Faster Login for Hosted Servers

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...

Recording Engineer’s Experience

If you can remember the old SEMS system (long gone, but not yet forgotten), then you might recall that it provided a way of recording an engineer’s experience on a model-by-model basis. You could create coded levels of experience, such as...

What Exactly does MTBF Mean?

Probably not what you think it does! One of the most common requests that we get for calculated columns is for Mean Time Between Failure, or MTBF. This statistic seems to be embedded in the psyche of all biomedical engineers. How many of those, I wonder, actually know...