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 | 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 | 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 5, 2011 | E-Quip AM, Miscellaneous
Archiving Data Archiving is a much-misused term when it comes to asset-managent databases. Suppose that you were managing your inventory using old-fashioned paper files. You might have a file for each asset in which you kept all relevant information, ranging from the...