Good preventive maintenance in a property management system provides the following benefits typically; a more efficient operation, fewer breakdowns, extended equipment life, diagnosis of weak points, and advance determination of equipment replacement. Maintenance costs of a building alone can cost a fortune in the facility's annual budget. Implementing a planned, predictive and preventive maintenance strategy rather than reactive and corrective can be significant cost savings in the long run because the cost of deferred maintenance can be relatively high.
"Daily activities of the building's tenants will be disrupted if there is a breakdown or disorder of elevator or HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) facilities. As such, a facility manager needs to ensure that the facilities are up and running. He is responsible for planning, making financial projections, scheduling preventive maintenance tasks, overseeing the maintenance jobs carrying accordingly, conducting training for inhouse technicians, and outsourcing some highly skilled maintenance jobs to the right parties." Teh Hon Seng, CEO of TimeTec Group, continuing his series of articles on Smart Building; this time around is about cloud-based facility maintenance system.
"Most of our TimeTec Smart Building solutions like tenant management, property accounting, visitor management, access control, parking management, near field commerce, etc., are managing the people and activities in a building. It also includes the hardware devices that associate with our solutions to perfect the activities, such as face recognition devices to enhance security in access control, unattended payment kiosks to fulfill cashless parking requirements. However, to upkeep all the hardware equipment in tip-top condition at all times, preventive maintenance is crucial. That's why TimeTec Facility or the traditional term CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) naturally came into our mind to complete the ecosystem on Smart Building," Teh said.
"TimeTec Facility is not designed only to maintain our hardware; it is meant for the facilities or equipment of the entire building."
"In fact, I don't like the old term Computerized Maintenance Management System. It feels outdated because of the word 'Computerized', where people moved the manual work, mostly the paperwork, into a desktop computer. 'Computerization' happened long ago in the late 80s and 90s in the last century. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, we're championing 'Digitalization', where data shouldn't stay cocoon in its own system but should freely flow from one system to another to benefit customers in a larger perspective. So, Windows-based software for Computerization should transform to Cloud-Based for Digitalization. When I adopted the term CMMS, I like to call it Cloud Maintenance Management System, to highlight the digital transformation."
"The differences are obvious. First, the CMMS will integrate with the front-end TimeTec Building (Commercial Buildings) and iNeighbour (Residential Properties) modules for residents or tenants to report faulty facilities and receive notifications on repairing updates. The request for corrective maintenance will automatically flow from tenant/resident to TimeTec Maintenance, verified by the Facility Manager, and further automated to the work order procedures and at the end feedback to the tenant/resident. A technician assigned to the repair job will be notified via the App and can update his work progress in the same App."
"Second, more and more hardware devices installed in a building nowadays are IoT-enabled, embedded with sensors. When the IoT hardware is integrated with Cloud Maintenance Management System, it can automatically trigger the preventive maintenance processes according to its usage to ease the maintenance manager's workload."
"Huge efficiency could be achieved," said Teh Hon Seng.
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About TimeTec
TimeTec Group was established in 2000. With its strong in-house R&D for software and hardware development, the Group has filed more than 20 patents in US and Malaysia; and developed the state-of-the-art HRTech solutions for workforce management and PropTech solutions for smart residential, digital building, smart home/office, smart parking, and smart township, unleashing the power of biometrics, cloud & edge computing, IoT and AI technologies to build its unique cloud ecosystem. All these solutions connect and change the landscape of work life and home life in a larger digital perspective via its consolidated super app.
The marketing efforts of TimeTec Group have successfully bred three homegrown but globally recognized IT brands, FingerTec, TimeTec and iNeighbour. Through a vast network, TimeTec Group distributes its biometric hardware products and 18 cloud applications, including IoT devices, to more than 150 countries worldwide. For more information, visit our company website: www.timeteccloud.com.
Various renowned clients have subscribed to multiple TimeTec cloud solutions, including IOI Properties, Putrajaya Holdings, Ibraco, Binastra, Thriven, Hock Seng Lee, QSR Brands, Central Sugars Refinery CSR, Sunway Constructions, Mamee, Yakult, Nano Malaysia Berhad, Kossan, Zalora, Focus Point, Yee Lee Group and many more. The versatility and feasibility of TimeTec products also attract various international customers from all over the world, including Hong Kong, US, UK, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Australia, Qatar, South Africa etc.
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