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For greater visibility of all operations and resources employed in the maintenance and repair of the fleet of buses

Management of stores and operations of maintenance for the EMT Madrid

Source: Intermec29/09/2009

September 29, 2009

The EMT Madrid (Municipal transport company) has installed Intermec devices in two projects directed respectively to the optimization in the management of warehouses and to the identification in the operations of maintenance and repair of vehicles.

Both projects are part of a plan of re-engineering of processes and application development, led by Accenture and SAP technology and architecture oriented services (SOA), which aims to improve the service provided to the customer and the optimization of their business processes and business-based.

Intermec has provided this project printers barcode, readers and portable, both mobile and fixed terminals, to support the new implemented applications.

Warehouse management

The first project has been in the optimization of operations in their stores dedicated to pieces of spare parts for maintenance and repair of bus services. In total, the project has included its five centres of operations that the company owns in Madrid. Intermec has provided this project printers barcode, readers and portable, both mobile and fixed terminals, to support the new implemented applications.

The main benefit that provides the new warehouse management solution for the EMT in Madrid has been to move from a highly dependent on the role environment to an automated system, implementing technologies of identification with codes of portable terminals in the different tasks and bars: entry of equipment, locations, internal relocations, control inventories and shipments. TMS of Madrid has thus a visibility in real time from their warehouse and operations of the stock available at any given time.

The main benefit that provides the new warehouse management solution for the EMT in Madrid has been moving from a heavily dependent on the role environment to an automated system.

"We wanted a drivers robust and simple to use that they expedite the warehouse operations and cut to a minimum the manual entry of data by the operators," says Mario González, head of the Division of information of the TMS corporate systems. "In addition, we opted for Intermec, as that we preferred to have a single manufacturer to provide us all the necessary devices to facilitate the work of installation and integration".

Control of peacekeeping operations

The second project has been to integrate and optimize the operations of maintenance of the fleet of vehicles, from the creation and management of orders, the use of replacement materials and notification of employees times during the execution of these orders.

EMT Madrid has chosen the fixed terminal for Intermec CV60, equipped with card reader and barcode. Operators use this terminal to report its repair operations, the company to provide more control on the timing and the resources used in each work order.

EMT Madrid has chosen the fixed terminal for Intermec CV60, equipped with card reader and barcode.

"For this project, we wanted a robust terminal of touch screen which is very easy to use by our operators to introduce data," says Mario González.

The CV60 also features Wi-Fi connection, which is why reports in real time to the central system, the operations that are carried out in the workshops.