Predictive Maintenance

Trouble-free operation is no longer possible without intelligent technology. Data-based maintenance, supported by sensor technology and AI, enables predictive maintenance strategies, short response times and virtually trouble-free operation. The goal is always to achieve a high level of reliability, especially in critical environments.

Data-based planning of your assets

With our digital solutions, impending failures of technical systems or individual components can be predicted and repaired before they occur. This not only reduces downtime, but also enables FM to prioritize the replacement of spare parts based on wear models, which in turn enables efficient staff scheduling.

„With our solutions, we are addressing customer demand for predictive, data-based maintenance solutions and decisions that have a significant impact on the planning and CapEx of large portfolios.“

Dr. Jochen Keysberg, CEO Apleona Group

Advantages of predictive strategies

By analyzing historical data and using real-time information from building operations, it is also possible to derive predictive strategies for building operations.

The benefits to our customers:

• Avoid unplanned downtime, especially in critical environments
• Reduce emergency repair costs
• Strategically and cost-effectively replace building systems
• Data-driven maintenance solutions with significant impact on planning and CapEx for large portfolios

Eastway: The Experts

Eastway was founded in 2001 and is based in Limerick, Ireland. The technology specialist advises clients on condition-based and predictive maintenance and repair solutions for building services equipment such as HVAC units, compressors, chillers and pumps. These solutions are based on sensor-supported online monitoring with 24/7 monitoring by building technology specialists, whose recommendations and decisions are in turn supported by machine learning-based diagnostics of the collected data. The solutions are manufacturer-neutral.

Customers include global players in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, food & beverage and other industries with asset and availability critical environments that Eastway serves throughout Europe and the US.

Technology Specialist Eastway

The technology specialist Eastway, which is part of the Group, advises on condition-based and predictive maintenance and servicing solutions for building technology systems such as HVAC units, compressors, chillers and pumps. These solutions are based on sensor-supported online monitoring with 24/7 monitoring by building technology specialists, whose recommendations and decisions are in turn supported by machine learning-based diagnostics of the collected data. The solutions are independent of original equipment manufacturers.

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Flexible and scalable technology

Eastway now has a database of tens of millions of data samples and hundreds of verified real-world machine failures that is constantly being expanded and refined. The company uses a proprietary monitoring platform that collects data from multiple sensors and transmits, organizes, and structures the data.

„The analysis of very large data streams, often coming live from sensors, remote maintenance and diagnostic systems of networked systems, is constantly improving during operation, especially because learning algorithms can make increasingly accurate predictions.“

Dr. Gert Riegel, COO Apleona Group

The technologies and software products used by Eastway are designed to be flexible enough to adapt to different customer requirements and to be scalable across sites and facilities. This is an important prerequisite for use by Apleona's major customers, whose sites are managed across Europe with uniform quality standards and integrated facility management solutions.

Integrated FM is a success factor for predictive strategies

By analyzing historical data and using real-time information from building operations, predictive strategies for building operations can be derived. The key success factor for the use of artificial intelligence in facility management, however, is outcome-based contracts. These transfer the tactical competencies of the service organization to the service provider, i.e. they define the desired result of the service provided and avoid purely performance-oriented activity descriptions.

Integrated FM is the supreme discipline for us

At Apleona, integrated FM is not simply the bundling of different services. Instead, Apleona provides you with centralized key account management and control based on consistent, transparent quality criteria with corresponding output-oriented contracts and added value through add-on services, for example: workplace concepts, ESG or decarbonization strategies. Last but not least, we assume joint economic responsibility and guarantee you a savings glidepath over the term of the contract if you wish.