by Graham | Jun 7, 2013 | New Releases
This version contains some great ideas from our users. It should be released to beta in about two weeks, and should be on general release a week or so after that. Development of this version has not yet finished so a few more features not described here might make it... by Graham | Jun 3, 2013 | Miscellaneous, New Features
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... by Graham | May 30, 2013 | New Features
While many e-Quip installations allow engineers to commission new devices, for some creating new inventory records is a supervisor-level task. A new screen, Device Commissioning Request, has been added to support this. Essentially the purpose of this screen is to... by Graham | Mar 16, 2013 | E-Quip AM, Jobs, Planned Maintenance, PPM
Summary I have produced a fairly in-depth technical article which explains in some detail how and when the equipment last & next PPM dates are calculated and displayed. Understanding these details will give you a thorough knowledge of how PPM scheduling functions... by Graham | Mar 4, 2013 | Mobile, New Features
Starting with version 2.8.0, which will be released within the next couple of weeks, e-Quip will include a Pocket PC interface. This will run on any PDA running Windows Mobile 6 or 6.5 Classic. You might ask why we chose this particular device. We had taken the... by Graham | Feb 6, 2013 | What's New
1. The System Dashboard a. A dashboard has been added to the application start screen. Where appropriate the dashboard rows can be double-clicked to show the data to which the dashboard refers. It is possible to configure: 1) Whether a particular item should be... by Graham | Jan 12, 2013 | New Features, Reports, What's New
From version 2.7.0 a dashboard has been added to the system. This takes the place of the domain screen (which a lot of people referred to as the administrator screen). The operation of the dashboard is straightforward. Most rows respond to double-click which... by Graham | Jan 5, 2013 | Miscellaneous
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... by Graham | Dec 12, 2012 | E-Quip AM, PPM
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... by Graham | Dec 11, 2012 | What's New
1. PDF Designer Enhancements a. Support for Microsoft Excel added – It is now possible to use the PDF Designer to generate Microsoft Excel exports. b. It is now possible to rename report column captions. c. Configurable report footers have been added. 2. Risk...