by Graham | Jan 31, 2016 | Miscellaneous
I have been experimenting over the weekend with a signature pad from a German company called StepOver. One of our major clients uses these pads for all of their service engineers. I have to admit that it’s a very neat solution and the signatures produced are... by Graham | Jan 25, 2016 | New Features
Several users have requested a feature that combines a filter and a grid layout in a single entity. This has been added for version 3.3.0 and we have called it a Screenset. The Screenset Manager is available from the right-click or Office menu on every screen.... by Graham | Jan 16, 2016 | Miscellaneous
As part of the e-Quip login process a large amount of configuration data is read from the database and cached. This has never really impacted performance (unless you have a very slow server) but has been a real nuisance for users with remotely-hosted servers. For... by Graham | Jan 15, 2016 | Parkrun
THIS is absolutely nothing at all to do with equipment management, but we all need to do something apart from staring at databases all day long, don’t we? I did used to have “hobbies” (i.e. ways of wasting time that you can’t afford to waste,... by Graham | Jan 3, 2016 | E-Quip AM, Jobs, Planned Maintenance, PPM, What's New
All e-Quip users probably know that job templates lie at the heart of the automated PPM scheduling mechanism. Broadly speaking, if a PPM schedule is a definition of a set of work instructions which need to be carried out at a specified interval, then a job template is...