Preventive Maintenance Software for Industry and Facilities

William Murphy, Jr. the Maintenance Manager for Caterpillar – Joliet, IL facility was this year’s recipient for a free 1 year subscription to MAPCON On-Demand at MARTS 2013.

William is the Maintenance Manager for the Hydraulics & Hydraulics Business Unit. He stopped by our booth to look at MAPCON, especially MAPCON Mobile and the advantages it has to offer.

We are excited to welcome William to our MAPCON family!

MAPCON Professional, the Windows Server edition of our Maintenance Software, has been updated with great new features, including a dashboard to instantly view the status of critical reports. The dashboard uses a Graphic Report Generator to display bar charts or pie graphs to visually show how your maintenance assets are progressing within MAPCON Professional, providing useful information in a glance!

MAPCON Technologies, Inc. has been busy developing enhancements to increase the flexibility of MAPCON’s Maintenance Software. You can now coordinate your MAPCON Professional e-mails with Microsoft Outlook so you have a record of ‘Sent Items’, and optionally track Delivery or Read Receipt notifications. We’ve also added Cost Center Budgets to allow users to track how much they can spend in each fiscal period. MAPCON Maintenance Software can quickly distribute the costs over each period, or the user can enter specific dollar amounts for each period.

There are a lot of people who like to use Google Maps on the internet, so we thought we’d take advantage of that technology. MAPCON Professional Maintenance Software now includes a place to store the Latitude and Longitude of any building location. Simply click a button to open a link to the internet and view the Google Map of that location, including satellite or Street Views (if available).

For our long time users, some of which go back over 20 years, we have enhanced the Inventory Usage Window to allow users to select a specific stockroom in which they want to see the activity. We’ve also added a routine when deleting old PM descriptions that makes it much easier to handle any outstanding work orders and close them out, too.

Give us a call at 1-800-223-4791 ask for Support and request your 5.20 upgrade today! All you need is a current annual support contract and you can take advantage of the new features!

Located in Nova Scotia, Canada, A.C. Dispensing Equipment, Inc. will be using our multi-user Mapcon Maintenance Software (Lite version) to help maintain their manufacturing equipment.

Best known for their SureShot brand name, they developed the first portion control dispenser in 1985, and have built their reputation on innovation and developing solutions for the dispensing challenges of their customers.

They develop their products in-house, controlling every aspect of the process from design through delivery. Their research and engineering teams work in conjunction with production to make concepts reality. They have modern state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities that are specifically designed to meet and exceed the needs of their customers. An ongoing investment in research and development ensures that their company has the flexibility and market knowledge to develop equipment that will help their customer’s changing business grow and stay profitable. They are close to air, sea and land routes enabling them to serve the global marketplace.

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What started as a dry cleaning and shirt laundry called Spic & Span Linen Supply in a dusty 1932 downtown Omaha, Nebraska has evolved into a full service linen supply company.  In the 1960′s several restaurant customers expressed interest in having the company provide their table linen service which grew rapidly to become a core business unit.  Then in 1979, Spin Linen branched out from the hospitality and restaurant market niche into healthcare services as well. During its 82-year history, the company has expanded over 400% and established a solid foundation in the Midwest.  Spin Linen now services a sprawling business community spanning hundreds of miles across two states.

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Located 45 minutes from Niagara Falls, Darien Lake Theme Park is an adventure land of fun for all ages! We especially appreciate the fact that they have decided to implement MAPCON Building Maintenance Software to track the maintenance of the many buildings located throughout the huge park, and in the future they will also track ride maintenance as well.

Darien Lake Theme Park will utilize MAPCON’s “On-Demand” building maintenance software version.

When it comes to fun, Darien Lake has a lot of rides!  Kids Rides, Family Rides, Thrill Rides (at least 4 Roller Coasters) and even a 10-acre Water Park are all integrated into the popular facility. In addition, Darien Lake boasts a campground, cabins on the lake, live shows and entertainment, concert theatre, and a spectacular laser light show.  There is something for everyone at Darien Lake.

We are thrilled to welcome Darien Lake to the MAPCON building maintenance software family! It might be a wise idea if you did the same!  In the meantime, when you’re next visiting upstate New York near the city of Buffalo, plan to stop at Daren Lake Theme Park.

The Mapcon Users Group Conference starts the week of September 24th this year, and we are pleased to announce our keynote speaker is none other than Doc Palmer, a specialist in maintenance planning and scheduling. Doc has written an excellent handbook on maintenance scheduling, and at MUG he will be presenting “Planning and Scheduling: Increase Your Workforce without Hiring”.

Doc Palmer is a registered professional engineer with a master’s degree in business administration. He is also a CMRP, Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional.

Doc Palmer has over three decades of industrial experience as a practitioner primarily within the maintenance department of the Jacksonville Electric Authority, a major United States electric utility. From 1990 through 1994, Palmer was responsible for overhauling the existing maintenance planning organization. The resulting success played a role in expanding planning to all crafts and stations owned and operated by the utility. Publisher McGraw-Hill subsequently sought out Palmer to author the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook published in 1999 and now in its second edition (2005). Palmer also directed the purchase and implementation of a CMMS and administered the maintenance program. Additionally, he has delivered numerous well-received maintenance articles and presentations for industry.

Please join us this year for a most enlightening experience and learning how to Simplify Success with Cutting Edge Technology at MUG!

Your Mapcon User Group Committee
To register for MUG, call Diane Wiand at 1-515-331-3358

Pannonia Ethanol is developing a bioethanol facility in Dunafoldvar, Hungary. The facility will produce up to 240 million litres of bioethanol fuel, 175,000 tons of Dried Distillers Grains and Solubles (DDGS) a high protein animal feed and utilize roughly 575,000 tons of corn annually. It is expected to be an economic boost and stabilizer to the Hungarian Corn Market.

MAPCON Technologies, Inc. will supply the new Hungarian ethanol plant with the powerful Windows Server version of its world-renowned Preventive Maintenance Software.

Currently, MAPCON preventive maintenance software is utilized in over 50% of all ethnanol plants in the United States.  We are very happy to be of service in the European Union as well.  For more information, please contact Tom Kopsa, MAPCON Corporate Accounts Mananger at 1 (800) 922-4336 or email sales@mapcon.com.

Xcel Energy is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has several divisions. The power plant to generate energy for consumers is the most widely known. The Liquid Natural Gas plant has been using MAPCON Work Order software since 2002. They track Work Requests from Operators and have PM procedures to follow.

Recently, they have a goal for the Operators to use the Work Order Software to start the work flow process instead of using requests. The biggest advantage is that the Work Order will validate the equipment number that is entered, reducing the possibility of incorrect numbers being used. Also, by eliminating the request-to-order transfer process, managers can simply review the submitted order and just click Approve and the work order is ready to go. This is a much more efficient process from start to finish.

One of the enhancements was to make the Work Order software window easier to use. By placing security codes on many of the fields which are not being used, they are hidden from view for the Operators. This simplified form is easier to fill in, and the clutter is eliminated. This is an easy process that can be applied to any MAPCON Work Order Software data entry window for better usability and faster data entry.