A Healthcare Network's Overnight Floor Care Moves to Autonomous Scrubbers

Floor care that ran into the night

Floor care in a large healthcare facility rarely waits for a convenient hour. Corridors and shared areas have to be finished before the day arrives, and the work happens while the building is still busy around it.

For this network, the nightly job absorbed about 16 manhours of labor. A crew of three carried it, and a finished clean took around 8 hours from start to end, all of it inside the overnight window.

The pressure was structural. The same crew had to cover the same floor on the same schedule, night after night, and the overnight hours left little slack for anything else.

• About 16 manhours of floor-care labor each night
• A crew of three people
• About 8 hours from start to a finished clean

Two scrubbers and one technician reassigned

The network put two autonomous floor scrubbers on the overnight route, with the night shift autonomous scrubber run from about 8:30 pm until about 2 am. The machines did the bulk of the floor work while the building settled into its quietest hours.

Ahead of the scrubbers, one floor technician dry-mopped the surface so the machines had a clear run. That step still needed a person, and it stayed on the crew.

The second technician was freed for other tasks, and the crew came down from three people to two. Autonomous coverage reached roughly 50,000 square feet a night, according to the vendor account.

• Two autonomous floor scrubbers ran from about 8:30 pm to about 2 am
• One technician dry-mopped ahead of the scrubbers
• The second technician moved to other tasks

What the deployment reported

Nightly floor-care labor fell from 16 manhours to 5, eleven fewer manhours on each shift. The crew went from three people to two, and time to a finished clean dropped from 8 hours to 5.

The scrubbers covered roughly 50,000 square feet a night autonomously. Taken together, the labor, headcount, time and coverage figures describe a floor-care operation that no longer depended on a full crew for every task.

Every figure here is vendor-reported. Read them as the supplier's account of one deployment, and measure your own manhours and cleaning time before drawing conclusions for another building.

Where a floor scrubber lease fits

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