An Overview of Planned Maintenance Strategies

  There is a great deal of documentation (both in the product Help and on this blog) which describes how planned maintenance can be managed using e-Quip. I thought  that it might be useful to provide a brief overview of these techniques to act as a roadmap to...

Evidence-Based KPI’s – Part 2

Equipment Fault Efficiency Performance Indicators The KPI SIG’s (Special Interest Groups) identified that two main performance indicators were required to describe how effectively equipment faults are dealt with. These are response time and turnaround time. Both...

The 2012 User-Group Meeting

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...

KPI’s – Location Targets

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...

Evidence-Based KPI’s – Part 1

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...