Ventureforth’s latest addition to its vMobile Suite, vWork Scheduler, is designed to be a one-stop shop for maintenance technicians and supervisors interacting with Oracle eAM. Besides offering planning and scheduling functions, it lets personnel in the field drill down to asset and work-order details, issue and return parts, close work orders, enter time, and create work requests.
“Mobile personnel need deep functionality in a self-supporting environment whether or not there is a signal,” says Kevin Kling, a product director at Ventureforth.
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Asset fault management
Unplanned faults hinder productivity, but mobility minimizes the impact. EDI partnered with SCHAD to deliver EXTEND7000 to users of IBM Maximo EAM in automated environments. With EXTEND7000, engineers receive live, filtered alarm notifications from SCADA- or PLC-controlled assets on their mobile device so they can respond within seconds and then return quickly to planned work.
“Users can leverage machine data to interpret and predict future asset behavior right from their handhelds,” says Jim Lindsay, a vice president at EDI.