\u201cThe cost of additional labor for unplanned or reactive maintenance and repair is higher than doing routine preventive maintenance because all of a sudden, you\u2019re not in control of the resources,\u201d Whittaker says. \u201cNow you have higher overtime costs and possibly a need to bring in more expensive third-party contractors off hours to do work.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cAssets that people often don\u2019t associate with preventive maintenance are things like roofs, facades and parking lots that aren\u2019t dynamic mechanical equipment. That kind of preventive maintenance can have a big impact because things like roofing systems and pavement are very expensive, and not fixing things and doing routine maintenance can really accelerate the deterioration and create a lot more expensive damage down the line”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe equipment also usually doesn\u2019t live to its expected life, so you\u2019re having to do capital replacement sooner than if you had maintained it well to begin with. You\u2019re also not getting productivity. If a piece of critical equipment fails, are you just going to send everybody home for a few days while you find the parts to fix it? You\u2019re not helping your company by having all these unexpected severe events.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe cost of additional labor for unplanned or reactive maintenance and repair is higher than doing routine preventive maintenance because all of a sudden, you\u2019re not in control of the resources,\u201d Whittaker says. \u201cNow you have higher overtime costs and possibly a need to bring…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n