International. The sector faced potentially significant disruption challenges, as did other sectors globally. As a sector that faced and managed better than many others, largely maintaining production in the face of severe work stress and pressure on the supply chain logistics.
However, many of these problems remain to be solved, while new challenges arise. There is consensus that innovative companies in the sector are now looking to transform their ways of working and the solutions to enable this.
Likewise, many of the companies in the sector and the main players began to see the need to change aspects of their production and operating models, and this is clearly reflected in the perceptions expressed in a number of sector surveys where companies indicated their intentions for the future shape of their business process.
A common view among the companies participating in the surveys is the need to optimize the use and availability of production and plant assets. The negative impacts of production loss from asset downtime is all too evident in production levels and suboptimal plant turnover.
As evidenced by the analysis " Crossing the yellow line How Integrated Facility Management optimizes production" "the advantages of moving towards an IFM model. The implementation of an Integrated Management (IFM) model requires greater strategic alignment with respect to the definitions of the product or result of the services. It would also require aligning your supplier management organization to a more collaboration-oriented model."
In an IFM model, not only the activity, the operational activity of the services, but also part of the tactical and strategic alignment is outsourced. Faced with this, respondents to the research, emphasized that "normally, what we see as an IFM package is a consolidation of hard (technical) and soft (non-technical) services. Hard services include asset/machine maintenance, mechanical and engineering equipment, HVAC, BMS, and building structure maintenance and repair."
In the future it is expected that this will be extended to the production areas, allowing process improvement to strengthen the industry and increase the return on operations.
