Hamilton Hall software enlisted to power new tracking and maintenance network for Royal Navy pump contract
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The Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO), the government body tasked with keeping the UK's armed forces equipped and ready for combat, has allowed product lifecycle management system, LEO, to join up for a new contract to manage the Royal Navy's pump stock.
Used in conjunction with the DI400, a Diagnostic Instruments manufactured rugged handheld, the Hamilton Hall created LEO will track, repair and maintain the estimated 8,000 pumps that the Navy uses or stores.
Working with prime contractor, Optima NNC, Hamilton Hall says LEO will automatically organise and prioritise the scheduling of tracking and repair tasks, and allow engineers in the field to update details of the maintenance jobs they undertake in real time.
All the work will be guided from LEO's central database and will also connect non-field personnel working in workshops, using wi-fi with a local wireless network.
The system's first mission, however, will be to carry out an audit of the Navy's warehouses and equipment to find out how many pumps it has, where they are, assess their current condition and types, and use this data to put in place a barcode based tracking system.
According to Tim Bealby, Hamilton's technical pre-sales manager, while the project will initially use only half a dozen field engineers, this number expected to grow throughout the contract, which is set to run for ten years.
'In terms of the total number of users, it will grow and grow, because the MoD, and the DLO, are looking at other kinds of systems to use the same kind of product lifecycle management principles with, such as electric motors and other kinds of assets used by the three armed services,' he told Service Management.
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