by Graham | Sep 10, 2012 | E-Quip AM
Clinical Sciences Building – Walsgrave – Tuesday 11th September 2012 The user-group is upon us once again. The agenda is below. I’ve not set aside specific times for any of the following. They’re really just bullet points of the things... by Graham | Aug 13, 2012 | E-Quip AM
Location-Specific Targets The new e-Quip KPI’s will give you values for measurements like equipment fault response times, repair turnaround times etc., but how do you know whether what you have achieved is satisfactory? In other words, what are the targets that... by Graham | Aug 6, 2012 | E-Quip AM
Planned Maintenance Performance Indicators A performance indicator is a numeric value which measures some aspect of organisational performance. In the context of e-Quip they would be quantitative values which allow some aspect of medical device management to be... by Graham | Jul 7, 2012 | New Features, New Releases
Development on version 2.3.0 has now completed and its beta release will start next week. Although this is a relatively minor release it includes some useful new features. As usual, these are all features that have been requested by the user community. Some of the... by Graham | Jun 13, 2012 | Data
What is Hierarchical Data? A hierarchy arises when there is a parent-child relationship between items. Devices, for example are hierarchical if one device is a module of another and both are stored in e-Quip. A Camera Stack might consist of several other devices... by Graham | Apr 22, 2012 | A Developer's Day
I Need to Make Some Space in my Head – What can I Throw Out? This is the second article in an informal series of shock exposés in which I lift the lid on the white-knuckle ride which constitutes the daily rough and tumble of the E-Quip gerontocracy. Over the... by Graham | Apr 21, 2012 | Spare Parts
What is a Spare Part Location A spare part bin is a repository for spare parts. You might think that all asset-management databases support the concept of spare part bins, but surprisingly they don’t, and those that do all do it in different ways. Many of you... by Graham | Apr 21, 2012 | Spare Parts
Spare Part Location Bulk Update From time to time you may want to re-organise your spare part store, and this will probably involve renaming your spare part bins. How can you do this? For a single spare part you can do this by editing the spare part, going to the... by Graham | Apr 21, 2012 | New Features, New Releases
Version 2.1.0 was released on 17th April, 2012. Coming hot on the heels of 2.0.0 the changes are relatively minor, but have all been requested by our users. The changes include: All Screens: Document Quick Link is now available on all summary screens. Jobs:... by Graham | Apr 21, 2012 | Electrical Safety Tests, Test Equipment
Creating Individual Test Files from the Rigel 288 When you import a CSV file containing multiple test results from the Rigel 288, E-Quip creates an individual file for each test within the CSV file and attaches it to the asset being tested. Previously these individual...