WHAT’S AHEAD?
Torben Lund Andersen, Head of Technology Development and Autonomy at Nilfisk, looks at the key trends driving the current and future development of professional floor cleaning.
It’s no easy task working in the commercial cleaning industry. As an owner, there is a need to secure the right equipment, reduce costs, and exceed customer expectations. As an operator, there is a need to constantly improve productivity, enhance safety and protect the environment.
And today, more than ever, there is a need to have a firm grasp on new technologies – understanding what is available, recognising which technologies will best serve their customers, and knowing how to use those technologies to their fullest potential.
While the cleaning industry has not historically been recognised for its innovation, today’s most desired and high performing cleaning equipment does, in fact, include technological advancements that benefit cleaning professionals, facility managers, employees and building owners alike. The following are just a few of the technologies that are positively disrupting the cleaning industry.
26 | COVER STORY WATER AND SOLUTION
SYSTEMS While neither disc nor orbital floor scrubbers are new to the cleaning industry, the systems that control and regulate water usage as well as the technologies that power the scrub deck itself continue to evolve to improve cleanliness, safety, sustainability, and operator productivity.
Using excess water when scrubbing is simply wasteful and presents a safety hazard, and using too much chemical is environmentally unsound. Having to make multiple passes and repeatedly stop to dump and fill a solution or recovery tank is time-consuming. But today’s more advanced scrubbing technologies allow the operator to automatically switch between chemical-free, water-only, or varying degrees of detergent use; change down pressure; change flow rates based on machine speed; and rotate an entire orbital scrub deck.
As a result, operators can effortlessly transition between different floor types and address varying degrees of traffic and dirt patterns; improve productivity by reducing dump and fill cycles as well as multiple cleaning passes; and deliver more consistently clean floors.
Ensuring an operator has as many of these technologies as possible on one machine further heightens their ability to clean effectively, productively and safely.
AUTONOMOUS
EQUIPMENT As with many new technologies, groundbreaking work was done in the military that has laid the groundwork for commercialising driverless cleaning machines. Take the mapping technology from the military, and add the increased capabilities for computing power in a smaller footprint made possible by smartphones, and combine those with lower cost optics and sensors, and you have the recipe for autonomous cleaning.
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