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Fitness Equipment Software – New Innovation Helps Fitness Clubs Maintain Equipment |
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November 20, 2003 By: Randy Smith Fitness Equipment Software – New Innovation Helps Fitness Clubs Maintain Equipment
Precor is teaming with top fitness club chains to refine InSite™, a service breakthrough utilizing wireless technology to provide club management with information to better run their business. For more than 20 years, Precor has been a fitness equipment innovator. For the first time, Precor has developed a service specifically to help club or facility managers address one of their greatest business challenges: managing fitness equipment operations, said Precor president Paul J. Byrne. Executives from top club chains participating in InSite implementation projects say they expect to gain dramatic new efficiencies through the new service. Gene LaMott, CEO and president of Gold’s Gym, said InSite offers new possibilities to aggregate data across a national network. Multi-location operations face a challenge in gathering and analyzing data and information on a system-wide basis. With the ability to capture and aggregate accurate, real-time data on an individual club or system-wide basis, InSite represents the next generation in club management tools, said LaMott. Larry Dakof, assistant vice president, purchasing for Bally Total Fitness, said he sees tremendous new capabilities to reduce down time, increase cost savings and improve the customer experience. InSite opens the way for smarter strategic decisions on everything from equipment usage and placement within a club to structuring future equipment purchases, said Dakof. Micheal Feeney, vice president of facilities management and purchasing for 24-Hour Fitness, said InSite offers special values to multi-location organizations. Long-term, this is exactly what we need – the ability to manage fixed assets and purchasing on a large level, said Feeney. This type of information can be irreplaceable in terms of serviceability, but can be absolutely invaluable if all it does is provide true, hard facts to evaluate purchasing decisions based on national usage data. Precor and involved clubs aren’t disclosing system hardware or software specifics beyond explaining that InSite "reads" fitness machine repair, service and usage information, and wirelessly transmits real-time data to a computer that can be accessed from anywhere. The result is better, faster data that managers can apply to make smarter decisions, added Precor’s Byrne. Byrne said Precor expects to launch InSite for large, multi-location Precor customers in 2004, with plans to expand the service offering to smaller club or facility operations. InSite automated alerts inform club management or service resources to maintenance or repair issues, providing information with greater speed, accuracy and diagnostic detail than ever before. Facility staff can also manually enter repair alerts or comments. Also, preventive maintenance schedules can be entered into the system to send alerts when a machine reaches a specific usage level prior to regularly scheduled maintenance. Also see; elliptical trainers.About
The Author:
Randy Smith is a successful author and regular contributor to http://www.elliptical-trainers-n-machines.com.
Researched articles on exercise equipment, bikes, ellipticals and home fitness machines. |
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