ATA's Technology & Maintenance Council and Continental DataGraphics Launch Internet-based Maintenance Information Portal.ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Industry-Sponsored TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center FleetPortal Provides Fleets with One-Stop Online Access to Technical Information The Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC) of American Trucking Associations, (ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment ) and Continental DataGraphics have launched an Internet-based technical information site for fleet maintenance professionals, TMC announced today. TMC FleetPortal will operate under the auspices of TMC to provide a secure, easy-to-use parts and maintenance information utility customized to the needs of individual fleet subscribers. It aggregates technical literature and parts catalogs Noun 1. parts catalog - a list advertising parts for machinery along with prices parts catalogue catalogue, catalog - a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically; "it does not pretend to be a catalog of his achievements" from all of a fleet's equipment providers and gives maintenance professionals a one-stop source to quickly find all the data they need to maintain and repair their fleets. "TMC FleetPortal was designed to address the growing problem of information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. faced by fleets that operate equipment supplied by multiple manufacturers," said Carl Kirk, TMC Executive Director and Vice President of Councils for ATA. "Fleets of all sizes have told us that one of the biggest challenges they have is managing the constant inflow in·flow n. 1. The act or process of flowing in or into: an inflow of water; an inflow of information. 2. of maintenance-related information from multiple manufacturers and suppliers." Kirk said fleets currently receive information in multiple formats including paper manuals and catalogs, compact diskettes and through a variety of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and supplier web sites with different passwords and ways of finding data. "By aggregating maintenance data from all of a fleet's OEMs and suppliers into one browser-based database, TMC FleetPortal can significantly reduce the time fleet professionals spend searching for maintenance information," Kirk said. "Continental DataGraphics is very pleased to have formed this alliance with ATA's Technology & Maintenance Council," said Larry Crogg, Vice President of FleetPortal Solutions for CDG (CDMA Development Group, Costa Mesa, CA, www.cdg.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 that promotes CDMA wireless systems worldwide. It is involved with developing new features and services and promoting standards that provide global compatibility and interoperability. . "We believe CDG's unique combination of expertise and experience in providing information management solutions to support equipment-intensive industries will allow TMC to offer the trucking industry a valuable resource to help streamline businesses processes and achieve significant operational efficiencies." Subscribers can access all data relevant to a particular vehicle or equipment unit, including parts catalogs, TMC recommended practices, service bulletins, parts information letters, repair and maintenance manuals, written diagnostic procedures and service updates, along with other internal information generated by individual fleet operators. TMC is North America's premier professional society for truck maintenance, information technology, and logistics professionals. Its membership of more than 2,200 individuals is dedicated to the improvement of equipment and support technologies, maintenance and maintenance management. TMC is a technical council of American Trucking Associations, the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations, ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Established in 1969, Continental DataGraphics (CDG) is a world leader in digital information management solutions for trucking, aviation, construction, energy and other industries. CDG transforms vast amounts of data spread across multiple legacy formats into information repositories An information repository is an easy to deploy secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured that can be customized to individual operators or scaled to meet the needs of an entire industry. CDG's offerings include document and content management solutions, digital imaging, technical authoring and illustration, engineering offload To remove work from one computer and do it on another. See cooperative processing. services, specialized applications development and systems integration, and additional alliance partner software applications. With headquarters in El Segundo, California
El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California on the Santa Monica Bay, incorporated on January 18, 1917. The population was 16,033 at the 2000 census. , CDG has production and customer service facilities in multiple U.S. locations and European support office in the United Kingdom. For more information about TMC FleetPortal, visit www.fleetportal.com. |
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