If you’re managing an industrial facility and not taking your cleaning procedures seriously you could be leaving money on the table. But you might also be running a serious risk. Many facility managers and owners see hiring professional industrial cleaners as a waste of money, but it’s just the opposite. Just like having insurance for your facility and equipment, industrial cleaning is an investment that can both cover you for liabilities, but also open up new opportunities for your business. Here’s a primer on the benefits of industrial cleaning, from the obvious to the unexpected.

Industrial cleaning is a broad term for cleaning services in specialized facilities such as factories, warehouses, medical offices, and any other environment that requires special cleaning. Often, industrial cleaning uses special products or follows specific practices to comply with laws and regulations. Industrial cleaning also accounts for disposal, in the case where debris must be carefully handled. 

What would you do if you could no longer access the files saved on your servers? There is a good chance that your daily business operations would grind to a halt. You must do everything you can to keep your server room clean, which means being aware of the danger posed by dust in server rooms.

Server rooms are great at picking up dust, dirt, and debris. Unfortunately, this can damage essential systems and cost thousands to fix. That's why server room cleaning is essential when operating any business that stores vital electronic information in-house and is an important part of data center preventive maintenance. 

If there is one thing we learned since Spring 2020, it's that cleaning needs to be an integral part of every workspace’s schedule. This is as true for your data center as it is for anywhere else. 

With so many responsibilities being faced by data center management today, consistent facility cleanings can easily go overlooked. Here's why regular maintenance is a good investment for your organization and a must for any data center. 

Cost Benefits of Regular Data Center Cleaning

With a global scale of 138.9 billion USD in 2020, the data industry has become one of the most prolific markets in the digital era today. Data has become such a precious resource because of the benefit it brings to successful business decision-making. Still, for it to have any value, it must manage it effectively. Doing so is no small task, as data center managers have their hands full with the number of responsibilities it takes to ensure the successful maintenance of the facilities which store the 21st century's most valuable commodity. 

Having a repeatable and scalable data center cleaning checklist and procedure is important for many reasons. For one, having clean facilities is just part of good operational practices. Additionally, because data centers are sensitive, controlled environments, their cleanliness is important to their functionality. If dust and debris collect on or inside of your data center equipment, that equipment could fail, putting your customers’ data at risk. When the data you are charged with protecting is put at risk, so is your company’s reputability, reliability, and bottom line.

Keeping data centers clean is an important part of keeping them up and running. Allowing dirt, dust, and other debris to build up on the plenum beneath the floor that blows cool air upward, the flooring itself designed to eliminate static electricity, and other features that keep the data center functioning puts the entire facility at risk for malfunction and downtime. When your data center goes down, your customer information is at risk as is the reputation and security of your company as a whole. You should adhere to the following data center maintenance best practices to minimize risks and operate your data center efficiently and cost-effectively.

My interview today is with Brett Tyrell, the Director of National Data Center Cleaning Sales at Pegasus. 

Data centers are vulnerable to all manner of contamination. From the environment, dirt, dust, pollen, and other particulates can quickly accumulate within a server room. Mechanical components can produce their own forms of dust, and even humans who enter the data center can leave contamination in the form of dead skin, hair, and clothing fibers.