a university hospital in Sweden with facility services from a global cleaning contractor
How a Swedish University Hospital Saved 1,506 Cleaning Hours a Year on Care Units
A documented Swedish university hospital saved 1,506 annual cleaning hours on care-unit floors after compact autonomous scrubbers replaced a heavier manual process.
- 1,506
- Hours saved
- 55 min
- Per room
- 6.4 hr
- Daily saved
- 2 rms/hr
- Throughput
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Care-Unit Floors That Outpaced Staffing
A university hospital in Sweden needed daily cleaning on care-unit hard floors that stayed infection-control ready without tying two employees and three machines to every shift.
Published reporting says basic room cleaning had not kept pace across all care rooms within a year, raising cost, image, and hygiene concerns for leadership.
Manual methods burned time on equipment swaps while skilled cleaners could have focused on higher-touch detail work.
- Clean every care room on a predictable cycle
- Reduce labor tied to multiple machines
- Improve measurable hygiene on hard floors
Compact Scrubbers With One Operator
Facility services introduced compact scrubber-dryers sized for care-unit rooms, allowing one employee to clean about two rooms per hour on published routes.
The new process replaced three legacy machines and a two-person rhythm with a single operator path that leadership said was easier to schedule and supervise.
Teams paired the rollout with ATP and slip testing to confirm floors met clinical presentation standards after the change.
- Pilot scrubbers on one care unit before expansion
- Train operators on room-to-room turnover timing
- Verify ATP and slip results after each shift block
More Than Fifteen Hundred Hours Back
The hospital reported saving about 55 minutes per room, totaling roughly 6.41 hours per day and 1,506 hours per year on care-unit floor cleaning.
Published hygiene checks cited ATP readings at 0 RLU and successful slip tests after the new scrubbing approach.
Leadership described higher cleaning quality with fewer machines to maintain while keeping flexibility for changing census and room turnover.
What US Hospitals Should Benchmark
This is a documented real-world example overseas, not a Service Robot Co. deployment. It shows how compact scrubbers can compress care-unit floor time without dropping measurable hygiene checks.
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