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Equipment IMS
Equipment Information Management System
"By more effectively managing our equipment we decreased equipment failure, decreased downtime and increased profitability." - Riaan van Wyk (Westvalve Engineering)
Whether you are a cost centre in charge of keeping your equipment operational or a company leasing equipment to third parties one thing is certain, you need to deal with routine maintenance, unscheduled repairs, equipment failure, accident investigations, accident prevention, inventory control and personnel records on a daily basis.
Nerve EMS (Equipment Management System) brings maintenance management, risk management, personnel management and inventory control into a single system. Because all the factors influencing your uptime, safety record and profitability are managed from a single system you are always in complete control. Routine maintenance is automatically scheduled whilst automated reports give you a complete service, repair, usage and failure history of any piece of equipment within seconds.
The primary objectives of Nerve EMS are to:
- Prevent equipment failure
- Minimize unscheduled repairs
- Enforce routine maintenance
- Increased profitability
Nerve EMS attains these objectives by:
- Equipment usage scheduling and monitoring
- Automated maintenance scheduling
- Comprehensive service, repair, usage and failure reports
- Operator handling reports
- More accurate equipment maintenance costing
More specifically Nerve EMS's functional features include:
- Resource Scheduling
- Task assignment and scheduling
- Task "pushing" to ensure that tasks are completed within allotted time frames
- Service, repair, usage and failure reports
- Equipment failure investigation and reporting
- Accident investigation and reporting
- Automated maintenance scheduling
- Operator profiles
- Equipment maintenance costing
Some of Nerve EMS's technical features include:
- Usability - Windows and web based front-ends
- Stability - Unix/Linux back-end
- Multi User - User accounts with configurable access rights
- Multi Department - User accounts can be defined at department or workgroup level
- Multi Site - Multiple local and remote sites can function as one
- Data Integrity - Relational database, RAID server with automated backups
- Data Security - All communications use the latest encryption technologies
- Multi-Tier - Windows/Web front-end, Application Server, Relational Database
- Low Bandwidth - Compression and caching technologies drastically reduce network traffic
- Easy Deployment - "Online Install" and "Live Update"
- Redundancy - RAID server, "self healing" TCP/IP connections
For more information on Nerve EMS, questions on its suitability for your particular situation or customisation and consultation services please contact us.
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