The document proposes a new application called EquipMax that would enable optimum resource utilization for projects. It would maintain and compare present and historic data on resources to obtain greater efficiency. EquipMax would generate automated reports to monitor resources and replace depleting resources. This would help avoid delays and disruptions. EquipMax is presented as an improvement over traditional ERP software by using statistical data to continuously enhance products and suggest best practices. The current implementation of EquipMax monitors resource efficacy to determine viability from a cost-cutting perspective.

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Case Study on EquipMax
Mr. Mayank Jain
Thakur College of
Engineering and
Technology,
Thakur Village, Kandivali
(E),
Mumbai -400101
mk.jain.9090@gmail.com
Mr. Gaurav Handa
Thakur College of
Engineering and
Technology,
Thakur Village, Kandivali
(E),
Mumbai -400101
grhinfotech@gmail.com
Mr. Rohan Bhatnagar
Thakur College of
Engineering and
Technology,
Thakur Village, Kandivali
(E),
Mumbai -400101
roha29pb@gmail.como
ABSTRACT
Resource automation has gained significance in
the backdrop of cost cutting initiatives and the
need to mobilize resources for achieving time
bound targets by corporate institutions. It allows
for measuring of statistical data and comparing
them in order to achieve greater resource
utilization efficiency in the longer run. Resource
management has always been one of the most
complicated aspects of project management. The
development of tools for enterprise resource
planning to ensure the efficacy of these resources
allows for better resource mapping and obtain
higher profit margins. We present a review on a
proposed application that would enable optimum
resource utilization by maintaining and comparing
present and historic data in order to obtain greater
efficiency in work output. By generating reports
on various parameters for resources we would be
able to automate the whole process of internal
quality control checks, maintenance checks as well
as enable the automatic order generation to
vendors for replacing depleting resources in order
to maintain the supply-chain order and avoid any
delay/disruption in output. Lastly we propose that
such an application has potential to be a full scale
commercial product using the same concepts for
any other set of resources-data that have attributes
which could be statistically monitored and
controlled.
General Terms
ERP- Enterprise Resource Planning
Keywords
EquipMax – the nomenclature of our proposed
application.
1. INTRODUCTION
Product planning and resource gathering remain
one of the foremost steps into implementing any
product or project. This process is very time
consuming and complicated because not only it
requires a thorough idea about the technologies
and processes that would go into designing and
creating the product it would also need the
calculation of the resources and utilities which
should be precise. This is where EquipMax our
proposed application steps in as it would not only
help in determining resources for the enterprise but
would also keep tabs regarding the performance of
the business product developed using these
resources and their utilization efficiency. This
would allow the monitoring of return-on-
investment for the business product along with
suggesting the alternatives for a particular resource
using better output efficiency and vendor cost
effectiveness information.
While traditional ERP software deal with product
planning, production, maintenance and sales of the
project before-hand, EquipMax would also deal
with methods to further enhance the commercial
viability, resource utilization and work efficiency
of the product using historical data as well as auto-
generated reports for the project leaders with
respect to the efficiency threshold determined
using past statistical records in order to always
ensure an optimum work environment needed for
continuously developing the product in a more
cost effective manner. One of the main advantages
of this in terms of cost effectiveness would be the
reduced amount of paperwork and delays in
making critical decisions regarding resource
acquisition and replenishment along with reduced
amount of man-labor needed for the same process.

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This application can be linked with various
products in their development as well production
stages to achieve the objectives of better
profitability simultaneously.
We begin by introducing EquipMax in section 2
where we shall talk in brief about the concept of
the application which we intend to design. In
section 3 we shall justify why EquipMax is
relevant over other traditional ERP software like
SAP. In section 4 we shall talk about our present
work and the details of our implementation. In
section 5 we shall conclude with suggestions to
enhance further the scope of this application in the
future.
2. EQUIPMAX
In this section we shall talk about EquipMax as an
application, its features and the idea behind it.
2.1 The Current Application
EquipMax is a multifunctional and dynamic
application for TCS Corporate Administration
Group to manage the entire life-cycle of all
equipment, systems and resources deployed in
various TCS locations. The application has
flexible features and a scalable design. It has
mechanisms for instant notifications, automatic
report generations and periodic reminders. A vast
array of text-based and rich graphical reports helps
to understand and analyze the work-environment
data. All these pave the way for a conducive
environment for TCS associates.
2.2 The Concept
EquipMax is a platform where the project leaders
of various projects can put in requests for various
resources to their superiors, critical decisions
regarding allocation of resources
and purchasing them from various vendors based
on archived data for the same can help the division
managers in taking sound decisions while the
performances of these resources can be
simultaneously and continuously monitored by the
maintenance team to ensure that the development
and production stages of the product suffer from
no delays. By linking EquipMax with other
systems and software we can analyze them for
obtaining better work efficiency under different
environments on the basis of past archived data.
3. EQUIPMAX AS A PRODUCT
In this section we shall talk about EquipMax as a
product, its commercial viability based on its
concepts.
3.1 Traditional ERP
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a business
management software—usually a suite of
integrated applications—that a company can use to
collect, store, manage and interpret data from
many business activities, including: product
planning, cost, manufacturing or service delivery
,marketing and sales, inventory management,
shipping and payment.
ERP provides an integrated view of core business
processes, often in real-time, using common
databases maintained by a database management
system. ERP systems track business resources—
cash, raw materials, production capacity—and the
status of business commitments: orders, purchase
orders, and payroll. The applications that make up
the system share data across the various
departments (manufacturing, purchasing, sales,
accounting, etc.) that provide the data. ERP
facilitates information flow between all business
functions, and manages connections to outside
stakeholders.
3.2 EquipMax versus SAP
The traditional SAP ERP software is a suite of
integrated applications that handle the product
planning, product manufacturing, sales, inventory
management, shipping and payment. SAP ERP
therefore is used to form the blueprint of the
production, maintenance, sales and delivery of the
product. It consists of information required to
produce any basic software product and can be
customized to create a more specific software
product. EquipMax too is a large data repository
like SAP that uses historic data and statistics to
make sound management decisions/suggestions
but the underlying difference is that EquipMax
would constantly endeavor to always upgrade the
existing software in terms of performance,
reduction of production time, resource efficiency,
cost effectiveness using historic statistical data
from the other linked software applications and
running background checks for the same. This
makes EquipMax an Integrated Software
Development Environment platform on which
software developed can be modified to further
enhance its functionalities. EquipMax can be used
in other industries like textiles, automobiles, etc.
where EquipMax could be fed with different

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production, designing, maintenance, sales and
delivery scenarios and EquipMax would then use
statistical data to suggest for the best practices to
be used considering an all-round scenario thus
imbibing business intelligence into the business.
Also based on the changing scenario EquipMax
might also suggest changes to be made in the
workflow of the product as means of adaptability
and ensuring maximum production benefits to the
developer.
4. PRESENT WORK
Presently EquipMax is a dynamic and scalable
application that maintains as well as monitors the
records of all resources and utilities in every global
TCS office. Historic data combined with business
intelligence is used to determine the viability of
the particular resource or equipment to the
organization and if needed be replaced by
alternatives. In case of equipment failure
automated reports are generated by the software to
the respective authorities regarding a need to
replace or maintain the same. EquipMax is being
made into a cloud based application with all of its
data available over the air. EquipMax is based on
freeware such as Struts for the front-end and
Hibernate for the back-end support. In its current
form EquipMax is able to monitor the economic
efficacy of the resources to determine their
viability of use from a cost cutting sense of view.
5. CONCLUSION
In this article we went through the definition and
characteristics of a typical ERP software. After
that we introduced the concept of the proposed
EquipMax, its application and its defining features.
Following this we took the liberty of comparing
the proposed EquipMax with any traditional ERP
software say, SAP. Over here we are justly able to
highlight SAP’s shortcomings as an ERP solution
and as to how EquipMax helps in overcoming
these shortcomings. We are able to showcase the
potential of a software such as EquipMax because
of its strong concepts and some modifications
making it a potential candidate for a top ERP
solutions software. After this we had made
mention of the current state of EquipMax and its
ability to meet the demands of entire enterprises
because of its scalable architecture and cloud
based support.
Traditional ERP based software go about all the
phases of the software development life cycle like
arbitration, planning, resource gathering,
designing, production, testing, maintenance, sales
and delivery. They require software developers to
have clear cut ideas about the software and the
stages it has to go through before-hand. While this
is a very systematic approach it does not account
for any changes in the business environment or
expectations from the product. An application such
as EquipMax using statistics acquired from other
previous, simultaneously run software using
different processes in different environments
would help in determining the comparative work
efficiency output of the developing software.
In the future we shall see an even greater amount
of automation in the way product development is
handled in enterprises with more and more critical
decisions being taken by the computing systems
themselves based on certain parameters and the
comparison of their values. This amount of
automation would add artificial intelligence to the
ERP tools and thus help bring down delays in the
decision making process. This would not only
keep production up but also help in cutting costs
thus ensuring maximum profitability.
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank Mr. Anand Khandare -
professor at Thakur College of Engineering and
Technology for guiding us and for reviewing our
paper. We would also like to thank all the
MULTICON reviewers for their valuable inputs in
regards to this paper.
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