Work Management Systems

The Work Management System is a Work Order creation and tracking system designed for asset owners / custodians / contractors to manage Work Orders for their infrastructure.

More specifically, the system is an Activity Based Costing (ABC) tool that documents all maintenance and capital activities in a technical and dollar format through the use of Work Orders. Orders can be manually created or scheduled at specific intervals, eg regular routine maintenance, regular inspections, one off tasks, etc. All work performed is costed to a contract or budget and used to measure performance.


The Work Management System combines the strengths of two other Loftus HMS modules. The first of these is the Contract Management System, developed to suit workflow processes in New Zealand where work is contracted to a 3rd party and tracking of Resource expenditure is not necessary. The second module is the older Maintenance Management System, which does track the expenditure of individual labour, equipment and material Resources.


WMS is the ideal combination of both these systems. It provides the flexibility of either an Activity only based approach or full Resource costing to labour, equipment and materials enabling detailed profit and loss figures to be determined.


The Work Management System is the ideal tool to control budgets and capture "as constructed" data for updating Asset Management Systems and is available in asset specific disciplines for: Roads, Sewer, Water, Drainage, Parks, Buildings and Bridges.


WMS was enhanced to enable Victorian local authorities to successfully meet the requirements of the Victorian Road Management Bill shortly after it was proposed in mid-2003. Now passed in parliament, the R

oad Management Act holds authorities accountable for their road infrastructure requiring them to maintain transparent documentation which details all maintenance and inspection actions performed by them.
The Work Management System is also supplied with a Defect Logging System (DLS) that captures inspection information on laptops, notebooks and Tablet PCs. DLS defects are converted directly to WMS Work Orders and scheduled for completion.


The Work Management System uses a powerful SQL Server client-server engine and has many flexible features to help you do your job better and minimise your organisation's exposure and risk.
A brief summary of the many features of the system is presented below. For a full list and access to a 30-day evaluation system please download the WMS product brochure.


Why look elsewhere when WMS:

 

  • Creates unplanned or planned Work Orders for issue to external contractors, internal business units, gangs and/or individual resources
  • Utilises user-definable Activities and Labour, Equipment and Material Resources to calculate expenditure and revenue thereby providing instant Profit and Loss information
  • Enables work to be effortlessly scheduled and programmed via in-built Scheduler and Work Forecasting Tool
  • Uses e-mail to issue electronic Work Orders using a fully customisable MS Word document template
  • Includes an embedded GIS+Viewer to relate geographic locations using ESRI shape files (which can be produced by MapInfo) or an intranet/Internet map server
  • Converts and dynamically links to Moloney road asset management data
  • Captures additional work-related information (such as condition reports, service advice, etc) using templates created in the powerful User Definable Form designer
  • Automatically schedules and creates Work Orders from defect/inspection records captured in the field operable (via laptop, XP Tablet PC, etc) Defect Logging System (DLS)
  • Contains an embedded Information Library providing instant access to policies and guidelines
  • Is preloaded with typical Victorian Activities - works straight out of the box!

 

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