Title :
Case Study on Utilizing Mobile Applications in Industrial Field Service
Author :
Aleksy, Markus ; Stieger, Bernd ; Vollmar, Gerhard
Author_Institution :
Corp. Res. Center Germany, Ind. Software & Applic., ABB, Germany
Abstract :
Mobile solutions provide the opportunity for seamless integration of mobile field service engineers into the service processes resulting in new form of interaction between them and the dispatcher. In this paper, we describe the results of our study regarding the requirements of utilizing a mobile application in the area of industrial field service. After a brief description of the challenges these kinds of application shave to face and an overview of the utilized mobile service system architecture, we present the results of our usability study followed by a discussion.
Keywords :
mobile communication; industrial field service; mobile application; mobile field service engineer; mobile service system architecture; Application software; Business; Computer industry; Handheld computers; Mobile computing; Personal communication networks; Personnel; Portable computers; Power engineering and energy; Usability; case study; industrial field service; mobile applications; usability;
Conference_Titel :
Commerce and Enterprise Computing, 2009. CEC '09. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3755-9
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2009.21