A recent poll by SFG20 has revealed that over 3 in 5 businesses (63%) are still using paper-based maintenance guidance, whereby information rapidly becomes out of date and inefficient to upkeep.
Further SFG20 findings have shown that only 20% of businesses are ‘wholeheartedly’ embracing digital-led maintenance and that 43% of businesses also named systems integrations as the most significant problems in their business. These findings reflect an industry-wide concern around placing digital at the centre of maintenance strategies.
Despite this, additional traffic data reveals that interactions with SFG20’s content around maintenance schedules increased by 66% across the last year, indicating an uptick in businesses looking to educate themselves on schedules and develop their strategies when it comes to digital-led maintenance.
Paul Bullard, product director at SFG20, the industry standard for building maintenance, says:
"The reluctance to adopt digital-led maintenance was initially fuelled by the perceived effort and high costs of hardware and software. However, the landscape is changing with more affordable options now available. Yet challenges remain, as businesses work to develop the necessary skills to deploy sensors, monitors, and interpret the generated data effectively. Overcoming these hurdles is essential to unlocking the full potential of digital maintenance.
Printed maintenance guidance, still widely used by facility managers, reflects a static snapshot of one particular point in time, meaning they quickly become out of date and inaccurate with a constantly evolving legislative landscape. This can put building managers at risk of falling off the industry standard and exposing themselves to non-compliance.”
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