"We suffered a lot of flood damage in 2019, resulting in hundreds of FEMA qualified damage sites. We created a Project for FEMA 2019 and then created a Service Request for each site. All of our labor, equipment, contractors, materials and GPS-tagged pictures were directly tied to the overall FEMA project and split out by site. [...]
Since the very beginning, PubWorks has included a material and parts product inventory that is seamlessly integrated with our various ways of documenting work (e.g: via Fleet Work Order or a Crew Activity). We've also supported the concept of a "transaction" where, through a simple, yet formal process, inventory quantities and unit costs are managed and [...]
New Feature: Assign Photos to an Asset When looking at an asset record, it’s great that you can read and edit the many attributes like Department or Acquisition Date but being able to see a picture of the asset would also be great. This is now available! Broadly speaking, the PubWorks asset records with picture display [...]
A KPI is a Key Performance Indicator and in PubWorks we've just added the ability to analyze six KPIs. Downtime Tracking and Repair Event Sequence Records is a way to track definitive and customer-defined events during the life of a fleet Work Order that help you track vehicle status (in service versus out of service) and measure downtimes. 1) [...]
Setting-Up PubWorks to Track COVID-19 Hours and Work Like so much related to COVID-19 we still don’t know what financial help may be available this year. This makes it difficult to know which reports will be needed for reimbursements. PubWorks’ flexible design can help you with these [...]
Working smarter not harder is the essence of efficiency and PubWorks Mobile (on your smart phone or tablet) was designed to make this an easily achieved reality. Repeat trips back to the office to get that latest work order or relaying service requests over the radio describing the blocked culvert or down sign? With [...]
Fleet Maintenance - A Tale of Two Cities. We recently hosted a Fleet Maintenance Webinar, (you can watch it here), and received numerous questions from a couple of great PubWorks customers. I decided to give them both a call to see how they use PubWorks Fleet Maintenance. I first spoke with Dustin Whipple at [...]
Tasks - It's What You Do. I recently took a trip to visit five of our Colorado County customers. Each county does things a little differently, but one thing is the same - they manage a lot of road miles, and they use Tasks in PubWorks to help them track their maintenance. A Task [...]
PubWorks would like to show you some of what has been cooking so far this year. We have five new items on our list of What's New features. I'd also like to encourage you to take a few minutes to dive into our Support website to admire all the support resources we've accumulated over the [...]
FEMA - When Disaster Strikes, Your Public Works Department Gets Busy The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has been busy lately cleaning up after a seemingly endless summer of disaster strikes. The latest rounds of unpredictable acts of Mother Nature have kept our customers busy with clean-up efforts. We thought it was fitting to post [...]
