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Equipment repair
An equipment workshop repairs machines and devices on its benches and bays, with the same job cards, checks and parts desk as a garage.
An equipment workshop repairs machines, generators, tools and other equipment that customers bring in. Kila runs it as a workshop: each machine is a job on the job board, worked on a bench or bay.
What is special
Link to this section: What is specialKila gives an equipment workshop a Workshop menu section with Machines and devices and Bays and lifts (“Which job is on which bay.”) besides the job board and the workshop’s other pages. Its set-up list adds Bays and benches, and its home page has the Bays and benches card and Parts on order and sublet work. A Workshop controller assigns the jobs and the bays.
There is no demo equipment workshop: the closest are the garage, IA Motors, for bays, and FixPoint Repairs for devices.
How Kila sets it up
Link to this section: How Kila sets it upThe main screen is Job board.
Rules it follows:
None. Kila's standard rules apply.
Its words:
| Most businesses | Equipment repair |
|---|---|
| product | part |
| sale | job |
| receipt | job receipt |
| staff | technician |
Its set-up steps
Link to this section: Its set-up steps- Business details and KRA PIN
- Branch and workshop
- Services and prices
- Labour rates and operations
- Parts and materials
- Technicians
- Bays and benches
- M-Pesa till or paybill
- First job
Its home page
Link to this section: Its home page- The workshop today
- The front counter today
- My jobs
- Waiting for the quality check
- The parts desk
- Jobs by stage
- Work in progress by age
- Jobs overdue against promised date
- Technician workload
- Bays and benches
- Ready for collection and unpaid
- Items not collected
- Parts to order
- Parts on order and sublet work
- Labour and parts sales this month
- Follow-up calls due
- Payments waiting for confirmation
- Approvals and reviews waiting
- Licences, permits and returns due
- Services due and reminders
Roles it starts with
Link to this section: Roles it starts with- Service advisor: Checks customers’ work in, writes estimates, gets approval, and hands over and takes payment at collection. No assigning.
- Parts clerk: Keeps parts: receives, issues to jobs, orders parts for jobs, counts and sells over the parts counter. Adjustments go to approval.
- Workshop controller: Runs the workshop floor: assigns jobs and bays, clocks technician, checks quality and road tests. No money or prices beyond the estimate.
- Quality controller: Checks finished work against the job card and passes or fails it before the customer is told it is ready. Works on no job of their own.
Where to go next
Link to this section: Where to go next- Jobs and repair: everything a workshop needs.
- Garage & auto repair: bays and lifts on the demo garage.