SoftSols Group, a leading provider of maintenance management software, today announces that the Emmanuel Schools Foundation (ESF), which promotes high standards within comprehensive secondary education, has purchased its web-based maintenance management system – Agility.  Agility will help the Emmanuel Schools Foundation to manage its main assets effectively - £75 million worth of buildings and infrastructure across three education sites.

ESF is based in the North-east of England and covers three educational sites in Middlesbrough, Doncaster and Gateshead.  Emmanuel College opened in 1990 and is among the top five percent of schools in terms of academic results in England.  This was joined by The King’s Academy and Trinity Academy, which were set-up at the request of local authorities to replace under achieving schools.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RF Monolithics, Inc. ("RFM" or the “Company") (Nasdaq:RFMI - News) today announced it will offer its recently acquired asset management software through and under the name of its subsidiary, Aleier, Inc., and discontinue use of the Caver-Morehead Systems brand. The new name reflects the expanded scope that RFM plans for Aleier. Aleier will build on a strong foundation as a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) application provider and will increasingly provide a broader asset management solution, particularly condition-based maintenance. Aleier’s new name and scope will be supported by its new web site at www.aleier.com

Cincinnati, Ohio—PDmB, Inc., a leader in the field of home inspection software, announces the release of PDspect, a customizable inspection program adaptable to almost any audit or inspection application. The capabilities and flexibility that made PDmB’s home inspection software the leader in that industry have now been integrated into a commercial-use audit and inspection program applicable to a wide variety of industries. With PDspect inspectors and auditors in fields as diverse as franchise restaurant management, heavy equipment maintenance, or playground inspection can tailor their audits and inspections to their specific needs.

FasTrak SoftWorks, Inc. is pleased to announce that our CMMS / EAM software, FTMaintenance, now has the capability to link directly to critical data within PLCs, RTUs, and other similar devices to automatically generate work orders based on any type of input such as equipment runtime, temperature, or pressure. Communication—through the use of OPC servers—allows FTMaintenance to work with virtually any PLC, RTU, or hardware device. Use this powerful software to:

Specify the condition triggers that require maintenance to be performed.

September 12, 2006
By Houghton Leroy

ARC Advisory Group was recently briefed by Ivara on their Asset Reliability Solution and partnership with MRO Software, soon to be part of IBM.

Ivara focuses on making maintenance more proactive to achieve increased plant output and other important benefits.  Ivara’s WorkSmart Methodology permits customers to address reliability one system at a time, enabling rapid ROI, effective change management and sustained improvement.  The software solution, Ivara EXP, offers a complete reliability system to manage asset health as part of a proactive condition based and reliability centered maintenance program.  It complements EAM systems, such as MRO Software’s Maximo, by helping to identify the right work on the right equipment at the right time.

Hansen Information Technologies (Hansen®), a leading provider of software applications for the public sector market, today announced the acquisition of Australia’s leading Advanced Asset Management product--a product designed in accordance with the 2006 Edition of the International Infrastructure Management Manual (IIMM). The new module will expand Hansen’s leading enterprise asset management suite to provide real-time infrastructure decision support, predictive modeling, and optimized renewal analysis for long-range capital planning of public sector assets.

Wendy’s International, Inc., one of the world’s largest restaurant chains, has chosen the restaurant edition of Corrigo’s web-based and wireless facility management solution to manage maintenance service delivery in its 1,400 company-owned locations.

Corrigo’s maintenance management software will provide Wendy’s with visibility into and control over the cost and quality of facilities services performed in their restaurants. The tool supplies building and equipment maintenance metrics by aggregate, regional, district or local level to help Wendy’s proactively manage maintenance operations and achieve consistent execution and cost savings. 

AssetPoint (www.assetpoint.com), a leader in Enterprise Asset Management and Computerized Maintenance Management Solutions (EAM/CMMS) and a Microsoft Certified Partner, today announced the release of TabWare Express™ for small- and medium-sized businesses.

“This offering is designed to fill the need for small and medium businesses that need a simple way to manage equipment and work order functions to maintain their operations,” said Vince Carrozzi, Executive Vice President of AssetPoint. “A new customer can be up and running with TabWare Express in just a week or so with our new Internet-based tutorials and pre-configured setup,” Carrozzi said. “We have minimized the amount of setup required to use the product.” TabWare Express also provides an easy upgrade path to TabWare EFx, AssetPoint’s Enterprise Asset Management package.

i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that it has filed a suit for patent infringement against SAP AG and SAP Americas, Inc.  The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleges infringement of seven patents related to supply chain management.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2006--RF Monolithics, Inc. ("RFM") (Nasdaq:RFMI) today announced the closing of its acquisition of computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) vendor Caver-Morehead Services, Inc. The acquisition, which was initially announced on August 28th, will significantly expand RFM’s capabilities and position it to meet the rapidly growing demand for comprehensive wireless solutions, particularly in industrial market applications.

Caver-Morehead’s software platform offers tracking and analysis tools that enable facilities to streamline maintenance processes and improve overall efficiency. By harnessing available information to optimize task scheduling, resource allocation, and inventory management, Caver-Morehead has created tremendous value for a diverse set of customers including airports, hospitals, prisons, colleges, and high-tech production facilities, among others.