IMC's e-Maintenance
Many organizations with sophisticated and expensive equipment deployed in the field – a military arena, remote locations where weather is monitored, offshore sites for oil drilling – still maintain their equipment the old-fashioned way. When parts break, they fix or replace them. Unfortunately, this approach often results in protracted equipment downtimes that undermine the overall mission – whether that's fighting a war or reporting on life-threatening weather.
IMC's e-Maintenance monitors equipment performance and condition and predictively reports on imminent malfunctions. With it, command, maintenance, warehouse and other personnel who are geographically dispersed or organizationally siloed — and now can collaborate by phone — can instead carry out just-in-time maintenance more efficiently in a digital environment.
Using networked computers or laptops, field maintenance and warehouse and command personnel can virtually carry out predictive, agile e maintenance using —
- sensors on equipment that monitor equipment performance and condition
- broadband networks and a web-enabled portal to communicate status reports from sensors via e-mail, FTP and fax to legacy applications like inventory management, supply chain and logistics so personnel can monitor inventory, requisition parts, assign maintenance crews, etc.
- a robust capture, storage and retrieval platform to capture, archive, organize and access document images like purchase orders, invoices, satellite images of equipment configurations, onsite equipment inspection reports, business analysis reports on projected maintenance costs and required inventory as well as leases and contracts
Based on IMC's Integrated Digital Collaborative Environment (IDCE), e-Maintenance provides all involved parties with a common, synchronized, virtual view of maintenance requirements, resources and operations of the broadest scope.
With portlets and its J2EE platform, IMC's e-Maintenance readily integrates legacy applications on disparate platforms. This robust and flexible infrastructure can vastly improve the maintenance operations of military, manufacturing, construction, weather prediction, energy and other dispersed organizations with diverse, numerous and sophisticated equipment in the field that generates performance and condition data. Hosted configurations dramatically accelerate deployment and simplify management.