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REAL-WORLD CASE STUDIES

  • Combatting The Heat And Embracing Portability With The TOUGHBOOK 33

    Learn how Batson-Cook increased productivity by replacing consumer devices with Panasonic Connect TOUGHBOOK 33, streamlining construction project layout processes.

  • Drone-Based Remote Asset Inspections

    Our customer aimed at providing field technicians with better and clearer insights regarding assets’ conditions and failure sources, through advanced remote collaboration features, which can even be drone-based.

  • Hartwig Turns To Fieldpoint For Mobility And Ease of Use

    When someone needs to have their mill, lathe, grinder or CNC machine tool repaired, chances are they are turning to Hartwig, who has become one of the nation’s leading machine tool and manufacturing support solution companies in the United States. Their support of the machine tool industry has helped decrease downtimes and improve the overall efficiency of the equipment they produce, which has made them the first line of support for the machines they sell.

  • Gas Utility Reduces Inspection Times By 50% Using Mobile App

    Challenged to meet regulatory requirements, a natural gas distribution utility was able to replace slow and unreliable paper data collection processes with a mobile data collection app. The new digital workflow included data capture via bar code saved significant time in getting accurate data into the utility’s digital network as-builting process.

FIELD TECHNOLOGIES MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Specialization In FSM Software Brings New Benefits

If your field service management (FSM) platform does not do enough for your organization, it is time to reconsider. Historically, FSM solutions seemed quite similar. Most of the solutions providers in this sector focused on the same core services of scheduling and billing, gradually progressing toward supporting the field service visit as these companies built more advanced capabilities.

Service Growth Portfolio Management

Revenue and market growth are accelerated by a new approach to leading a service business. The Service Growth Portfolio concentrates on value and capability creation in three distinct investment areas: 1) Service Product Offering, 2) Workforce Skills and Behaviors, 3) Enabling Technology.

Net Promoter Score: The Sum Effect Of Customer Interactions

Customers interact with a company across multiple touch points such as sales, customer service, and technical support. Interactions are not limited to human contact; customers interact with a company’s systems, channels, and products that mold their view as well. These experiences customers have over the myriad interactions influence their perception of an organization.

5 Failures of Customer Journey Maps – And How to Avoid Them

Your field force are the key people who interact with customers, day in and day out. One of the foundations often used to ensure that your customers have a consistent experience is to create a customer journey map. When properly trained on and executed, it will guide your team to take the right actions at the right time and to ensure they understand when and how to best engage customers around different circumstances.

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MOBILE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

  • To get the job done, workers need rugged, reliable, remote access to real-time data. While personal smartphones, tablets and laptops may be attractive and easy to use, they do not have the durability or functionality necessary for everyday business use.

  • Glacier Computer offers Canvas to easily create data collection applications for any of Glacier’s rugged mobile computing devices and also for your Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone or Netbook. With Canvas you can quickly and affordably create mobile forms or select from any of the ready to go apps in our store. Glacier has pre-built mobile forms for almost every vertical application and you can easily add or delete fields to any of our existing apps.
  • Boost efficiency and customer service by giving your employees enterprise-class handheld computers that survive life in the field or shop floor, communicate and access information in real time. The TC75 is the professional-grade Android device built from the ground up for the enterprise.

  • The new DLI 8300 Rugged Tablet PC is a breakthrough mobile device perfectly suited to a wide variety of environments and applications. Powerful, flexible, and housed in a “go anywhere, do anything” ruggedized form factor, the DLI 8300 is capable of running your most demanding computing tasks.
  • The ARMOR X10gx Tablet represents a giant leap in communications capabilities in a fully rugged package. It offers connectivity capabilities such as Gobi™ Wireless Broadband, RF Switching, Integrated GPS, 802.11n Connectivity, Bluetooth® Wireless and is MIL-STD-810G and IP67 certified.

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