Timely and well executed management of equipment and facilities is critical to the success of “asset-based” businesses. Argos Software’s Equipment and Facilities Management Software supports these requirements broadly and in-depth. This includes the information required to manage each asset, including detailed descriptions and categorization, preventive maintenance schedules, warranty information, repair activity, fuel usage, and expense history. Both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activity can be easily and completely managed for one or multiple repair shops. Repairs can be billed to either external or internal customers. This Equipment and Facilities Management Software provides you with the tools to better analyze and manage your equipment and facilities.

Preventive Maintenance Schedules can be defined for each asset based on meter readings and/or time. The preventive maintenance software allows you to automatically schedule maintenance activity, as required. You can also attached a detailed checklist of work required, including parts, to each schedule that can then be given to the service worker as part of the maintenance Work Order.

Repair Shop Operations requires the management of schedules, resources, cost, and billing. The repair shop software gives you visibility of both scheduled and unscheduled service requests and allows you to match these requests to your resources. Work Orders can be built based on a single vehicle or facility, or in a relevant combination. Parts, labor, equipment, and outside (sublet) charges can tracked and billed. A parts inventory allows you to manage your parts, including making requisitions and issuing purchase orders, if desired. Alternatively, parts can simply be handled as non-inventory items. The repair shop software allows you to bill either your internal or external customers, with pricing set by asset or customer with detailed accounting available. This database of repair information can then be analyzed by relevant criteria, such as by asset ID, system to repair, reason for repair, location, and more.

is a combination of scheduled and unscheduled repairs and maintenance.

Historical Details on each asset are accumulated from multiple cost sources, including repair shop maintenance costs, accounts payable expenses, non-repair shop inventory usage, and fuel usage. Revenue is accumulated from equipment and facilities charged-out, either periodically or as used, and from other sources. Costs may be broken into definable categories, such as fuel, other operating costs, normal maintenance, repairs due to outside factors, fixed costs, and so on.

Reporting options are extensive and serve to support your equipment and facilities management requirements. This includes reports based on equipment usage, such as cost per mile for trucks and trailers, time, such as cost per definable period and life to date, and asset. Reports can be customized. In addition, various ad hoc reports exist where you can define the layout and content. All reports can be viewed, printed, faxed, emailed or saved to disk.

While the equipment and facilities management system fully supports the American Trucking Association’s Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards (ATA-VMRS) coding system, you can use your own codes or a combination of codes. These codes are particularly useful for tracking and analyzing vehicle maintenance details, preventive maintenance schedules and repair shop activity and productivity.