Optimise equipment management this construction holiday with Centix

The construction holiday is just around the corner, and although work on construction sites is temporarily halted, this is not the time to sit still. It’s the perfect opportunity to elevate your equipment management with Centix’s software solution. With our proven best practices, we help your organisation make progress during this period of downtime.

1. Registration of equipment and tools

Whether your current registration system is digital, in an Excel sheet, or even maintained on paper, Centix offers a streamlined solution to register all your equipment and tools quickly and efficiently. With our best practices in equipment management, you are assured of accurate records that you can easily maintain independently.

2. Provide equipment with QR code stickers

As equipment is not in use during the construction holiday, this is the perfect time to provide each item with a unique QR code sticker. This small but powerful addition ensures that every employee can easily identify which equipment is assigned to them and what the inspection date is. Inspection certificates and documents, such as manuals, can also be easily retrieved by scanning the QR code.

An advantage of the QR codes is that you can easily scan them with your smartphone or tablet. This gives us instant access to the data, and we no longer need special reading equipment for this.  – Fire Department Twente 

3. Inspection of equipment

The construction holiday is a period when much work equipment is inspected to ensure that everything remains safe and compliant with legislation. With Centix, inspecting equipment becomes a simple task. Use standard checklists to inspect all work equipment. In case of discrepancies, you can select them from a standard list and add notes and photos. Additionally, Centix offers an automated solution where PAT testing measurement data are read directly from the PAT tester. Once the inspection is complete, the certificate is also generated automatically. Any external inspections and certificates can be easily linked to individual inspections or imported in bulk. Furthermore, inspection companies can be granted access to inspect with Centix.

Centix Online has brought considerable speed improvements to tool inspections. This is due to our ability to instantly determine the status of each item: what has been inspected and what hasn’t. If any issues are found, we can effortlessly capture a photo and incorporate it into the system. DCW

4. Equipment allocation by name

Once all equipment has been registered and inspected, it can be moved to the right location. Avoid confusion and increase responsibility by assigning equipment to specific employees. This way, each employee has exactly what they need, and overflowing work vans are avoided. This ensures a clear overview of where the equipment is and minimises losses.

By scanning the QR code, an employee can see whether or not it is their equipment. This way, they can leave the construction site with their own items, instead of them disappearing into someone else’s van.
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5. Set up automatic notifications

To ensure that an inspection date is never missed again, Centix offers the option to receive automatic reminders for future inspections. This prevents equipment from becoming unfit for use and ensures that everything always meets the required safety standards.

I no longer have to chase people to inspect equipment. The Centix system handles it for me now. It sends my colleagues an email when inspections are due. I find that ideal and it saves me a lot of time! Forteck

Conclusion

This construction season is the ideal time to invest in your company’s efficiency. Switch to Centix and discover for yourself the benefits of our advanced equipment management software solution. Improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance safety — all with one powerful tool that fits in your pocket.

Discover what Centix could do for your organisation

Have you become enthusiastic and want to know more? It would be my pleasure to take you through the possibilities Centix has to offer in a product demonstration. Depending on your requirements, I will brief you in half an hour to an hour and a half to give you a clear picture of our software solution!