TrakkaTM V1.3 "The Condition Alerts Release"

We have all been waiting some time for this one,
and finally it's here... and we're excited!! Trakka^TM
V1.3 was successfully released on July 21. The release was originally scheduled five days earlier for July 16, but the decision was taken to postpone the release slightly so we could make extra sure it would operate reliably for our customers. This is the most significant release of Trakka^TM so far, and now it can be fully used in place of FleetOil.

Major Additional Features include:

• User definable condition alerts - automatically alert equipment problems through a powerful and intuitive alert management system. Alerts can be set for single components or groups of components and tailored fully to your site conditions.
• Multiple Alert Profiles - slice and dice your alerts that way it makes sense for your site. Each component can have multiple alert profiles so you can set one alert profile for wear metals and another one for lubricant properties.
• Rates of Change - with longer and longer oil drains that are becoming more common, it can be difficult to know if it is adversely affecting your equipment or not. Trakka^TM takes oil age, oil usage, and lubricant capacity information and does the hard work for you. You can also compare it with all your like equipment.
• Trend by Component Hours - now you can trend only the test results since your last component change and view the component age (hours, miles, kilometers) on the axis. Add existing trend grouping functionality to the mix and now you have a powerful new capability - compare lifetime trends for all your like components!

Click here to view a free online Trakka demo

Trakka^TM V1.3 in High Demand

Trakka^TM Version 1.3, a software solution for enterprise wide conditioned based asset management, has been released and the response from many interested customers has been tremendous. The webinar held on Friday July 22nd was a complete success.

Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) has adopted
MaintenanceGuy for the reporting of oil analysis
results and sharing the information with its engineering supplier, Bombardier.

GNER, publicly recognised as Britain’s best long distance inter-city rail company, has recently won a new 10-year franchise to run trains between London, the East Midlands, Yorkshire, the north east of England and Scotland. GNER’s fleet of high speed diesel and electric trains are intensively utilised. This requires effective oil analysis through its supplier, Scientifics, and the delivery of high quality effective  reporting to both train operators and equipment maintainers.

Magnus Conn, GNER’s Chief Engineer, recognised the benefits of MaintenanceGuy in providing results quickly and effectively, allowing data management and decision making for all involved. After authorising an internal trial the benefits of the system was soon recognised resulting in full fleet adoption with supplier access. Magnus commented “ the need to act on oil test results by providing the information quickly and effectively, thereby helping to minimise expensive in service failures and  increase train availability, is successfully met with MaintenanceGuy.”

For more information on the services GNER and Scientifics offer, please visit the following web sites:

GNER -  http://www.gner.co.uk/GNER

Scientifics - http://www.scientifics.com/

If you would like additional information about MaintenanceGuy, click here.

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