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The Use of Mobile Devices in Maintenance

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

These days, it’s a whole new world for maintenance and engineering technicians. The use of mobile computing devices — allowing workers to take speedy, automatic readings, easily access asset histories and do much more — is on the rise, replacing the traditional pen and clipboard.

Ivara customer, Agrium, knows all about it – rolling out Ivara EXP Enterprise release 6.0.1 using remote tablets for data collection. They have deployed at 2 facilities – Agrium Carseland Nitrogen Operations (near Calgary, AB) and most recently Agrium Vanscoy Surface Operations (near Saskatoon, SK).

Florian Lenders, VP of Reliability Services at Ivara contributes to recent article in PEM Magazine on the state of mobile device usage in Maintenance.

Read the article online at pem-mag.com: http://www.pem-mag.com/Features/data-on-the-go-how-mobile-computing-is-evolving-maintenance-processes.html