GDS The Asset Guardian Features

Assets

The Asset Guardian is an Enterprise Asset Management System (EAMS). Virtually
anything requiring care can be defined as an asset. For example: production line
machinery, support equipment and facility assets can all be effectively managed
through The Asset Guardian. The Asset Guardian not only supports multiple
maintenance controls for each piece of equipment, but also multilevel sub-assemblies
for each piece of equipment. This allows you the flexibility to establish and manage
separate maintenance events at each subassembly level if desired. With The Asset
Guardian, even your personnel can be set up as assets in order to help manage and
meet their educational needs or other requirements.

Steps

Work Steps can be defined in The Asset Guardian at a single or multi-level and
may be associated with one or more maintenance events. If desired, specific
personnel and/or required qualifications can be associated with an event, a step or sub-
step to be used in determining “who” should perform the work.

To assist the assignee, when executing a maintenance event, a step or sub-step, a
gateway is available for accessing supporting materials via the web as well as stored
images, CAD/CAM drawings, documents and videos. Depending upon your level of
computer and network enablement, your technicians could view schematics or other
related support material while actually performing the work.

Personnel

A critical element in the successful fulfillment of a maintenance or repair event is often
who is assigned to the work. It is for that reason The Asset Guardian provides the ability
to define your personnel along with their individual certifications and skills. This
capability allows you the option to assign, in advance, the preferred technician for any
given maintenance event when it occurs. If you wish, you can even record the actual
time it took the technician to complete the maintenance event as well as each step or
sub-step included in the event.

With the ability to record feedback from your personnel on data points such as “how
much time” an event step actually requires, a valuable repository of performance
history is built. Providing the ability to establish “standard” and “estimated” times at the
step and/or sub-step levels, The Asset Guardian has the ability to track variances of
actual times and/or estimated times to standard times at any of those levels.

Work Detail Packet

Once events are scheduled and ready for execution, The Asset Guardian provides the
ability to create a Work Detail Packet.   The purpose of the packet is to provide the
personnel assigned to an event a “package” of information concerning the work to be
performed. A work order is produced detailing the prescribed work steps, related MRO
items, suggested tools and consumables as well as the required qualifications of the
technician to effectively complete the maintenance event.

For those users taking advantage of PDA’s, Tablet PC’s or other similar technologies,
The Asset Guardian offers an electronic delivery of the Work Detail Packet. The option of
printing the appropriate components of a packet is, of course, available for those users
who do not have electronic delivery capability embedded in their workforce.

Information Feedback

All work steps and events established in The Asset Guardian are available for
information feedback. However, with such flexibility comes the opportunity to
overwhelm the operating personnel with an unmanageable volume of data collection
points. The Asset Guardian provides a near effortless methodology to avoid this
dilemma.

Part of this methodology is embedded in the structure of The Asset Guardian. In most
areas where data collection is a logical extension of a process, The Asset Guardian
allows you to collect data points at any level. For example, if you have multiple work
steps for an event with sub-steps under each step, you are free to choose the level in
the hierarchy at which data points are to be collected. You may choose to collect data
at the highest level, at the lowest level or in any combination that is manageable in your
operating environment. As your environment changes, The Asset Guardian allows you
to easily change your data collection methodology.