Spear 2000 Selected for MBTA.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1999-- Spear Technologies, Inc. announced today, that Spear 2000(TM) will be used on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1] formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater (MBTA MBTA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority MBTA Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 MBTA Model-Based Tracking Algorithm ) commuter rail fleet for all its maintenance and materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, needs. All mechanical services for the MBTA commuter rail The MBTA Commuter Rail is the Regional rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The line's characteristic purple-trimmed coaches run as far south as Providence, Rhode Island, as far north as Newburyport, and as far west as Worcester. fleet will be transferred on March 1, 2000, to Bay State Transit Services (BSTS BSTS Better Safe Than Sorry BSTS Backside Tailslide (skateboarding) BSTS British Society for the Turin Shroud BSTS Battle Staff Training System BSTS Base Shop Test Station BSTS Brumman Satellite BSTS Battalion Staff Training System ), a Boise Locomotive and Herzog Transit Services, Inc. joint venture company. BSTS won the contract in a competitive procurement earlier this year. BSTS selected Spear 2000 to support the maintenance of more than 480 rail vehicles Rail vehicles are vehicles capable of rolling on rail tracks. This includes:
fixed assets npl → immobilisations fpl fixed assets fix npl → such as facilities. Spear 2000 is a single software package supporting all the maintenance and materials management needs for today's transit operations. "We considered other software to support maintenance and materials management for this important customer (MBTA)," said Mark Warner, VP Operations & Maintenance for Boise Locomotive. "Upon final review, we selected Spear Technologies because of their proven software, technology, and configuration." Warner went on to say, "We have an extremely aggressive implementation schedule and after reviewing the track record of Spear Technologies, we have confidence that they can deliver on time." Michael Thomas, Chairman of Spear Technologies, commenting on the project said, "We are extremely pleased that Spear 2000 will support this important project for BSTS. Spear 2000 is licensed to transit operators responsible for maintaining over 150,000 rail and bus vehicles. "Until now, MBTA has been an important property missing from the Spear 2000 family of transit operators. We are delighted that they have joined the growing number of transit operators throughout the US and Europe, maintaining their transit fleets, linear assets, and facilities with Spear software." Spear Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of computerized maintenance management system Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is also known as Enterprise Asset Management. A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. software for the transportation industry. Thousands of users, licensed for Spear 2000, the company's leading product, maintain more than 150,000 transit vehicles around the world. Spear Technologies serves customers from locations throughout the U.S. and Europe and through authorized international distributors. |
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