Field service automation is utilized to handle resources in various industries:

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  • In telecommunications and cable industry, technicians who install cable or run phone lines into residences or business establishments.
  • In healthcare, mobile nurses who provide in-home care for elderly or disabled.
  • In gas utilities, engineers who are dispatched to Investigate and repair suspected leaks.
  • In heavy engineering, industrial and manufacturing, mining.
  • In property maintenance, consisting of irrigation, landscaping and home plus office cleaning.
  • In HVAC industry, technicians have the expertise and equipment to investigate units in residential, commercial and industrial environments

Ideas for implementing automation in field service

  • Automate scheduling
Various aspects of service scheduling and staffing can be completely automated. When service and dispatch professionals put in requests for desired work hours, software can bump these recommendations up against customer needs, finding opportunities for greater efficiency. In addition, alerts and real-time updates can keep leadership abreast of scheduling improvements.
  • Streamline work order management
Human error is unavoidable when it comes to pricing, invoicing, and closing out costly jobs. Consider streamlining work order management through automation software. Various tools can provide work estimates to customers, forecast based on previous numbers, and send automated payment or invoicing reminders to all parties involved.
  • Simplify dispatch
Field service personnel managers recognize how difficult communication can be. Keeping track of techs, and job completions are key to a dispatch manager’s daily grind. Dispatch automation and route optimization software can simplify dispatch by delivering real-time route information, tech activity while on-site, and notices when jobs are completed.

Main Challenges Faced During Field Service Automation:

  • Making the System Responsive
  • Keeping Things Moving
  • Assuring Ease of Use
  • Incoherent employee communication
  • Complicated scheduling and dispatch
  • Remote inventory management
  • Customer and work order management
  • Employee tracking and performance
  • Over-worked and under-skilled resources
Field service will turn out to be an increasingly competitive industry, as customers become more choosy about the services and products they pay for. An establishment’s skill to deliver fast and effective results through a mobile workforce may be the factor between leading or trailing their competitors. Field service management software is no longer a secret weapon wielded by enterprises; it’s a necessary tool for survival, and one of the best gifts you can give your agents.

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