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We are looking at changing our asset tags due to hospital equipment reallocation and the fact that a number of them are worn and badly damaged. Our current label contains a unique asset number and barcode. It is a metallic type surface with a sticky back. Any suggestions on possible alternatives that can be easily produced are hard wearing and can be accommodated on small and big pieces of equipment?

We went to fine cut graphics with a design and had different sizes and types made to fit differing equipment. Worth a call to a company like that. Their website has lots of medical grade labels and designs to base your ideas on.

We use those in our hospitals, they resist cleaners very well and we can have anything on them.

Brother P-Touch labelling

DaveC is this the right thread that you wanted, Geoff, fan bearings are parts and therefore part of a main unit that will be tagged. All equipment coming into the hospital is given a tag number once the end-user has completed the acceptance report the equipment is then tagged. Spare parts are inventoried as spare parts. When an end-user reports a fault the departmental code in the system ensures that the service order is sent to that particular department. No histrionics, no complications and no duplications.

... but under the wrong thread, unfortunately!

OK ... that's the way you do it there (I'm guessing), but it's by no means the only way. Or put another way, what may work for your people there might not "cut the mustard" elsewhere.

Again, I cite the example of the bearing (one of many) in the Plant Room. I have seen places where each bearing is tagged. And even where some of the more critical ones are monitored (using telemetry) for temperature and vibration.

On the other hand, no doubt we have all been in places where they don't even have a list of the kit they have ... and (worse yet) no handyman around to fix stuff anyway!

Air conditioning, fire alarms, chillers, blood bank freezers etc are all monitored by the building maintenance system (BMS) and you can add-in any equipment you want as long as the data is available.

"Horses for courses" here Neil.

If you are working in a place where there is a system that works in both biomed and facilities then well and good. The way that we work however is not like that.

As a company we work across many different hospital groups, day surg, ambulance services, etc, each group having a different "in-house" system. It would be unmanageable for us to work with so many different systems so we bring a single "external" system with us. As a regional manager I simply could not work with 5 or 6 different systems, it would be chaos.

That being said, with a couple of the groups we deal with, we have started to get them to use our current system (Service Centre) for their facilities work. It is taking considerable effort/time (getting test scripts written, etc, etc) but the end result may be worth the effort. At least it keeps our IT guys busy


I agree that, if possible, it is desirable for a single system to be used across all maintenance services at a single site or hospital grouping but in "my world" that just ain't possible. That is why we have separate systems at our various sites and why we sometimes get facilities jobs on our system and visa versa.

Is this the one?

Orange and black always go so well together.

nope, it's an HP product (taken over when they purchased Peregrine). Tried to find a nice neat link I could give you but......

OK ... how about this one, then?

Blue.

Looks like it even has its own forum!