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...

Coming Soon – Version 2.3.0

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...

Working with Hierarchical 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...

A Developer’s Day – Wrestling with Filters

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...