The PPM Calendar

Quite a few users have requested a PPM Calendar which shows a list of equipment and a table of weeks (or months) showing when each device will be (or was) serviced, along with colour coding to indicate whether each service was done early or late. e-Quip has always...

Loan Delivery and Collection Lists

Many of you will know Simon who runs the Addenbrooke’s Medical Equipment Library. He manages an extremely busy department, probably one of the busiest in the country. Simon is a big fan of RFID asset tracking, and although the integration with e-Quip and the...

Competences for Device Users and Engineers

Competence Groups Based on suggestions from our users, as from version 2.12.0 we have added a new mechanism for recording competences for both device users and engineers. We have called them Competence Groups. The main problem with the way that competences worked...

Coming Soon – Version 2.11.0

There are quite a few new features arriving with version 2.11.0. here is a summary, but if you download this PDF document you will see a full description of the new features under the first topic, “What’s New in Version 2.11.0”. The new Commissioning...

The On-Line Dashboard

You might be interested to know that there is now a configurable e-Quip on-line dashboard. Have a look at http://dashboard.e-quip.uk.net The web page refreshes automatically as frequently as you choose (the default is  every minute) and uses the standard dashboard...

e-Quip Web Access & Micro-Sites

When we designed e-Quip we felt (and still do) that engineers and others using the software for several hours a day needed the advanced functionality of a desktop application. Web access has always been important, but for different types of user. For several years we...

Order Merging

It is quite common for several orders or requisitions to be raised for a single supplier in a given period. Often, before the orders are sent to the supplier they are combined into a single order. This can reduce postage & packaging charges and also makes orders...

Job Checklists

Job checklists have been added to version 2.10.0, which should go into beta release this week. The sample below shows the checklist for a Philips MRX defibrillator. (NOTE: this sample is given to illustrate how checklists work. Please don’t use the values shown...