Are your maintenance technicians losing one hour of tool time daily?

Are your maintenance technicians losing one hour of tool time daily?

Published: 21/October/2024

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Key Takeaways

⇨ Utilizing a paper-based manual work order process can cost technicians approximately one hour of available tool time daily, significantly impacting overall productivity.

⇨ Common challenges of manual processes include wasted effort on printing and distributing job packs, incomplete information, readability issues with handwritten notes, and low team morale due to administrative burdens.

⇨ Obzervr's Digital Work Management Solution streamlines fieldwork operations, enhances efficiency with digital execution, and improves data quality, allowing supervisors to save time and gain real-time insights into asset maintenance.

Did you know that using a paper-based manual work order process for asset maintenance is likely to reduce each technician’s available tool time by about one hour per day?

Add that up across your entire team for every shift in a year – the cost on productivity is staggering!

Common challenges include:

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1. Wasted effort in printing, collating, and handing out job packs.

2. Missing information so workers struggle to perform the necessary tasks.

3. No validation when completing forms so information may be incomplete.

4. Handwritten information can be hard to read, leading to unnecessary mistakes.

5. Lower morale, as team members are performing administrative tasks rather than doing higher value work they enjoy.

Not to mention the wasted time maintenance supervisors spend reviewing pages (and pages!) of work orders, rekeying information and scanning work orders into the CMMS.

Obzervr’s Digital Work Management Solution is a fieldwork automation and mobility solution that addresses all of these points and more. With seamless integration with SAP S/4HANA and ECC6, your CMMS and other critical business systems, Obzervr closes the loop between field activities and head office requirements. A web-based platform and mobile app, Obzervr empowers frontline teams with the information they need to work safer and more efficiently – even in offline and dark mode. With paper-based processes transformed into digital work execution – frontline teams can work digitally and capturing quality data in the field – supervisors can manage work orders by exception and save up to 4 hours of paperwork a day, – asset owners can gain near-real time insights on asset health and maintenance performance.

Let’s make every minute of your maintenance team’s work count – contact Obzervr: info@obzervr.com or call 1300 629 378.

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