Investing a significant amount of money in commercial floor cleaning machines is an important thing to do for most companies. It’s easy to look at the bottom line and try to choose the cheapest possible machines you can find, but any company executive or representative that understands value realizes the importance of choosing the highest quality, regardless of price in the short term.
They also realize how important it is to keep those machines operating at peak levels throughout the year. That’s where preventive maintenance comes into play.
What constitutes preventive maintenance?
Preventive maintenance is basically general maintenance that is designed to keep machines or vehicles operating at peak levels. Using the machine as it was designed is a great way to keep it protected and operating efficiently for many years to come.
Storing it properly is also an important aspect of general maintenance. As far as preventive maintenance, it includes checking all components, replacing filters, if there are any on it, cleaning wheels, lubricating parts, checking bearings, and much more.
If your maintenance personnel are not knowledgeable enough to conduct preventive maintenance on those machines, you can have the work done by an experienced professional for a reasonable price.
What preventive maintenance saves you.
Over the years, your commercial facility will likely need to be cleaned on a daily basis. This is especially true when you have people coming into the facility every day. That means the floor is going to require a great deal of care and attention.
The more use those floor cleaning machines see, the more likely they will begin to wear out and break down over time. Preventive maintenance will help extend the longevity of those commercial floor cleaning machines for as long as possible.
Some machines are simply better built than others. For example, Centaur Floor Machines are some of the most well manufactured in the industry and some people are still using their Centaur machines they purchased in the 1960s.
Preventive maintenance goes a long way to helping that become a reality.