by Graham | Oct 15, 2019 | New Features, New Releases, What's New
This is a very comprehensive upgrade with many new features and enhancements. The last blog article relating to new releases was for version 4.0.4. This article described some late-breaking changes which had been added to version 4.0.0 (which was described here). This... by Sarah Brassington | Oct 3, 2019 | E-Quip AM
Venue for 2019 As our e-Quip family grows from strength to strength we made the decision to changed venue and timing for the e-Quip User-Group 2019. The Institute of Mechanical Engineering was host for the day (1st October 2019) and was enjoyed by 50+ of our e-Quip... by Graham | Jan 24, 2019 | New Features, New Releases, What's New
Version 4.0.4 is now available and some last-minute enhancements have been squeezed in. Job Rescheduler Sometimes it may be necessary to adjust the planned date of a number of jobs in order to reschedule them. This might happen after the service interval for a PPM... by Graham | Nov 26, 2018 | E-Quip AM, Procurement
This is the third part of an introduction to procurement with e-Quip. You really need to have read Part 1 and Part 2 to be able to get the most out of this, so I’ll assume that you have. We’ll start with really simple example which dramatically simplifies... by Graham | Nov 23, 2018 | E-Quip AM, Procurement
This article will make a lot more sense if you’ve read Part 1. If you haven’t, then now would be a good time. You will recall that the BOQ, or Bill-of-Quantities, represents your shopping list. You might not need to actually buy new stuff for everything on... by Graham | Nov 23, 2018 | E-Quip AM, Procurement
If you were to ask 10 people what “Procurement” means you would quite possibly get 10 different answers. Assuming that we know what it is, why does e-Quip need to do it? After all, all NHS organisations have financial systems in place, like Oracle,... by Graham | Nov 12, 2018 | New Features, New Releases, News, What's New
We managed to squeeze a couple more last-minute changes in but the release has now been built and sent to our beta-test sites. All being well, the general release will be available from the 19th November. In case you missed the release notes you can find them here.... by Graham | Oct 8, 2018 | E-Quip AM, New Features, New Releases, What's New
The combined new functionality in versions 3.8 and 3.9 is so considerable, especially when taking versions 3.1 through to 3.7 into account, that the latest update is being shipped as a major release: 4.0. Our latest build brings a lot of new features to the party,... by Graham | Aug 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous, New Features, What's New
First of all, what exactly is the “capital bidding process”? Essentially this is the process which starts with someone requesting the purchase of a medical device and ends with the commissioning of whatever is purchased. The term may be somewhat of a... by Graham | Aug 9, 2018 | Jobs, New Features, Planned Maintenance, PPM, What's New
Version 3.9 will see the introduction of the new System PPM utility which simplifies recording the maintenance of multi-component devices, such as camera stacks. Almost invariably each module of a system is serviced as an individual item (rather than having a single...