Find Maintenance Schedules in O&M Manuals
Manufacturer maintenance schedules are buried within O&M manuals, often across hundreds of pages for different equipment. PM Assist searches all your O&M documentation to find specific maintenance requirements, frequencies, and service tasks in seconds.
The Challenge of Extracting Maintenance Schedules
Every piece of building equipment has a manufacturer-recommended maintenance schedule, typically documented in the O&M manual. For a commercial building with hundreds of equipment items, extracting and compiling these schedules into a planned preventive maintenance (PPM) programme is a significant task.
The difficulty is compounded by the fact that maintenance information is presented differently in every O&M manual. Some manufacturers provide clear maintenance tables, while others include maintenance guidance within general operating instructions. Some recommend monthly inspections, others quarterly, and the terminology varies between manufacturers.
Search for Specific Maintenance Requirements
PM Assist allows you to search across all your O&M manuals for specific maintenance information. You can ask "What is the maintenance schedule for the boiler?" or "How often should the AHU filters be changed?" and get answers drawn directly from the manufacturer's documentation.
This is invaluable when setting up a new PPM programme, reviewing an existing maintenance regime, or responding to an auditor's question about whether maintenance frequencies align with manufacturer recommendations.
- Search for maintenance frequencies by equipment type
- Find manufacturer-recommended service tasks
- Locate filter replacement schedules and intervals
- Identify seasonal maintenance requirements
Aligning PPM Programmes with Manufacturer Guidance
SFG20, the standard maintenance specification for building engineering services, provides a framework for maintenance scheduling. However, SFG20 also recommends that maintenance regimes are supplemented with manufacturer-specific requirements from the O&M documentation.
PM Assist makes it practical to cross-reference your PPM programme against the actual manufacturer guidance. If a planned maintenance task frequency differs from the manufacturer's recommendation, PM Assist helps you find and review the original guidance quickly.
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