Visualising Your Data, Your Way, With Metrix
Spatial representation of records in asset management enhances efficiency, promotes understanding, supports compliance, and improves overall communication effectiveness. It is a cornerstone of modern asset management practice, enabling organisations to achieve higher levels of reliability, cost-effectiveness, and customer satisfaction.
Working with spatial data can provide an array of benefits to an organisation, including:
- Visual Clarity and Understanding: By depicting asset locations on a map or spatial layout, maintenance teams gain a clear visual understanding of where assets are situated across various sites or facilities. This clarity helps in efficiently planning maintenance routes, identifying nearby resources, and understanding the spatial context of each asset.
- Efficient Resource Allocation: Understanding the spatial distribution of assets allows for better resource allocation. Maintenance teams can prioritise tasks based on geographical clusters or criticality, ensuring that resources such as manpower, equipment, and materials are efficiently utilised.
- Enhanced Collaboration and Communication: Visual maps facilitate clear communication between field technicians, supervisors, and other stakeholders. Teams can easily pinpoint asset locations, discuss maintenance requirements, and coordinate efforts across different departments or contractors, leading to faster response times and improved teamwork.
- Compliance and Documentation: The regulatory landscape has many requirements regarding asset maintenance and inspection. Spatial representation helps in documenting compliance by accurately recording maintenance activities, inspections, and audits linked to specific geographic locations.
How can Metrix help?
The Metrix Asset Management system is a true spatial first system, ensuring that every record added to the asset register has valid location information. Furthermore, all tasks carried out using the Metrix Mobile application are fully backed by GPS location awareness and a spatially driven interface.
Below are just a few examples of how the spatial architecture within the Metrix Asset Management system can assist any organisation.
Visual Clarity and Understanding.
The primary navigation means within the Metrix Asset Management system is via a map view, backed by interactive filters, as well as a robust search capability. Users can quickly and easily find assets and understand their context with the aid of aerial photography underlays.
Efficient Resource Allocation.
The Metrix Mobile application leverages a programme based concept for deploying tasks to field users. Each task record (a job to complete) is backed by a spatial feature identifying where the work is to occur. For inspection tasks, this is typically the spatial feature of the asset being inspected; however, for tasks such as Customer Requests, the location can be an arbitrary point associated with a property address, incident location, or the like.
Field users, when working through programmes of tasks, are easily able to identify jobs that are geographically close together, and action them accordingly.
Enhanced Collaboration and Communication.
With a single button click, users of the Metrix Asset Management system can switch between a large range of different map styles. From condition profiles to custom data reviews, every single map theme is just a mouse click away. What’s more, is that users can utilise the built-in dynamic filter builders to refine the scope of what they are seeing in the map window. Such filters can be saved and shared to other users in the organisation.
Compliance and Documentation.
If a picture tells a thousand words, then a spatial location is the binder of the book; and the Metrix Asset Management system provides both. When completing programme tasks, users are always offered (and in some cases, required) the option of capturing one or more photos to go along with their data inputs. Similarly, each event in the mobile application is backed by the spatial location of the task.