Test Resource Management
Working Together, Better by Transforming the way Test Assets and Resources are Managed
Test Resource Management (TRM) is a new category of solution focused on helping organizations significantly invested in test (knowledge, people, and equipment) increase the speed and competitiveness of test operations.
We have augmented Sente's Accelerated Enterprise Asset Management solution with test-equipment-specific knowledge and workflows. TRM is described in more detail here. How leading companies are using it to transform test operations is described in more detail here. The explanation of the marketplace forces that make it an essential capability today is explained here.
Test Resource Management helps enterprises integrate the test process with both engineering and manufacturing workflows ensuring those processes have the right equipment and resources at the right time at the lowest possible cost. One of the ways it does this is by ending That One Bad Habit That Costs you Millions, hoarding, as the frustrations that cause hoarding end, teams improve collaboration and equipment sharing.
It helps companies transform their asset-intensive operations for speed by ending cross-functional dysfunction and hoarding.
Test Resource Management solutions CONNECT your teams and their assets, POWER those teams with embedded knowledge and ACCELERATES them by eliminating friction and dysfunction.
The bottom line, Test Resource Management solutions help your team win.
- Satisfy your internal customers
- Beat competitive standards for utilization
- Leverage assets & knowledge across your organization
- Freeing up time and resources to fuel growth
- Measure and quantify the financial benefits of the program
Test Resource Management Outcomes
50% to 75% Reduced OPEX & CAPEX
Asset Utilization Increases 4X
30% Faster Test Processes
Enabled through better coordination of resources
40% Reduced Obsolescence
Targeting Risks, Leveraging New, Targeting Investment.
2X Proactive
Reduced reactiveness led to fewer errors and increased trust.
Notable Quotes
Notable Features
Accountability Consoles
Accountability consoles enable tracking of process compliance so trust in the processes grows. As trust builds in all engineering processes, so does sharing, collaboration, and speed.
Action Grid
Customize your data grids for whatever workflow you are executing whether you are scheduling calibrations, analyzing test process breakdowns and corrective actions or simply accounting for assets you own.
Accelerate Utilization and Increase Availability
Capability for accessing equipment availability, making requests for equipment, assessing equipment inventory risk, planning capacity, optimizing utilization, and reducing total-cost-of-ownership.
Equipment Search
Leveraging embedded knowledge of test equipment capabilities you can easily search and find the precise equipment you need and its availability quickly.
Risk Reduction Console
Using embedded knowledge of test equipment obsolescence you can quickly identify risks. As risky assets are removed, reliability improves. Knowing historical and planned utilization, specific program use and obsolescence data enable teams to remove those ticking time-bombs.
Capability for planning and coordinating multiple test events with the resources, equipment and associated calibration and maintenance services required to avoid unforeseen, last minute conflicts or delays
Lab Management Console
Bring visibility to all key test activities and associated resources enabling constraint analysis and contingency planning to avoid unnecessary costs and delays.
Testing Delay Console
Instrument the processes your assets are used in and capture process breakdowns in this powerful Console enabling focus on key issues slowing your processes down.
Integrated Equipment Request
Improve readiness of all of the ancillary equipment you'll need to successfully complete your test. Be alerted if a device will require calibration or maintenance actions prior to or during the anticipated test time.
Software for preventing downtime including scheduling of maintenance events in multiple time horizons, documenting maintenance methods, auto-scheduling events, managing service teams, and escalating downtime issues when they occur.
Equipment Performance Console (downtime, rts, MTBS)
Ongoing analysis of equipment performance enables proactive shaping of the inventory to increase uptime, reducing costly delays in investment in un-needed equipment.
Equipment Performance Console (Pareto)
Being able to analyze systemic issues in your engineering test environment and feed a closed-loop improvement process is essential to driving speed and cost reduction
Sente's workshops are designed to produce an outcome that will enable teams to get started down the path of increasing their competitiveness. They provide contexts for the need to change and plans to get started. The workshops include:
- Agreement on specific purposes
- Instructions and coaching in preparation
- Virtual or On-site workshop facilitation and action plan generation
- Workshop Follow up
The most significant source of equipment costs and delays is hoarding. Using data collected in our software we identify these behaviors and end them for good. An integral part of this service is the development, training, and communications of narratives targeted at each of the constituencies required to end hoarding.
