Does your business or municipality know where the assets are?
- Technology is evolving at a very quicker pace.
- The cost for the ever increasing technology is never cheap.
- Tracking those resources as well as human resources to manage and maintain the equipment is critical
- Being able to find resources and documentation after the contractor is gone for vital services is critical
- Does your organization have the means to effectively transfer such knowledge with personal change
- If critical upgrades for safety or functionality are recommended, do you know what version of equipment is current in use or
- what equipment will need to be updated? If not will an expensive survey then be required to determine this?
- Will you know if a manufacturer converts a critical product to an end of life status?
These are the challenges facing every organization today. Equipment is quoted and purchased by one department. Another department manages the contractor. Still another might be responsible for maintenance. If key knowledge is lost along the way, then what happens to the infrastructure?
The solution is a simple user friendly data base that can record critical information. It should be customized for the specific application and intuitive for the operator. It should be available anywhere to any authorized user. Information related to the physical location, history of the site, exact information related to equipment with technical information along with a knowledge base of problems in the past. It should be easy to update and not expense to use. It should be the default insurance policy for every key system!