ProField, from Apex CoVantage, is the first solution designed specifically for inventory and asset management programs that depend on widely-dispersed teams to perform high-quality work. ProField automates the most important workflows that connect dispersed team members to their supervisors, to program headquarters and to third parties.

Greatly simplifying performance comparisons between teams and workload balancing across teams, ProField is an invaluable resource for competitive bid analysis and effective schedule management.

Revolutionary in its innovative use of digital imagery and GPS, users log-in through their own personalized, role-based web portal, where they have secure access to the tools and workflows relevant to their responsibilities.

Benefits:
  •  Deploy teams more effectively
  •  Resolve in-field problems faster
  •  Monitor team performance in real-time
  •  Ensure exceptional accuracy via photos and GPS
  •  Raise batch-level quality via predictive sampling

In today’s competitive environment, it’s all about time-to-market. By raising both productivity and quality, ProField shrinks time-to-market by orders of magnitude:

Quantum Productivity – ProField yields a 50% increase in field engineering productivity – the true source of competitive advantage.

Quantum Quality – ProField raises the accuracy of field engineering data by as much as 20 times to a 99% level.-

Quantum On-Time, On-Budget Delivery – Higher productivity and better quality add up to reliable scheduling. ProField ensures that projects are always completed on-time and often ahead of schedule.

1. OnSite – a revolutionary software client that runs on notebook PCs and handheld WindowsMobile devices. Intelligently guides team members through a variety of customizable on-site processes, from field asset inspection to equipment installation or removal. Provides four different levels of real-time quality assurance. Digital images and secure-GPS readings are a safeguard against fraud and provide a baseline view for future asset management programs.

2. LiveQuality – the workspace for QA specialists. Collaborates with OnSite to enable real-time, remote quality assurance. Includes advanced statistical sampling engine that selects specific sites for follow-up visits by field auditors. Designed to direct auditors to those sites most likely to have undiscovered quality problems, rather than to a random sample of completed sites.

3. OpsCenter – addresses the problems associated with assigning work and tracking performance across a large, in-sourced and outsourced, multi-tier workforce. Ensures that new team members are assigned work as soon as they are badged and that work is appropriate for skill set, expected productivity and geographic location. Enables in-house or third party specialists to assist remote team members in advance with site access or appointment setting issues.

4. TrainingPlus – eliminates the confusion, backlog and delays that occur when new teams of inexperienced field technicians join the workforce. Ensures that all team members are quickly and properly trained, certified, background-checked, photographed and badged. Essential tool for minimizing the cost of employee turnover.

5. Executive – provides real-time information to senior executives who want to track the performance of an inventory or asset management program. Provides immediate, top-line performance information for any time span, as well as powerful drill-down capabilities. Executives can easily identify regions, teams and vendors that are over or under-performing.

1. Turnkey Solution
With the turnkey package, you set the direction and requirements, and entrust Apex CoVantage with full-life-cycle responsibility for your Field Asset Management project, including:

  •  Requirements Analysis
  •  ProField Customization
  •  Pilot Implementation
  •  Full Scale Rollout
        – Project Management
        – Quality Inspection
        – Training and Certification
        – Field Force Deployment

2. Ala Carte Solution
This is a flexible model designed for customers who want to utilize in-house expertise by selectively integrating components of the Turnkey Solution. For instance, you may engage Apex for the Project Management and Quality inspection, reserving for your own staff Training, Certification and Field Force Deployment.

3. Software Solution
Alternatively, customers can choose to license a customized version of ProField and utilize internal resources for executing the project.