The following strategies can help your team reduce operating costs and boost efficiency and bottom lines while maintaining reliability and supporting other facility goals:

Effective FM starts with the end in mind. When your entire team is aligned around a common purpose, they can work together more effectively to achieve the desired outcomes. For facility managers in manufacturing, that means delivering high-performance environments that optimize production and are healthy, safe, secure, resilient, reliable, and compliant—all while protecting asset value and running operations at peak efficiency –no easy feat.

But first, you need a finely tuned strategy. Define the key performance indicators that will measure success. Map out the roadmap to guide your team in hitting each milestone. Then, let the data shine, tracking progress and singling out areas for improvement. By focusing on desired outcomes rather than checklists of activities, FM teams are more likely to invest in innovative ideas and tools to maximize financial performance.

The digital transformation and smart building revolution has arrived, arming facility managers with a new tactical arsenal of efficiency -- and data is the ammunition. It starts by centralizing all facility data into a single, easily digestible platform so they can view all energy usage, equipment vitals, and operational activities at a glance.

JLL Serve, an end-to-end digital FM application, is one of these powerful lenses. It uses AI to integrate data from connected and non-connected assets into one interface. Systems like these give facility managers everything they need to do their jobs efficiently in one place.

Manufacturing facilities typically have separate teams and processes to manage spaces outside and inside the yellow line — where production happens. While having separate teams serves an important purpose, integrating processes, technologies and data across that boundary can help create efficiencies.

A coordinated approach can unearth massive efficiency gains, especially when investing in innovative technologies. An AI-driven inventory management system, for example, is exponentially more powerful when used by both FM and the team managing production line equipment.

Manufacturing FM teams face many challenges today, but that needn’t get in the way of cost savings. By aligning your team around strategic outcomes and incorporating data and technology, you can run safe, reliable and sustainable facilities while staying within budget.

Want to get the most from your manufacturing facilities? Contact JLL today.