The importance of uptime for commercial facilities

The importance of uptime for commercial facilities

27 November, 2025

A machine that sits idle isn’t just an inconvenience. It slows daily work, delays cleaning schedules, and can lead to complaints. Car parks deal with oil drips and dust all day, office buildings cycle through thousands of people, and contractors need equipment they can trust during every shift.

How downtime affects car parks, commercial properties, and contractors

A cleaning machine failure means more manual work, lower productivity, and more strain on staff. Public car parks feel this hard because floor grime builds quickly. A single missed cycle can leave the whole place looking neglected.

A quick example: a four-hour outage in a public car park

A maintenance team at a multilevel car park planned to clean at 2 a.m. when traffic was low. Their machine failed because the squeegee blades were cracked. A four-hour shutdown meant shifting the work to the next night, bringing higher costs and complaints from long-term tenants. A $40 part caused a chain reaction.

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Nisal Dissanayaka

Engineering leader at a pre-IPO startup