Motion F5m tablet shipping again after sharing the stage with Xplore for the first time
Companies keen to deploy the Motion F5m tablet, who have been thwarted by lack of availability got some good news at last week’s Service Management Expo – new owners Xplore Technologies announced that the tablet has begun shipping again. Stocks dwindled rapidly when Motion Computing’s screen supplier abruptly closed its...
Cognito appoints Laurent Othacéhé as CEO
Cognito, the field service management solutions company, has appointed Laurent Othacéhé as CEO, as part of a wider organisational restructure intended to position the company for growth. Othacéhé joined Cognito in 2014 as Sales Director, bringing with him more than 20 years’ experience in the field service industry. Prior to...
The 2020 Field Engineer’s Toolkit – Part 2
Welcome back to this exclusive Field Service News series in which Kris Oldland is exploring some of the technologies that could well become common place tools in the field engineer of 2020’s armoury. In part one the focus was on smart watches, now in this the second feature in the series we look at how …...
Eight of ten truck standstills can be avoided with preventive maintenance
The number of unplanned truck standstills can be cut by 80 per cent. This is revealed in a study conducted by Volvo Trucks. In the long term, the aim is that unplanned standstills should entirely disappear. One key explanation for this expected trend is online connectivity in trucks, a development that creates entirely new scope …...
The 2020 Field Engineer’s toolkit
In this new four-part series Field Service News Editor Kris Oldland takes a look at five key tools forecast to become part of the field service engineer’s toolkit in the not so distant future. As a child of the eighties with a penchant for a bit of science fiction to me the year 2015 sounds …...
