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Competitors, human resource shortages, fickle and demanding customers, and regulatory demands pose obstacles. Human resources are a significant competitive advantage in today's tech-neutral world.
FREMONT, CA: The utility industry faces a variety of obstacles. Threats from competitors, a lack of human resources, fickle and demanding clients, regulatory restrictions, and other factors provide formidable challenges. In today's era of technological parity, human resources are frequently the most crucial distinction between businesses and the primary source of competitive advantage. This is especially true in the utility industry, where field staff has direct client interaction. In addition, they are responsible for fundamental activities such as building basic infrastructure, establishing new connections, disconnections, and routine maintenance. Here is how field service software assists utility businesses and their employees, enabling significant enhancements and delivering a fantastic customer experience.
Live Tracking
The Uberization of service industries is now a reality. Live updates are preferred by all stakeholders, including senior management, customers, and support employees. GPS-enabled field management software enables such live tracking capabilities to be delivered as intuitive mobile apps to the client and other stakeholders.
The customer's app specifies the technician's location and provides accurate ETA estimates. The supervisor's app offers insight into all field-level actions, allowing them to monitor their employees at all times. The top management has a birds-eye perspective of the entire spectrum of field operations, allowing for greater control. Strategists and planners find significant trends and insights, such as perennial bottlenecks that are amenable to preemptive intervention.
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A field management suite transforms scheduling from an imprecise science into an advantageous tool.
Enhanced Automation
When field service software is integrated with core company systems, it automates several essential operations and provides several overall benefits.
Machines and equipment driven by IoT sensors automatically issue tickets in the Field Service Management system whenever readings deviate from the mean. The key automatically generates a work task, assigning the best available technician based on the case's specifics. Along with other stakeholders like the client, field employees equipped with digital technology receive real-time notifications.
Upon arrival at the site, the digital field employees don augmented reality goggles to obtain a more detailed, annotated image of the machinery. The field service software clarifies the service history, customer preferences, and all other nuances. The suite's collaborative component enables the field worker to contact other technicians or issue shutdown alerts.
