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The Fourth Industrial Revolution has arrived with what is known as Industry 4.0, a new way of operating for businesses, which have seen a change in the environments in which they compete.

The first time the term Industry 4.0 was used was at the Hannover Fair in 2011, the most important global industrial fair.

The concept was used with the intention of starting the path towards a project that would carry out the conception and development of the smart factory.

It would be a factory associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which meant computerized production, with an interconnection between all its processes. All this making use of the Internet of Things (IoT), more well known today as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

The term Industry 4.0 encompasses many purposes and concepts. However, early advancements involve integrating greater flexibility and individualization into manufacturing processes.

Industry 4.0 holds promise: to drive a new revolution that combines advanced production techniques and procedures with smart technologies. All this to be incorporated into companies, people and assets.

This revolution is defined by the emergence of new technologies. Among other:

• The robotic.
• The advanced analytics of Industry 4.0.
• Cognitive technologies.
• Artificial intelligence (AI).
• Nanotechnology.
• The internet of things (IoT).

Due to these changes, organizations have a duty to identify those technologies that best meet their needs in order to invest in them. In addition, they must undertake the changes required in their facilities in order to adapt them.

In the case of opting for external services, the management of comprehensive installations by Cimelsa is carried out using the latest available technology. With this they manage to increase the precision of their work and guarantee their clients a professional service, as well as adapted to the current characteristics and needs of the industry.

Digitally incorporating information from different sources and locations allows doing business in a continuous cycle.

As that cycle unfolds, the constant flow of information and actions between the physical and digital worlds drives real-time access to information.

This occurs through a few iterative steps:

• Physical world – Digital world. Information is obtained from the first and a digital record of that information is made.
• Digital – Digital. Information is shared and interpreted thanks to advanced Industry 4.0 analytics, as well as scenario analysis and AI, in order to discover relevant information.
• Digital world – Physical world. The decisions of the digital world are translated into effective data thanks to algorithms, while actions and changes within the physical world are stimulated.

Thanks to Industry 4.0, the operations of industrial businesses improve, as well as their income. This also enables the transformation of products, the supply chain itself and, of course, customer expectations.

Furthermore, new technologies linked to Industry 4.0 can lead to novel goods and services.

Among the technologies that are helping Industry 4.0 reach its maximum development, are those that follow.

It is the basis for any strategy in Industry 4.0 because it allows connectivity and integration of services, production, engineering, supply chain, sales and distribution.

It also makes it possible to store and analyze a large amount of data, which is processed more easily, something really valuable in industrial maintenance processes.

It is a fundamental mechanism in smart factories. Machines in production plants in the industrial sector are equipped with sensors that have an IP address. This allows them to connect with other web-ready devices.

Some industrial machines have a tendency to break down during certain production processes. Well, the use of the collected data will help the facilities to perform predictive maintenance based on machine learning algorithms. This will increase uptime as well as efficiency.

Companies in the industrial sector have not always taken into account the importance of cybersecurity. However, the great connectivity of the equipment in the 4.0 factories that allows for much more efficient production processes, also exposes new access routes for cyber attacks. Therefore, its protection is essential.

Advanced analytics is one of the applications included in Industry 4.0 that has the most travel, use and impact in the short term.

This is mainly due to:

The possibility of having information throughout the value chain.
Increased storage capacities.
New ways to analyze and process data.

All this means that multiple utilities of advanced analytics continue to emerge, which generate relevant impacts on the processes of the industrial sector.

Its applications in industry can be classified into predictive, descriptive and prescriptive analytics.

In addition to these, it also greatly favors the optimization of certain activities, such as optimization of planning, product design, predictive maintenance, etc.

But more than important, the need for the use of advanced analytics is becoming fundamental. Within each industrial sector there are applications of it with a lot of projection. For example:

In the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry for process optimization and predictive quality.
In the chemical industry for the identification of anomalies, maintenance and predictive quality and optimization of processes.
In the metallurgical industry for visualization, predictive maintenance and production control.
For the automotive industry, this analytic stands out in advanced planners and in process optimization.

Advanced analytics is one of the applications included in Industry 4.0 that has the most travel, use and impact in the short term.

This is mainly due to:

• The possibility of having information throughout the value chain.
• Increased storage capacities.
• New ways to analyze and process data.

All this means that multiple utilities of advanced analytics continue to emerge, which generate relevant impacts on the processes of the industrial sector.

Its applications in industry can be classified into predictive, descriptive and prescriptive analytics.

In addition to these, it also greatly favors the optimization of certain activities, such as optimization of planning, product design, predictive maintenance, etc.

But more than important, the need for the use of advanced analytics is becoming fundamental. Within each industrial sector there are applications of it with a lot of projection. For example:

• In the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry for process optimization and predictive quality.
• In the chemical industry for the identification of anomalies, maintenance and predictive quality and optimization of processes.
• In the metallurgical industry for visualization, predictive maintenance and production control.
• For the automotive industry, this analytic stands out in advanced planners and in process optimization.

Industrial maintenance has undergone many technological transformations over the years. Especially considering that, in the beginning, it was only considered as those corrective tasks to solve existing faults.

Over time, preventive and predictive maintenance has gained weight due to its many benefits. The main one: anticipating failure by guaranteeing the continued efficiency of the assets.

There are different types of industrial maintenance (corrective, preventive, predictive, in use, zero hours and early). However, of all of them, the one that has the most relevance within Industry 4.0 is predictive.

The concepts of Industry 4.0, Big Data, IIoT and predictive maintenance are closely related.

This is because predictive maintenance relies on the monitoring of machinery in order to optimize maintenance tasks. And when it comes to data collection and analysis, we are in the best industrial age.

The real challenge of the 4.0 revolution is discovering the ways to interconnect the processes that exist. For this, technology is used as a connector for machines, equipment, operations and people. And, thanks to 4.0 technologies, industrial maintenance is much easier when it comes to controlling and carrying out activities.

In industrial maintenance 4.0, thanks to the new connected technologies, machines are used to collect the status of the equipment, instead of resorting to specialized employees in that area. That is, it is as if the data were looking for people and not the other way around.

Predictive maintenance has found in its development within Industry 4.0 many benefits in equipment monitoring systems. Among them:

• Self-diagnostic systems are becoming more appreciated and trusted.
• Cloud Computing systems and, therefore, SaaS services, are better accepted and applied, as they are perfectly adapted to the needs of the industrial sector today.
• There is a large body of data, but it is easier to turn it into information.
• In fact, thanks to this data on the current or predicted state of the assets, the industry has a greater awareness about the possibility of optimizing the operations and the maintenance of the same.
• Until relatively recently, a manufacturer’s sensor was only compatible with its own measurement, analysis, and recording system. Fortunately,
• Industry 4.0 has brought with it the need to find compatibility between systems.

The predictive maintenance of Industry 4.0 within the industrial sector brings numerous benefits:

• Accompany the investment and increase the profitability of the equipment.
• Overcome certain communication boundaries.
• Increase the reliability of the equipment by precisely determining the risk of failure and its impact on the system. For this, Big Data and AI are great allies.
• Get to clarify with great accuracy the useful life of the equipment.
• It manages to boost organizations in the market.

Some of the challenges Industry 4.0 faces are:

• The need for continuous development of software and analysis systems that do not cause computer failures.
• Adapt the productive infrastructures to the requirements of the new industry. Fact that with companies like Cimelsa, experts in comprehensive installations, it is much easier.
• The protection of data located in the cloud.
• Know how to respond to current questions about natural resource management and energy saving.

Even so, Industry 4.0 has a great future and is going to produce important changes when it comes to activities in smart factories. Especially in aspects such as robot-assisted production, data analysis, quality control, and predictive maintenance of machines.

Each organization in the industrial sector must be aware of the technological needs and adaptations that it must apply. If they fail to understand the changes and opportunities that Industry 4.0 brings, they may see their market share reduced.

In addition, as has been seen, not betting on innovation in these technologies can cause your own maintenance department to lose strength and responsiveness.

Of course, betting on external companies to carry out installations or industrial maintenance, such as Cimelsa, is to have the security that the necessary tasks will be carried out with the most avant-garde technologies in the sector.

There are many occasions when, when thinking about maintenance, it is only related to unforeseen events or breakdowns that must be solved immediately. However, a critical part of maintenance is preventing these failures or mishaps. In the specific case of the maintenance of sports facilities, doing it correctly will prolong the useful life of the facility, as well as its performance.

The maintenance of sports facilities consists of planning and executing a set of operations that guarantee the useful life of the elements that make up said sports construction: pavements, equipment, structures, etc.

Within the maintenance of sports centers, there are many aspects to consider. Among others:

• Sports facilities: soccer fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, paddle tennis courts, swimming pool…
• Flooring: natural and artificial grass, earthen, wooden, ceramic…
• The common and general facilities: reception rooms, bathrooms, changing rooms…
• Technical installations: sanitation, plumbing, air conditioning, ventilation, fire protection, thermal installations and renewable energies, electrical installations…

Due to the magnitude of the sports facilities and, especially, in regard to the more technical part, it is possible to speak of the need for industrial maintenance in them.

Industrial maintenance is aimed at the control and repair, if necessary, of the equipment and systems of industrial facilities in order to guarantee their optimal operation.

The appropriate thing to carry out all the elementary tasks for this is to hire the service of industrial maintenance companies such as Cimelsa, which also has several decades of experience in the sector.

In addition to ensuring that all components of a sports facility function properly and extend its useful life (which will allow users to make use of it), maintenance of sports facilities enables:

• Comply with current regulations.
• Guarantee a continuous performance of machinery and rooms, avoiding their closure.
• Furthermore, such closure could lead to economic losses. Maintenance paralyzes them.
• Prevent irreparable damage from arising by preventing it.
• Such prevention also makes it easier to reduce replacement costs.
• Provide security to users.
• Have a documented maintenance follow-up that will help in future reviews.

As can be deduced, the relevance of maintenance work is more than justified and, therefore, it is necessary to leave these tasks in the hands of professionals.

Before we mentioned the most important aspects to consider within the maintenance of sports centers. However, this becomes even more relevant due to the difficult times we are living in.

Due to the Covid, these centers have seen their activity seriously affected, even having to close for a long time.

To resume their operation, they have had to adapt to new health needs and, in this regard, the maintenance of sports facilities is essential.

For example, one of the services offered by Cimelsa is air conditioning.

Regardless of whether it is winter or summer, the installation of air conditioning elements as well as their maintenance contribute to improving the thermal and air quality inside the sports halls.

Nor should we forget the importance of proper ventilation in sports centers, which in addition to renewing the air, allows:

• Avoid bad smells and condensation.
• Deter the accumulation of disease-causing pathogens.
• Prevent the concentration of toxic gases in case of leaks.

On the other hand, it is worth talking about the importance of a correct electrical installation, something in which Cimelsa’s work can also help in sports facilities.

Correct lighting in large areas ensures optimal safety levels, preventing accidents inside the facilities, as well as improving the performance of heating and air conditioning systems.

Therefore, the air conditioning, the production of Sanitary Hot Water and the electrical installation are some of the most complex parts within a sports facility and we must be aware of their importance.

The reason: an excellent sports management will be undermined if it is not accompanied by the appropriate thermal, air, ventilation or electrical conditions to carry out the activities of the center.

Due to this, the maintenance of sports facilities is something really essential and must be carried out by professionals.

Among the types of maintenance that exist, regarding the maintenance of sports halls or sports halls, three main ones can be highlighted.

This is routine maintenance performed at set time intervals or by a defined number of operating units, without prior investigation of the condition.

Today it is the most relevant maintenance used in any activity due to its considerable benefits:

• Reduces failures and downtime.
• It allows planning in advance all the tasks to be carried out based on the durability of the facilities to be maintained.
• It allows you to better manage tasks and optimize workers’ time.
• It represents an economic saving by avoiding substitutions or repairs.
• Increases the life of equipment and, consequently, of facilities.

This type of maintenance of sports facilities or any other type of facility is based on information and knowledge about the state of said facilities.

In this way, a prediction is made on the approximate duration of the components of each equipment and installation to find possible defects in their primary stages.

In order to implement this maintenance system and make it work properly, it is necessary to:

• Know the different types of failures that can occur, as well as their consequences in systems and facilities.
• Take into account the advantages and limitations of the techniques used in predictive maintenance to choose the most appropriate in each case.
• Have the work of a highly qualified team of technicians in this type of technique.

Therefore, again, it should be noted that it is advisable to opt for professionals specialized in maintenance who can guarantee a service of the highest quality.

This maintenance is simply based on the correction of errors or failures discovered in the equipment and / or facilities.

It is the most basic maintenance, since it consists of locating the fault and going on to repair it without further ado, so it does not require planning.

It is true that with this maintenance there are no stoppages for preventive maintenance, but the repairs are much more expensive and prolonged in time. This is because failures cannot be planned.

For this type of maintenance it is required:

• A well-dimensioned maintenance department, with the necessary operators available to carry out the repair in the shortest possible time.
• A high spare parts inventory to keep the necessary spare parts on hand and not cause long stops waiting for new parts.

To carry out the maintenance of sports facilities, it is necessary to have the services of a professional maintenance team.

The main job of this team is to follow the maintenance plan in sports facilities to carry out the scheduled tasks at the specified time.

In addition, professionals are also in charge of the daily tasks necessary and entrusted within said plan, such as:

• The order.
• Cleaning.
• Control of air and water quality.

Maintenance personnel must have the necessary knowledge to carry out assigned activities, from the simplest to the most complex.

In many cases and for multiple activities, facility personnel are trained to carry out some of them.

In others, it is opted for the hiring of external companies, such as Cimelsa, both to carry out the maintenance plan in sports facilities, as well as to execute it.

Just as for an industrial facility it is necessary to draw up an industrial maintenance plan that allows all tasks to be planned, a maintenance plan for sports centers is also essential.

The sports hall maintenance plan is the document that collects, after having carried out a professional study, the maintenance programs that must be carried out on the assets and facilities. The aim is to improve its effectiveness and performance.

The plan defines the frequencies with which the tasks will be carried out, the variables to be controlled, the procedures that will be used for this purpose and the budget allocated to it.

Within the maintenance plan in sports facilities, all types of necessary maintenance (predictive, preventive and corrective) will be collected.

As a maxim, there is talk of a “golden rule” that the industrial maintenance plan or any activity must comply with. This says that the activities planned and carried out according to it are only justified if:

• Teams improve in their performance.
• Errors are reduced.
• Operating costs are optimized.
• They decrease the risks.

Environmental performance is improved.

In a very general way, it can be said that there are three basic ways to develop an industrial maintenance plan or, in the case that specifically concerns us, a sports facility maintenance plan:

1. Prepare the plan based on the equipment manufacturer’s recommendations.
2. Use maintenance protocols according to the type of equipment to be maintained.
3. Create the maintenance plan based on the analysis of possible potential failures that equipment and facilities may suffer.

The most essential steps to follow to prepare the maintenance plan for sports facilities are as follows:

1º A list of the facilities that make up the sports complex must be drawn up: courts, fields, tracks, swimming pools, halls, changing rooms, etc.

2º Identify all the teams that are in each enclosure.

3rd Organization and study of the maintenance manuals for said equipment.

4th Subsequently, the maintenance tasks must be extracted from said analysis, specifying the type and their frequency.

5th Analysis of current regulations on maintenance in sports facilities or technical maintenance.

6th After said examination, these regulated tasks must also be included.

7º Finally, a compilation and confirmation of the plan obtained is made.

Sports facilities require continuous, careful and rigorous maintenance. That is the only way to solve detected damages in time: poor lights, water leaks, faults in the air conditioning and / or heating, etc.

Although it is difficult to see at first, economically, it is much worse, in the medium and long term, to wait for the only solution to be replacement. Therefore, resorting to multidisciplinary companies such as Cimelsa for maintenance management in sports facilities is key to saving time and money.

Industrial maintenance is essential for companies to function efficiently, since with it the necessary tasks are carried out so that their equipment and production systems operate perfectly.

However, prior to carrying out this maintenance, the appropriate industrial maintenance plan must be established that determines what tasks to carry out, when and how.

Industrial maintenance is the set of tasks and techniques carried out in industrial facilities in order to prevent or reduce equipment and machinery failures, anticipate them and monitor their operation.

All this allows, among other advantages:

• Extend the useful life of the company’s assets.
• Avoid workplace accidents.
• Reduce productivity stoppages due to inoperative machinery.
• Reduce costs.

To carry out the activities, specialized companies such as Cimelsa, use industrial maintenance technologies, such as, among others:

• Combustion analyzers.
• Sound level meter.
• Electrical network analyzer.
• Non-invasive fluid flow meter.
• Anemometer.
• Thermographic camera.

In order to carry out the necessary actions for maintenance in industries, it is essential to have an industrial maintenance plan.

An industrial maintenance plan is that set of tasks that must be performed on equipment or systems and that are scheduled over time to reduce risks of damage or loss.

This plan reflects the management model of each company and it determines the resources to be invested in maintenance.

It is, therefore, a planning by means of a calendar with the ownership of the company, on the related actions. Therefore, for custom planning and maintenance, companies should have professional services such as Cimelsa, experts in industrial facilities and maintenance.

The importance of a correct industrial maintenance plan is such that its preparation is a basic task if you want to improve efficiency in the industry.

There are many objectives that the industrial maintenance plan intends to fulfill and from which the relevance of its elaboration derives.

A correct maintenance plan allows obtaining data to determine the cause of repetitive failures, the definition of weak points in the facilities and the mean time of safe operation of an asset (MTBF, or what is the same, Mean Time Between Failutes, which is the average time that a device works well between two failures).

OEE stands for Overall Equiment Effectiveness, that is, the overall effectiveness of the equipment.

Greater efficiency makes it possible to make more realistic forecasts about the operation of a company, its productive capacity and its income.

Improving the availability of the equipment is one of the most important goals of the implementation of the industrial maintenance plan and its execution.

With the appropriate tasks, it will be possible to avoid or minimize their breakdowns and their consequences, such as unexpected stops in production and their derived effects.

By correctly planning the work to be done, there is a decrease in human resources costs by correctly distributing the tasks.

In addition, maintenance allows you to reduce inventory in the warehouse by adjusting the availability of stock.

A good industrial maintenance plan and its implementation make it possible to reduce maintenance costs in the long run.

This is so since during the revision tasks, possible failures can be detected in time, thus avoiding or reducing costs due to urgent contingencies of corrective maintenance.

With the correct maintenance of the equipment, they can extend their useful life with optimal levels of operability and efficiency.

When creating an industrial maintenance plan, it must be carried out based on the requirements of each company and the industrial maintenance regulations.

Taking these factors into account, the industrial maintenance plan will include different types of maintenance, such as preventive, corrective and predictive.

For its correct preparation, several steps must be followed.

It is impossible for the industrial maintenance plan to work if you have not established what you want to achieve with it.

The company must determine the objectives that it wants to cover and guide how they will be controlled in the future, because only in this way can the effectiveness of the plan be measured.

Some of the most common goals that are usually set are:

• Avoid legal sanctions.
• Increase the operating time of the machinery.
• Reduce unused stock.
• Avoid workplace accidents.
• Optimize available human resources.

It is important to take into account what is the available budget to be able to carry out all the actions.

Within the industrial maintenance plan, this is one of the most relevant phases.

An inventory of the equipment susceptible to maintenance must be carried out, with its corresponding guarantee periods and detailed instructions on its maintenance in accordance with legal regulations.

An ideal way to classify equipment is based on its function and whether or not it is replaceable, with a simple identification system based on numerical coding.

In addition, each team will be associated with the spare parts and consumables that are used regularly in its operation.

In this phase, all the relevant information and documents of the machinery will be available, such as:

• Production model.
• Maintenance manual.
• Maintenance recommendations given by the manufacturer.
• Technical data.
• Drawings and exploded view of the equipment provided by the manufacturer.
• Failure and repair characteristics.
• Legislative and safety factors.
• Economic factors (cost of equipment material or monitoring cost, for example).
• Maintenance history. This is especially relevant, especially taking into account what was the last maintenance date, since it will be the starting point to define the next one.

Once all the documentation and information is available, it is necessary to analyze in depth the specifications and recommendations made by the manufacturers and the warranty periods for the equipment.

Normally, these documents contain all the guidelines to be followed on preventive and corrective maintenance, which allows defining the frequency of operations in the industrial maintenance plan. Among the information provided by these manuals is:

• The approximate time of useful life of each equipment.
• The preventive maintenance operations to be carried out.
• Deadlines for reviews.
• Frequency or interval of operations.
• Recommendations on the products to use for maintenance.
• Security measures.

In the same way, all the operations that are obliged by the industrial maintenance regulation must be compiled.

Which operators are available in the company and their specialties will be considered. To do this, you can make an inventory of personnel and their costs per hour.

However, it is important to assume that not all companies have, within their staff, trained professionals to carry out the industrial maintenance plan and its execution.

In these cases, they must turn to external companies that provide these services, such as Cimelsa, which has more than four decades of experience in the sector.

It is also important that, after the assignment of managers, business activities are coordinated with maintenance activities.

Now, with all the information available and studied, the interventions to be carried out in the maintenance plan will be defined. This can be done for fixed periods of time or based on other metrics.

The set of operations that will have to be carried out at established periods will be established and that will be executed when the scheduled time arrives. These operations are known as routine maintenance.

These routines will include those recommended by the manufacturer and the legal ones.

When the frequency of operations is carried out based on time periods, the adjustment will be made taking into account the expiration dates, so they may be monthly, semi-annual, annually, etc.

If the frequency is established based on other variables, the frequency of the interventions is programmed in relation to the value of these metrics.

In addition to the aforementioned, when it comes to planning preventive industrial maintenance, it will be necessary to consider if the work will be carried out with a stopped machine, analyze the necessary resources and the duration of the tasks, and if the necessary spare parts and machinery are available to carry carry out operations on the established date.

It is essential that the entire maintenance plan is documented under the established schedule for interventions on each asset.

For this, it is advisable to have CMMS, which are the software that allows you to have this documentation digitized, help automate maintenance processes and allow these tasks to be performed more efficiently.

From here, the prepared plan will begin to be executed.

• Carrying out the tasks of the plan: the tasks will be carried out on time, for which there must be alerts that warn in advance of the due dates.
• Documentation of the work carried out: all interventions, preventive, corrective or predictive, must be documented. For this, each operator must complete the work orders.
• Analysis and exploitation of information: certain parts of the maintenance plans are living documents that must be corrected and adjusted as they are revised. For this, it is very important to take into account the control of maintenance indicators or KPIs, in order to draw conclusions on points for improvement and go ahead in future reviews.

The industrial maintenance plan proposes and decides how often the industrial facilities and their equipment must be reviewed and checked.

As mentioned above, said frequency can be established based on a fixed periodicity or otherwise, such as hours of operation.

Maintenance tasks with a fixed periodicity can involve maintenance on equipment that has not worked and, therefore, has not worn out in a certain period.

For example, in hotels, maintenance checks are made at least one month before opening. In this way, we can anticipate the entry of customers and make repairs if necessary.

In this case, two in-depth reviews are carried out, the one at the beginning of the season and the one at the end, so that the following year it is foreseen (in a report) what tasks will have to be done.

When starting an industrial project, it is necessary to assess what type of installations are necessary to carry out the production process efficiently. For this, it will be necessary to count on the support, work and experience of companies specialized in comprehensive installations for industrial projects.

Comprehensive installations are the entire set of systems and equipment required by companies to carry out their productive activity.

Within industrial projects, different types of installations can be included, covering a large number of fields. Some of them are as follows.

• Precision conditioning systems.
• Heating system, either with centralized or individual boiler and radiators.
• Solar heating.
• VRV (Variable Refrigerant Flow) systems.
• Air-air heat pump.
• Water-water system.
• Air-water system.
• Reversible underfloor heating.
• Air conditioning for industrial processes.
• Direct expansion systems.

• Low, medium, high and very high pressure services.
• Central heating installations.
• Reception facilities in buildings.

• Electric panels.
• Electromechanical.
• Electropneumatics.
• Electrical connection.
• Exterior and interior lighting.
• Transformation centers.
• Generators.
• Distribution.

• Ventilation in infrastructures.
• Smoke evacuation ducts.
• Renovation and supply of outside air for air conditioning.
• Variable refrigerant volume.

• Public address.
• Remote audio and video controls.
• Sounding.
• Multimedia installations.

• CO detection (in gyms, workspaces, garages).
• Conventional fire detection.
• Extinguishing with sprinklers and BIE’s.
• Pumping groups.
• Gaseous agent extinguishing systems.
• Fireproofing.

• Controls by video surveillance in IP system.
• Controls by video surveillance in a closed system.

• Pressure groups.
• Exterior and interior plumbing networks.
• Sanitation networks.

• Geothermal energy.
• Photovoltaic Solar Energy,
• Solar thermal.
• Biomass

• Ethernet networks.
• Optical fiber.
• Structured cabling.
• Voice and data.

• Control of facilities.
• Centralized building management.

• Exchange boilers.
• Economizers.
• Aero coolants.

• Alarms
• Communication.
• Thermoregulation.
• Communication.
• Comprehensive automation.
• Energy management.
• Sound diffusion.

• Door frames.
• Access control.

• For food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, aerospace, nanotechnology, etc.

• Energy efficiency studies.
• Legalization and management of facilities.
• Reports by thermography.
• Management and optional control of projects.

Companies that provide comprehensive services to buildings and industrial facilities, such as Cimelsa, provide a global solution to the needs of the client who is going to start their project or when it is already in operation.

These companies can be in charge of directing the entire project from scratch, coordinating its execution, as well as the start-up and maintenance of industrial facilities, or offer specific services in any of the areas of comprehensive facilities.

The purpose of these experts is to ensure that their clients focus solely on their core business. Meanwhile, they are in charge of managing and providing most of the auxiliary services for their facilities.

The team of professionals working in companies that provide comprehensive services to buildings and facilities is usually made up of engineers, installers and specialist technicians from each area.

Comprehensive service companies, which are known as multi-service companies, do not have their own agreement that covers all their activities globally.

For this reason, different situations can arise: from the application of the collective agreement of the main activity offered, to the application of the agreement of the activity contracted on each occasion.

In any case, in the case of industry, this type of service is only offered by qualified professionals who know the current regulations for the installation and maintenance of industrial projects, with the responsibility that this entails.

It is in whose hands the management of industrial projects lies.

The integral management of industrial projects consists of providing an integral service putting all the disciplines of engineering for the benefit of the industries. This involves everything from design, through manufacturing and assembly, to commissioning and industrial maintenance.

For this, it is necessary to have a multidisciplinary team that controls and manages each and every aspect of the project. Which, as has been said, must be addressed from all areas of engineering.

Depending on the objectives set, it is possible to differentiate three types of industrial projects:

• Of facilities and industrial plants. Focused on the construction of facilities or industrial plants for various sectors of the industry.
• Projects for industrial production lines and processes. With them, the networks, lines and production systems essential for the manufacture of products are designed and activated.
• For the design of equipment, machines and their components. They are destined to create from the design of prototypes, to the construction of the final equipment.

Although the three types of industrial projects mentioned have different purposes, they share certain common phases and structures, required for their management and development.

Industrial project management will go through various stages. The contracting of companies that provide these services can be done only for the main phases or for the entire set if it is about comprehensive facilities.

At first, the client will raise their needs with the professionals and an advice will be given. Once the first proposals have been presented and the most basic guidelines agreed, the design will proceed.

Hand in hand with qualified professionals in the areas to work, a preliminary study of the project is carried out. In this, the viability of the same is assessed before starting it up.

For this, the bases established by the company to which the service is going to be provided, as well as the current legal regulations, are taken into account.

In this phase, among other tasks, objectives are defined, plans are drawn, tasks are distributed, resources are chosen, the schedule is planned and the budget is developed.

All this by applying data to a model or set of them, to achieve qualitative and quantitative results.

The resulting document, where all these aspects will be reflected, will serve as a presentation of the project in front of clients and investors, as a guide to start working and as an explanatory reference.

At this stage the information described in the design originates elements of facilities and equipment already in their physical and material form.

It is an industrial manufacturing activity in which certain materials are converted into capital goods. This transformation occurs in accordance with the provisions of the previous phase.

During this activity, again following the information established in the design project, all the elements that make up a team or installation are assembled.

This is done in such a way that they fulfill the purpose for which they were created.

Once all the components of the equipment have been assembled and installed, it will start up to check its operation.

In this way, you will see for the first time how the installation responds and if it fulfills its mission.

The commissioning of any of the types of integral installations within the industry must be carried out by the same professionals who carried out its implementation.

This is so, if there is a manufacturing or assembly error, they are the ones who must provide a solution.

To this end, a monitoring and evaluation will be carried out in the first moments to detect possible deviations and apply the corrections.

The relationship of the industrial company with which it offers comprehensive services to buildings and facilities, may end with the final delivery and its start-up, or continue with industrial maintenance tasks.

An industrial maintenance company is one that performs all the revision work of industrial facilities to guarantee the correct functioning of the equipment and guarantee efficiency, quality and safety in the production processes.

Within industrial maintenance, different types of maintenance can be distinguished, which differ from each other by the class of tasks carried out in each one:

• Predictive industrial maintenance.
• Preventive industrial maintenance.
• Corrective industrial maintenance.
• Early industrial maintenance.
• Industrial maintenance in use.

Industrial maintenance is one that covers the set of aspects and care operations that industrial equipment and facilities need throughout their useful life. All this in order to preserve its functional benefits in optimal conditions.

To meet this objective, this maintenance will be carried out from all the necessary approaches (predictive, corrective …).

In order to guarantee their correct productive development, industrial facilities should have an integrated industrial maintenance system.

The integrated industrial maintenance system is the planning and control tool for effective maintenance management of equipment and facilities within industries.

Its purpose is to maximize productivity, increasing the number of assets available to the business. In addition, it reduces and controls the costs derived from any failure in the equipment.

Comprehensive industrial maintenance management tasks use GMAO (Computer Assisted Maintenance Management) software. This is made up of different sections that make it easy to keep an in-depth control of all the tasks carried out by maintenance teams.

In this way, not only the necessary analysis is carried out:

• It allows a better organization.
• It makes it possible to manage assets, personnel and resources.
• Facilitates making faster and more flexible decisions on objective criteria.

All his added to the advantages of industrial maintenance.

The advantages derived from industrial maintenance are considerable. Among them are:

• Reduction of equipment downtime due to breakdowns.
• Cost reduction (in repairs, replacements, etc.).
• Increase in the useful life of the equipment.
• Quality improvement in work activity.
• Reduction of risks due to occupational accidents.
• Irreparable damage is prevented.
• Documented monitoring of maintenance, especially with the use of CMMS.

Once the multiple possibilities of comprehensive industrial facilities have been clarified, do not doubt that having the security and guarantee of a comprehensive facilities and maintenance services company such as Cimelsa, with several decades of experience, is essential to achieve the objectives of your industrial project. .