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Minimize Turf Equipment Downtime
Date: September 29, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT
Learn how easy to use web-based systems can save you time, money and make your job easier. These new intuitive tools can be used by anyone and can give you back valuable time. Budget cuts don't come with lowered expectations. Equipment must perform better and last longer. An automated system can alert you when maintenance is due, tell you which parts are needed and even give you your distributor's pricing.
The right maintenance at the right time can avoid costly downtime, ensure equipment operates at its best and lasts longer. And when it is time to consider replacing your equipment, you will have all of your maintenance costs for any or all equipment at the push of a button.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
- Simplify your parts ordering process
- Easily track your equipment assets
- Save time when accessing equipment resources, such as manuals, service bulletins, etc. and ensure you always have the latest information
- Use new Wireless Hour Meters to make equipment usage tracking and maintenance a breeze
- Automatically trigger Maintenance Alerts to ensure Preventive Maintenance gets done in a timely manner
- Easily customize the system to fit your maintenance requirements
- Track all maintenance costs and history through a simple Work Order process
- Instantly report on equipment assets, parts inventory, maintenance costs and history and many more
Join our speakers as they discuss "their use of the system for visibility and comparison of acquisition costs vs. maintenance costs, as well as their ability to track inventory costs." Learn their formula for solving the "leasing vs. owning" problem when purchasing your equipment and discover how the system is used to better manage across multiple sites.
Presenters: Carlos Calderon, Senior Marketing Manager, The Toro Company
Stanley Kapulka, Equipment Program Director, MCRA
Kevin Mercer, Superintendent of Grounds, St. Mary's College, Maryland
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On-Demand Webinars
Webinar Series: How State Agencies are Transforming Processes with Decision Management
Part 1: Learn How WorkSafe Victoria Improved Workers' Compensation Claims Processing
Government processes are governed by policies which translate into rules. Process improvement is looked at closely by government agencies, legislators and citizens, particularly in order to manage resources more effectively. While separating business logic from application code, government agencies gain agility and streamline processes.
WorkSafe Victoria, an Australian social service agency dedicated to employee worker safety and compensation, implemented decision management technology to enable smarter decision making. The solution contributed to delivery outstanding quality care and insurance protection while reducing costs.
This success involved:
- Modernization of a manual worker's claim management process that was over 30 years old.
- Faster, easier and more reliable implementation of new policies.
- Improved services to workers thanks to streamlined and automated claim management.
Part 2: Three Agencies Make the Case for Decision Making Management Technology
The expanding use of technology, in particular the combination of business rules and business process management technologies, allows governments to build more agile IT systems that are responsive to change, improve services to citizens and increase visibility into the way decisions are made.
During this webinar, hear how IBM customers are using decision management technology, specifically business rules, in combination with business process management to go quickly and directly from business needs to deployment in order to:
- Shorten eligibility determination and benefit calculation from 6 days to 7 minutes.
- Reduce their total cost of ownership while re-using rule applications across their organization.
- Dramatically improve services to citizens thanks to self-screening and web-based services.
- Increase decision accuracy, consistency and granularity.
Mitigating IT Infrastructure Risks
Learn how to better control IT failure — especially during emergencies
GovPro and American City & County have joined with the Public Technology Institute to help local government officials recognize and address IT-related risks throughout the organization.
This webinar will explore the immediate need for local government officials to better understand how to lessen the risk of their IT/Communications infrastructure becoming inoperable. Speakers will review the current status of several operations including public safety.
At this session you will learn:
- How to identify unrecognized weaknesses of many departments
- False assumptions about IT
- How to create a strategy to lessen risk
- How to maintain IT operations with a small staff
- Effective ways to lessen downtime
Cutting Your Grass, Not Your Budget
How to Keep Your Grounds Maintenance Moving Through Tough Economic Times
Creating a strategy to secure the equipment you need to maintain operations is one of the keys to maximizing the limited dollars available. Government Product News and Government Procurement have joined with The Toro Company to produce a free one-hour Webinar on Wednesday, May 19, to explore the alternatives to consider as you build a strategic grounds maintenance equipment acquisition plan.
During this one hour free Webinar, you will learn how to:
- Build an acquisition plan and how it will help pay for needed equipment.
- Decide the best option for payment: cash, lease, rental or installment loan.
- Develop the true cost of ownership.
- Use free fleet management tools that can help you manage your fleet more effectively and provide better data, including one that helps you order and stock parts, track repairs and management preventive maintenance.
A strategic plan will help make your department's daily work easier while maximizing the useful life of your equipment, which helps you leverage your available resources to their fullest capacity.
Best Practices for Building an Energy Efficient Data Center
More than 50% of power going into a typical data center goes to the power and cooling systems...NOT to the IT loads. And, data center designers can reduce electrical bills by about $1000 annually for every kilowatt saved.
Find out how business requirements, pressures and IT initiatives such as virtualization can cause problems and place additional burdens on data center designers and operators to maximize efficiency. Obtain an understanding of the primary drivers of data center inefficiency along with possible solutions and remedies that may provide a rapid ROI.
These challenges along with an explanation of the two ratings for measuring data center efficiency, the Power Utilization Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE) will be addressed.
You will learn:
- How to identify power and cooling design and operation issues that compromise efficiency
- The elements of a highly efficient power architecture
- Solutions for high density and efficient cooling architectures through the use of close-coupled cooling
- About increasing cooling efficiency through Water-Side and Air-Side Economizers
- How to manage efficiency through Capacity and Change Management
Moderator: Michael Keating, Senior Editor, Government Product News
Presenter: Tony Evans, Director, APC Worldwide, Defense Systems Team
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