subject: Understanding Remote Diagnostics [print this page] Normally, product support requires you to send an engineer to the customers place for servicing the product. The engineer tries to diagnose the problem on the site and then carry out repair. A remote diagnostics software can handle the eliminate the need for the engineer to travel
Remote Diagnostics is any system that has the ability to diagnose a problem or defect from a distance. The ability to diagnose and resolve issues remotely can play a crucial role in automating processes and simplifying time-consuming tasks.
The automation of diagnostics process means that your engineers use their time constructively to perform complex analysis and not routine data collection. When a system is monitored remotely, the maintenance cost due to unforeseen problems is reduced.
The benefits of using remote diagnostics software are:
1.The time required for diagnosis and resolution of a problem is greatly reduced because the collection and analysis of data is done remotely.
2.You can program the software to collect information from multiple sites and other data centers.
3.You can run the diagnostics software whenever you wish or program it for data collection at specified hours.
4.The software have in-built report systems using which, it becomes very easy to spot trends and thus, locate problematic points.
5.Remote diagnostics software has applications in several fields such as Medical, Computer systems, Automobile, Airplanes, Space and others.
A good remote diagnostics server should be able to scale up and scale down to accommodate the varying number of clients. Users of a remote diagnostic server are able to upload data over the Internet (high speed is required). The diagnostic results and procedures are maintained in the server for analysis at a later stage.
The remote diagnostics approach can be seamlessly integrated with computer maintenance management and logistic database.
