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... These components and systems must all be maintained and repaired to optimize the facility's performance throughout its service life and to provide a safe, healthy, and productive environment for its users and occupants. Owners and operators of facilities require as-built information from product data sheets, operation and maintenance manuals, design specifications, testing and balancing reports, and other construction submittal documents to manage a facility efficiently and effectively throughout its life cycle.
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... In 1993 the Federal Construction Council (now the Federal Facilities Council, or FFC) of the National Research Councils held a workshop titled "Developing Data Input Standards for Computerized Maintenance Management Systems",2 to examine methods for developing a standard electronic format for operations and maintenance manuals.
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... SUMMARY OF FACILITATED WORK GROUPS Benefits of Electronic Operation and Maintenance Manuals A standardized electronic format could bring significant benefits to building owners and operators. Maintenance management information could be more easily available at diverse locations, rather than through one or two paper copies of manuals, which are often inaccessible.
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... Also, a project plan should be established for a pilot project, stating what is to be achieved and how. Examples of objectives include lower maintenance costs over a fixed period; reusability of data; labor savings, such as reduced data entry time; and lower cost of performing maintenance tasks.
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... Possible sites for this pilot project are four Internal Revenue Service facilities scheduled for completion by 2004. · Apply the prototype practice to an existing building.
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