop your own maintenance schedule and estimates, as you can have access to the best expertise from around the globe. Still, in most cases, you should not just adopt someone else’s facility maintenance schedule without first customising it to accommodate the unique requirements of your business. It is usually the combination of the two that works best.
For example, at Marley Flow we have our own maintenance planning system (MEX) that ensures that both Australian and international standards of facility maintenance are taken into account – along with any unique customer requirements.
Our clients always know in advance when their assets are scheduled to be serviced. They also receive electronic reports of planned maintenance results – and are promptly notified about any faults detected.
Engage services of facility maintenance experts
As a rule of thumb, the more complex a system is, the more expertise is needed to ensure it is maintained properly. That is why businesses often prefer to engage services of highly qualified experts to maintain certain systems and facilities.
We at Marley Flow have experience working with many industries where timely and seamless maintenance is crucial to operations – for example, the Australian Defence Force. We have been trusted with providing rapid engineering support services to a number of Australian military bases – including support for base fuel systems, general fuel system maintenance, compressed air systems, and other varied engineering services.
We offer a wide range of facilities maintenance services
As a trusted Australian owned and operated brand, Marley Flow Control offers a high level of expertise combined with an impressive range of products. We perform a wide range of facility maintenance services, as well as cooling tower services.
We use a quality Maintenance Planning System (MEX) to ensure that our clients’ vital assets are serviced in accordance with their requirements and best Australian and international practices. We also use Biz Forms software to ensure that services are streamlined and callouts can be attended to as quickly as possible.
Our technicians have all the necessary certifications and skills to perform confined space entry, working at heights, and other tasks in the field.
We provide planned maintenance of bulk fuel storage, cooling towers, pumps, air compressors, emergency generators, pipes, valves, electrical services, and more.
Find out how we can use our engineering experience to help find the right solution for your business needs. Contact us here for a free quote.