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Ivara Remote: Un-tethering the asset care workforce

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Un-tether the asset care workforce with a mobile solution for accomplishing daily activities. When working remotely, we still need access to critical information. With a more technically savvy work force and larger, complex, and connected facilities and work sites, Ivara Remote has you covered.

Ivara Remote is used independently of Ivara in a disconnected environment. It is a simplified version of the Ivara desktop application that provides basic functions relevant for use in a remote location. It allows users to go to remote locations for extended periods of time (for example, for a few hours or even weeks at a time), while having direct access to the information required for the tasks they need to perform.

Ivara Remote supports both a Zero to Landfill approach and Lean Maintenance by:

  • Eliminating the need to print out work orders and reducing paper consumption and disposal
  • Streamlining maintenance technician reporting by eliminating the traditional write information on paper and later inputting into the CMMS system
  • Providing the maintenance technicians and operators the ability to enter new work requests in the field as they are conducting inspections, even remote locations
  • Provides instant access to an asset’s history and information eliminating guesswork and work delay
  • Ensuring that all maintenance technicians are checking assets in the same way
  • Instant notification of out of specification conditions to expedite evaluation and execution of remedial actions and/or planning

Ivara Remote includes the ability to carry out the following tasks:

  • Create checksheets from standard tasks
  • Enter condition indicator readings
  • View the maintenance program (standard tasks) for an asset
  • View indicator information
  • Mark indicator alarms as fixed during inspection
  • Create work requests, and send them for approval
  • View work order tasks, including indicators to read and procedures to follow
  • Report activity, enter readings and comments against tasks, and close them
  • View the asset hierarchy and basic information for each asset

Ivara Remote runs on a mobile computer such as a Tablet PC or a laptop and has the same look and feel as Ivara EXP. To support running in a disconnected environment, each remote com­puter has its own separate database. Remote databases are periodi­cally synchronized with the Ivara master database depending on the need of the environment. And like the Ivara EXP Enterprise software, Ivara Remote is fully definable. The application can easily be extended using tailoring.

Ivara EXP + Apollo RCA = systematic approach for continuous improvement

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Ivara has formed a partnership with Apollo Associated Services, the industry leader in root cause analysis methodology, training and consulting. With the partnership, Ivara’s asset performance management software, EXP Enterprise, will integrate Apollo’s RealityCharting® software.

EXP customers already benefit from a cohesive, real-time view of asset health and performance, driven by a comprehensive reliability program that optimizes asset performance. The addition of Apollo’s RealityCharting® software will allow EXP Enterprise customers to benefit from an integrated root cause analysis methodology and reporting system. Apollo’s root cause analysis methodology is proven to prevent problem recurrence and ensure continuous improvement. Unlike other root cause analysis methods which are based on a predefined hierarchy of causes, RealityCharting® encourages input from all stakeholders – top to bottom – resulting in effective solutions that everyone can agree on every time.