Machinery Maintenance as Part of Facility Management

In general, all organizations, whether public or private, use buildings, properties and services (support services) in order to support its core activities. By coordination of these assets and services; use of management skills and incorporation of various changes in environment; facility management (FM) affects its ability to act proactively and ensure all its requirements. The aim of FM is to strengthen (in terms of main production flow) boundary processes and systems, to allow workers (with their help) give better performance and contribute to overall success of business organization. Present article deals with economic evaluation of effective CAFM software implementation in manufacturing company. In first part shortly introduces the problematic of Facility Management. Then it analyses machinery maintenance as crucial part of FM in industry. Final part of the article summarizes pros and cons of FM utilization. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.