 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
"The
whole package gives us traceability and assurance of works" |
"The major impediments to proper infrastructure provision have been a lack of co-ordination between levels of Government, a failure to put in place long term plans for infrastructure which has a life of up to 100 years or more, and the generally low priority given to infrastructure budgets for capital works, rehabilitation and maintenance"
2004 Queensland Infrastructure Report Card
Peter Jorss, Queensland President of Engineers Australia
 |
3 Key Benefits for your Organisation |
|
Overview |
|
Work Management Brochures |
|
Success Story - Compliance with the Road Management Act |
--oo0oo--
3 Key Benefits for your Organisation
Maximising revenue and minimising expenditure together with the tracking of Inspections and Work performed on assets are core objectives that the Works Manager must achieve.
The Work Management System (WMS) provides your organisation with three measurable benefits:
 |
Compliance Conformity with the Road Management Act and control of legal risk using a proven and continually improving solution |
|
Traceablilty
|
|
Savings |
--oo0oo--
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 Road 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! |
--oo0oo--
|
WMS
Overview ( |
|
CMS
Overview (
469 KB) A Work Order creation and tracking system, principally designed to be operated by organisations who outsource work, ie contracting organisations or Professional Service Providers (PSPs). |
Success Story - Compliance with the Road Management Act
|
Strathbogie
Shire Council ( |
Click here to download a demonstration system.
Call us on +61 8 8304 8888 or e-mail us at hms@loftusit.com.au to discuss your work management needs.
Copyright
Loftus Computing Services Pty Ltd
hms@loftusit.com.au
