GAGEtrak lets you create activities and assign them to a gage and a custodian. These activities can be just about anything—routine maintenance, a visual inspection, or really whatever you need done on a tool. The nice part is that you can also put these activities on a schedule so they repeat as often as you need.
Here’s how you can set one up.
First, head over to your Gages page.
To get there, open the main menu in the bottom-left corner of the application, then click Gages at the top left.
Once you’re on the Gages page, click on the Schedules tab.
From there, expand the Activities section by clicking on the word Activities or the + icon with the circle around it. This is where all the activity scheduling magic happens.
To create a new activity, click the + icon (again, the one with the circle around it) next to the activity navigation buttons. That will open the Create Activity prompt.
Here, you can give the activity a name—or, if you already have one set up, you can select an activity template instead.
After naming the activity, the General Information section becomes available. This is where you’ll assign the responsible person (the custodian), and just below that, you’ll set up the schedule for how often the activity should repeat—if it needs to repeat at all.
Once the schedule is filled out, take a look at the top of the General section. You’ll see a Last Schedule Date and a Next Due Date, with a Calculate button in between. Click Calculate, and GAGEtrak will figure out when the activity is due next.
When everything looks good, click Create Activity beneath the General section. That’ll take you straight to the Activities page.
On the Activities page, you can see every activity in the system along with the gage ID each one is associated with. From here, you can also do the reverse of what we just walked through—create an activity first and then attach it to a tool afterward.