by Graham | May 8, 2016 | Assets, Jobs, Maintenance Events, PPM
There are many situations where e-Quip will display a warning or an alert. It is very difficult to document all of them because there are so many and most are self-explanatory. If you see a message that says “The work end date is before the call date” then... by Graham | Mar 2, 2016 | E-Quip AM, New Features, New Releases
Version 3.3.0 will be released at the end of March 2016. Although some additional features might find their way in between now and the final release, here is a summary of the new features: 1. Embedded Documents – New Feature a. It is now possible to store... by Graham | Feb 19, 2016 | Library
A new feature has been added from version 3.30 which allows consumables to be issued with loans. For example, a wheelchair may be loaned to a patient and while the wheelchair itself is listed in the e-Quip inventory, things like cushions, stump supports etc may not... by Graham | Feb 11, 2016 | Library
Version 3.3.0 will include a simple application which will allow porters and other hospital staff to easily issue loans when the library is unattended. It is designed to work with a bar code scanner and ideally a touch screen, although it works just as well with a... by Graham | Jan 31, 2016 | Miscellaneous
I have been experimenting over the weekend with a signature pad from a German company called StepOver. One of our major clients uses these pads for all of their service engineers. I have to admit that it’s a very neat solution and the signatures produced are... by Graham | Jan 25, 2016 | New Features
Several users have requested a feature that combines a filter and a grid layout in a single entity. This has been added for version 3.3.0 and we have called it a Screenset. The Screenset Manager is available from the right-click or Office menu on every screen.... by Graham | Jan 16, 2016 | Miscellaneous
As part of the e-Quip login process a large amount of configuration data is read from the database and cached. This has never really impacted performance (unless you have a very slow server) but has been a real nuisance for users with remotely-hosted servers. For... by Graham | Jan 15, 2016 | Parkrun
THIS is absolutely nothing at all to do with equipment management, but we all need to do something apart from staring at databases all day long, don’t we? I did used to have “hobbies” (i.e. ways of wasting time that you can’t afford to waste,... by Graham | Jan 3, 2016 | E-Quip AM, Jobs, Planned Maintenance, PPM, What's New
All e-Quip users probably know that job templates lie at the heart of the automated PPM scheduling mechanism. Broadly speaking, if a PPM schedule is a definition of a set of work instructions which need to be carried out at a specified interval, then a job template is... by Graham | Dec 4, 2015 | What's New
Work on version 3.3.0 is well underway and having just posted an article about the library changes I thought I would give you an update about what has gone into the next version so far: Loan screen redesign Pocket PC loan auditor Support for Office 2007 xlsx &...