Hotel Maintenance Management- hotel engineering
What is Maintenance? Maintenance is a combination of actions carried out to retain an item/machine/equipment/system/plant in order to restore it to an acceptable working condition. The purpose of maintenance is to increase the system availability. The term maintenance covers the following aspects: a) Inspection of the item/plant/equipment/machine/system. b) Repair of the defects if any c) Minor modification in order to reduce maintenance efforts. The terms maintenance and engineering have different meanings to different people. In some hotels in recent years, the terms have been combined under the heading of facilities management or facilities engineering. The maintenance and engineering department has been treated as a catch-all department, which literally means that if a problem is not related to food, marketing or sales, housekeeping or accounting, then it must be a maintenance and engineering responsibility. Introduction and Scope in Hotels • Works almost behind t...