You are a senior manager who makes
decisions on capital expenses daily.
You oversee a lab filled with hundreds of test instruments.
Did you know standard utilization rates for
test equipment are as low as 10%
and equipment health is not monitored?
Without a tool to monitor this data
how do you make the best CapEx decisions?
Introducing: Keysight PathWave Asset Advisor.
Asset advisor gives you the
information you need to free up budget
to invest in the latest technologies.
For example, you receive a requisition from
one of your managers for a precision digital multimeter.
The manager claims he needs it
because there is a shortage of multimeters in the lab,
but you suspect that
already enough multimeters to go around.
With Asset Advisor, you can look at the data
and see if those instruments are utilized.
Here we see 15 identical instruments in the lab.
In the lastcouple of months,
several were being utilized ?
but two were used only occasionally.
After talking to the teams about their needs,
you decide that one of the multimeters
can be shared among the two teams.
This frees up a unit for the dedicated tests need.
No purchase necessary.
To make sharing easier,
you can track hundreds of instruments by
implementing an efficient loan pool workflow.
In this interface,
your team can quickly check the configuration
check availability,
request and approve or reject requests.
As an operations manager you are responsible
for keeping your equipment running smoothly in the lab.
With hundreds of instruments spread throughout the lab,
staying organized can be a real challenge.
PathWave Asset Advisor gives you insight
into the health of your instruments
in real-time to minimize downtime.
Once you start connecting the assets,
you can act on the data immediately.
For this instrument temperatures were as high as almost 40 degrees Celsius.
The data enabled you to mitigate the situation.
In this case your team moved the rack
and added fans to increase ventilation and circulation
which permanently reduced temperatures by five degrees.
Potential failure and downtime avoided!
Asset Advisor makes it easy to track and monitor all your assets
including equipment rentals
to reduce downtime and quickly address
annual tests inventory audits.
You can easily view upcoming calibration
due dates and start coordinating your plan.
For example, a test system,
comprised of multiple instruments,
can be calibrated together avoiding a longer than needed downtime
when calibrated individually ons eparate due dates.
As an example,
some instruments have service due dates in October,
some in November.
With that in mind,
you quickly decide to calibrate all your instruments in October
reducing downtime of critical test systems.
You request service in the same user
interface through a shopping cart experience
and then monitor the status of the equipment
until arrival back at your lab.
You also have the option of on-site calibration,
where Keysight brings all the equipment and personnel
required to perform the calibrations to your location.
This significantly reduces
your instrument downtime from days to hours
and reduces overall cost.
Additionally, you will find the
calibration certificates and the entire
calibration history at your fingertips
which instantly prepares you for an
audit at any time without the need for any manual updates,
thanks to a fully integrated solution
with the Keysight service center.
As an operations or lab manager
you perform analytics on your test assets
in comprehensive dashboards
to quickly assess the utilization and
health of your equipment globally across
all regions, labs, and sites.
You can easily define utilization thresholds
and pinpoint underutilized or unhealthy
instruments by sorting and visualizing the data.
You can see utilization levels by the
size of your investment and locate the
root cause of the most significant contributors.
For example signal generators
are one of your highest investments
yet almost not being used.
You decide on selective trade-in and
rental models to free up budget for
critical test needs and latest measurement instruments.
Real-time information of instrument health
keeps you one step ahead.
For example at your Singapore operation,
you had an issue with a mixed signal oscilloscope
and you were able to quickly identify that voltage
levels reached maximum thresholds.
You addressed voltage variability
with your power company.
If not addressed, the instrument's
specifications are not guaranteed to be in range,
voltage levels may exceed calibration limits and in turn
compromise measurements and shipped
products to your customers.
Keysight PathWave Asset Advisor will give you
access to real-time actionable data
that helps with capital allocations,
proactive risk mitigation, efficiencies, and cost reductions.
Talk to your Keysight representative for more information.