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Top 10 Most Common Industrial Cleaning Challenges (and How We Solve Them)
Industrial facilities, factories, power generation and warehouses face a wide variety of niche-dependent industrial cleaning challenges. Our team have delivered tailored solutions to these challenges for over 40 years – check out the 10 most common trends in the guide below.
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Industrial facilities and manufacturing sites hold an integral position in our society and economy; this is especially true for warehouses with the exponential rise in online shopping and delivered goods. They are the core centres working behind-the-scenes of mainstream society to give us our everyday goods, luxury items, groceries and Amazon prime deliveries.
But as the variety of types of manufacturing and industry are amazingly broad, so are the types of industrial cleaning and maintenance challenges they face. In this blog post, we’ll explore the top 10 problems that we’ve faced over our 40+ years of experience, as well as how we provide effective solutions to them.
Don’t let industrial cleaning challenges hold back your productivity and safety on site.
Neglecting specialised and industrial cleaning in a facility can lead to a both expensive and dangerous consequences.
Beyond the obvious decline in aesthetics, unaddressed dirt, grime, and contaminants can compromise the safety of your environment. It can lead to corrosion of critical equipment and structures and increase the risk of accidents due to slippery surfaces.
Non-compliance with industry regulations and environmental standards can result in costly fines and reputational damage. Moreover, neglected cleaning can lead to a decrease in operational efficiency and even hinder the longevity of your assets.
In the industrial world, cleanliness is not merely a superficial concern; it is a fundamental pillar of safety, productivity, and sustainability.
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Our Top 10 Most Common Industrial Cleaning Challenges
1. Heavy Equipment Residue
Industrial machinery and equipment often leave behind stubborn residues, from grease to paint spatters. These residues can build over time, and in some cases they can harden if exposed to moisture. A recent project we completed at a manufacturing firm had a build up of a sand/clay mixture around their machinery, which had hardened after a flood. Unaddressed equipment residues can prove to be very hard to remove without specialised solutions.
Our Solution:
Our team use specialised cleaning agents and techniques that are tailored to the specific residue. This ensures a spotless finish without harming your equipment.
2. Dust and Debris in Hard to Reach Areas
Industrial facilities have nooks and crannies that collect dust and debris over time. You’d be surprised the hidden places where dust builds! Many high-level places in industrial facilities often get overlooked during regular cleaning, e.g. purlins, girders, roofing panels, lighting infrastructure, high-level gantries and pipework.
Our Solution:
We employ specialised equipment such as MEWPs and industrial vacuums to effectively clean the most inaccessible areas. Check out our recent high-level warehouse cleaning blog to see how our teams conduct high-level cleaning projects.
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3. CRITICAL: Factory Fire Prevention
We don’t need to tell you the dangers of factory or industrial fires, either for the safety of your employees or the cost and effort involved with post-fire restoration. If your facility involves dust, oil, grease, flammable chemicals or other fuels for fire, regular specialised cleaning is absolutely essential to reduce the risk of fire.
Our Solution:
We offer industry leading fire prevention services to industrial facilities, manufacturing and factories. We use specialised equipment and methods to remove oil, dust and contaminants from infrastructure, machinery and high-level environments. In cases where fires have occurred, we use high-powered industrial vacuums and specialised methods to remove ash and residues.
4. Corroded Surfaces
Corroded surfaces in industrial facilities can weaken structures and machinery. Corrosion can be caused by many factors, such as moisture exposure, chemical reactions with industrial pollutants, contaminants and impurities, mechanical stress or lack of protective coatings. We often deal with corroded surfaces on tanks, silos, or large amounts of building infrastructure where significant corrosion has been left to build over time.
Our Solution:
You can extend the lifespan of your assets through regular inspections and applying anti-corrosion coatings and undergoing effective maintenance practices. Check out our recent project where we stored and painted a rusted storage silo in this blog post.
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5. Industrial Basements
Industrial basements often house essential machinery for industrial facilities, however they are often also dumping grounds for disused equipment and debris. They can also be highly dangerous areas on site due to pipework and machinery, circulation of industrial waste products and high voltage areas.
We have extensive experience in the glass manufacturing industry, where basements can be filled with hazardous oil buildups and piles of cullet. Build ups of contaminants, waste products or debris can be highly dangerous yet difficult to clean due to the hazardous nature of the area and job.
Our Solution:
We approach every industrial basement job on a very case-by-case basis owing to the site-specific hazards of different basements. Trained, knowledgeable and Health-and-Safety conscious operatives are essential in order to carry out works safely and efficiently.
6. Production and Operation Disruptions
Many industrial facilities, especially manufacturing and warehouses, operate 24/7. This obviously makes cleaning during production a logistical nightmare. However, if you don’t keep on top of regular cleaning or deep cleaning of production machinery, this increases the risk of breakages and inefficiencies which will cost you time and money down the line. You don’t want that, we don’t want that, so finding effective cleaning solutions that don’t impede your production is essential.
Our Solution:
We put together customised cleaning schedules in order to minimise disruptions to your operations while maintaining a clean environment. If your facility has even brief shutdowns to change a specific production process or something similar, we can take advantage of those times to conduct effective cleans.
7. Environmental Compliance
If you work in industry, then you are no stranger to the stringent environmental regulations and best practices that facilities must follow in order to stay compliant. Proper disposal of waste and cleaning chemicals is essential.
Our Solution:
We consult with specialist waste disposal companies to ensure that environmental best practises are met. We are proud that our cleaning services allowed our client’s facility to pass BRCGS Food Safety Audits with a AA+ grade.
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8. Post Project Clean Up
Any construction or renovation on an industrial site often leaves significant dust and debris in its wake. You don’t want your impressive new building or renovation to be tarnished by construction waste.
Our Solution:
Effective cleaning needs to be done quickly and effectively so it doesn’t delay the opening of the new construction. We complete most deep cleans and sparkle cleans of facilities to bring them to spotless condition before the grand opening.
9. Product Contamination
We’ve had a few clients in the past that have have serious complaints from their customers about contaminated products. Product contamination can happen extremely easily in a dirty and unkept facility; this is especially true for oily or greasy manufacturing environments. Dust and particles can contaminant machinery and production lines easily, which means you can inadvertently deliver contaminated goods to your customers. If you manufacture food or beverage related goods, this is potentially disastrous.
Our Solution:
Industrial cleaning needs to be specific to the facility and type of manufacturing in question so that problem areas can be identified and combatted. Effective cleaning needs to be ingrained in workplace culture to ensure a consistent and maintained clean environment.
10. Sheer Size of the Space
Factories, warehouses and manufacturing plants are often massive in size, even more so with multiple buildings and an extensive site infrastructure. Keeping on top on the sheer scale of this cleaning, especially specialist cleans and deep cleans, can be overwhelming for in-house teams.
Our Solution:
Professional industrial cleaners can plan and execute large scale cleans efficiently and to a competitive timeframe. We are extremely proud of the work ethic and ability of our team to deliver effective solutions to surfaces with different cleaning needs.
At Kingfisher Industrial Services, we understand the diverse and complex cleaning challenges faced by industrial facilities. With our expertise, state of the art equipment and commitment to safety and environmental responsibility, we are well-equipped to tackle these challenges. We are industry leaders in ensuring our clients’ facilities remain clean, safe and compliant.
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