In many business settings, industrial shutters serve a range of critical functions.
From security to temperature regulation, these modern fixtures of premises management need to be maintained to operate as intended and fulfil their various roles.
Establishing a long-term maintenance plan is the best way to ensure your shutters stay fully operational and last as long as possible.
Let’s explore how you can establish a fully functional maintenance plan.
Understanding servicing requirements
Before you start planning, you need to understand the maintenance requirements of your specific shutters.
Different shutters will need different levels of servicing.
For example, an internal shutter used for temperature regulation in a food storage facility will have different servicing needs than an external security shutter.
Check with reputable manufacturers such as LBS Group, and also make sure that you ask the installer when they’re on site.
They may have additional case-specific recommendations based on your site’s environmental and use conditions.
Establish responsibilities
At some point, you’ll need to establish exactly who in your organisation is responsible for keeping the shutters in good shape.
In some organisations, it will be easy to slip this responsibility into an existing structure, group or job role.
In others, you may need to create a role or assign a new responsibility.
The point is, even if you’ve made the best plan imaginable, if it’s just put in a drawer in a back room somewhere, it won’t be of use to anyone.
Assign clear responsibility in your organisation, and it will get taken care of.
Find a servicing partner
Next, you’ll need to find a servicing partner.
There will be some aspects of servicing that you can take care of yourself – basic visual inspections, greasing, listening out for weird noises – but the more in-depth services will need to be done by a professional engineer.
Look for a reliable servicing partner, one that knows the systems that you have installed in your premises and is available to do regular services on them.
You’ll also want to find a service that can fix unexpected issues at short notice, so that you’re not left stuck in the dark should things go wrong.
Establish your schedule
Based on your now hopefully more complete understanding of how the shutters need to be serviced, you can establish a schedule.
There will be some checks you might do monthly, others biannually, and others annually.
This will all depend on the specific shutters you have and how you use them.
Getting an effective servicing plan in place as early as possible should be a top priority.
Without proper servicing, your shutters will start to show issues much sooner than necessary, and could result in serious security and safety issues.
Taking a moment to put a proper service schedule in place reduces unnecessary risks and saves you money in the long run.
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