Improving Maintenance Management Practices for Building Facility

Maintenance Management Practices For Building Facility: A Case Study

The practices of conventional methods for maintenance management in Malaysian Polytechnic faced many issues due to poor service delivery, inadequate finance, poor maintenance plan and maintenance backlogs. The purpose of this study is to improve the conventional method practices which tend to be ineffective in Malaysian Polytechnic. The case studies were conducted with eight Polytechnics from f...

Maintenance Prevention Information Management System for Facility Life Cycle Management

Maintenance Prevention (MP) is an important concept for ensuring reliability and maintainability of manufacturing facilities by providing various information collected during actual operations (MP information) to their design phase. However, in many cases, information collected in the shop floor is not detailed and/or accurate enough to make use of it in the design phase. In this paper, we prop...

A Training and Educational Demonstration for Improving Maintenance Practices

Improper and unnecessary maintenance actions can result in a waste of resources, time, and money. Training and education play a vital role in maintenance implementation and can be used to prevent improper maintenance procedures. The Center for Predictive Maintenance (CPM) has developed a demonstration framework and tool that can be used to educate and train users extending from maintainers to l...

Climbing Service Robots for Improving Safety in Building Maintenance Industry

Semantic Building Information Model and Multimedia for Facility Management

In the field of civil engineering, the proliferation of stakeholders and the heterogeneity of modeling tools detract from the quality of the design process, construction and building maintenance. In this paper, we present a Web-based platform lets geographically dispersed project participants—from facility managers and architects to electricians to plumbers—directly use and exchange project doc...