Free Software!

For more years than I care to remember, and certainly over thousands of man-hours, I have enjoyed hacking out equipment maintenance systems. Indeed there have been dark days when this was my only recreation (but we won't dwell on that now)! I have a program that has all the usual features (plus some unusual ones), but is DOS-based and therefore appears a bit dated to modern eyes. It is stand-alone, single user, but has an ability to access multiple data-sets if required. It was coded in FoxPro 2.6, which was (still is) a very powerful database management language in its day. You can get a flavour of my stuff from the screen shots at this website. Anyway, the bottom line is that, as part of my clearing-out process, and to make way for new projects, I am willing to pass on copies of this program to anybody who may find it useful. I can include dummy (example) data. If you want, I can also offer source code (so if you can make your own changes if you have FoxPro yourself). I can send this stuff out as an email attachment. If anyone is interested, get in touch.

I call my program TaskMaster. It carries out all the routines traditionally expected of medical equipment maintenance programs, including job reporting, fault and action coding, parts
stock control etc. and the inter-action between these functions. In addition, the following features may be noted:-

- 99 equipment types in each class
- 999 equipment control numbers for each equipment type
- Access to data-sets in different directories
- Automatic adjustment of PM intervals due to risk factors
- Automatic opening of PM Jobs
- Automatic logging of equipment history events
- Automatic logging of stock parts history events
- Balancing PM workload over a given period
- Beyond-Economic-Repair alert feature
- Easy insertion of repeat stock items into job records
- Equipment control number system
- Equipment life forecasting based on accumulated
maintenance cost and cost of replacement
- Estimated dates for next 11 PM visits
- Job records with up to 8 parts used
- Levels of user access for security
- Organized equipment coding system
- Organized stock numbering system
- Over 80 pre-configured reports
- PM procedure builder facility with 15 task lines
- PM scheduling by eqpt, month due, priority or user
- PM task line-items of up to 60 characters
- Records of parts stock transactions
- Records of previous 20 PM visits
- Risk-oriented PM scheduling scheme
- Up to 100 risk elements in up to 10 risk groupings

More features may be easily added.

The TaskMaster for DOS Jobs Records form.