MANAGING LOCATIONS

Here are a few tips for using Cworks for the maintenance of buildings and properties such as schools, apartments, shopping malls, hotels or any landed property.

• CWorks allows the opening of work orders on locations thus there is no need to insert location codes and descriptions into the asset or equipment database. Preventive work orders can also be scheduled for locations.

 

• An easy way to uniquely code a building is by numbering buildings, floors and rooms as such bb-ff-rrr with bb=building number, ff=floor number and rrr=room numbers. For walkways and lobbies, it could be bb-ff-wxx or bb-ff-lxx with xx=walkway or lobby number.

 

• To tag all pieces of equipment with a unique number is ideal but for smaller cheaper items such as light bulbs and faucets, these items may be too tedious to track individually. We have seen some sites who do not tag items below a certain value and which do not require scheduled preventive work. All work for these items are charged or recorded on work orders open for the location. Thus tracking of work on these items are by location codes. This may reduce the amount of data collected and avoids "analysis paralysis".