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Service DeskThornbury Refrigeration & Air Conditioning

Sample data

Scheduling

Who is where this week, which part has to travel with them, and which report still has nobody.

38

Visits scheduled this week

26 services, 12 faults

5

Reports without an engineer

3

Visits waiting on a spare part

2

Engineers on standby this weekend

Week of 11 to 15 August

Four engineers in the field, remote sessions handled from the office.

Mon 11 Aug

  • 7:30 AM

    Service packs KV-1 and KV-2

    Hartley food market, Dyersburg · Colby

  • 11:00 AM

    ST-2402 site visit

    Greaves bakery, Lexington · Birch

  • 2:30 PM

    Commissioning of a chiller unit

    Fenwick building supply, Union City · Aydin

Tue 12 Aug

  • 8:00 AM

    Service server room air conditioning

    City of Jackson offices · Birch

  • 9:30 AM

    ST-2409 follow-up check

    City of Jackson offices · Osborne

  • 1:00 PM

    Remote session block

    Controller updates on 9 units · Osborne

Wed 13 Aug

  • 6:48 AM

    ST-2418 logged

    P1 · response due 10:48 AM

  • 9:55 AM

    ST-2418 site visit

    Hartley food market, Dyersburg · Colby

  • 2:00 PM

    Service freezer room

    Keeling meats, Brownsville · Aydin

Thu 14 Aug

  • 7:00 AM

    Parts run, northern route

    Central store Jackson · driver Pemberton

  • 9:00 AM

    ST-2418 return visit

    Fit the condenser fan · Colby

  • 11:30 AM

    Service office split unit

    Fenwick building supply, Union City · Birch

  • 3:00 PM

    Handover after refit

    Hartley food market, Savannah · Aydin

Fri 15 Aug

  • 8:00 AM

    Service cabinets, branch 3

    Hartley food market, Union City · Colby

  • 10:30 AM

    ST-2414 fit the part

    Greaves bakery, Lexington · Aydin

  • 1:00 PM

    Standby handover

    Weekend: Birch, cover Colby

Parts needed for scheduled visits

PartItemReportSourceNeeded onParts value
Condenser fan 500 mm, 230 VItem41-2207ReportST-2418SourceCentral storeNeeded on14 AugParts value$1,248.50
High-pressure switch, adjustableItem38-0114ReportST-2426SourceOn order with the makerNeeded on15 AugParts value$186.20
Freezer room door seal, 1.90 mItem52-7740ReportST-2426SourceCentral storeNeeded on15 AugParts value$94.80
Thermostatic expansion valveItem33-4501ReportST-2414SourceArrivedNeeded on15 AugParts value$342.00
Filter drier 16 mmItem21-8802ReportST-2430SourceVan stock, BirchNeeded on14 AugParts value$58.40
Controller circuit boardItem47-1190ReportST-2409SourceReplacement under warrantyNeeded on18 AugParts value$0.00

6 lines, $1,929.90 in parts altogether. Two old parts go back to the manufacturer as returns.

Reports without an engineer

Nobody assigned yet, and the response clock keeps running.

  • ST-2428 — function room ventilation dead

    Woodside Hotel, Savannah · response due 14 Aug, 8:20 AM

    Event on Saturday. Contract SV-0188 promises a 16-hour response and that deadline has passed.

    escalated

  • ST-2429 — September service booking

    Keeling meats, Brownsville · not a fault

    Wants the first week of September, ideally a Monday. Can be combined with the SV-0311 service visit.

    P4

  • ST-2427 — condensate pump dripping

    City of Jackson offices · no contract

    Time and materials. A ceiling of $380 was agreed and the facilities manager has signed off on it.

    P3

  • ST-2425 — noise from the condenser

    Hartley food market, Union City · contract SV-0142

    Nothing is down. Can be added to Friday's service if Colby stays an hour longer.

    P3

The project frame

How Awelior would approach this project

Thornbury Refrigeration & Air Conditioning is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.

Where it starts

Thornbury Refrigeration & Air Conditioning holds service contracts with committed response times. The fault line takes notes on a pad, the deployment plan hangs on a whiteboard in the office, and which deadline applies to which customer lives in a spreadsheet in the service manager's head. On a fault call at 4:40 PM that combination decides whether a penalty falls due.

Decisions

  • The deadline lives on the ticket, not in the contract

    When a fault is logged, the response time is pulled from the service contract and stays visible on the ticket. A deadline you have to look up does not get looked up under pressure.

  • A control room, not an overview page

    The entry screen is sorted by urgency, not by arrival. That is the decision against the obvious list: whoever walks in first thing does not need the newest item, but the one running out first.

  • The spare part belongs with dispatch

    An engineer without the right part drives out twice. So parts requirement and availability hang off the deployment plan rather than a separate stock list — the decision happens while assigning, not afterwards.

Deliberately left outNo route planning and no vehicle tracking. Both are tempting and drag in monitoring and data protection questions that have to be settled before the first line of code — not in a demo, but with the drivers, and where a union contract applies, with the union.

What is in it

Screens
5
Content blocks
18
Languages
4

Five screens, in all four languages, with sidebar, header and stated role. Navigation works; board, tables, calendar, history and forms are rendered and inert. Ticket numbers, customers and deadlines are invented.

How it would go on

  • How faults arrive

    Phone, email, customer portal — every report has to end up with the same number regardless of the route it came in on.

  • Engineer app

    Job acceptance, checklist, photographs and times on site. Without it the control room stays a view somebody keeps current by hand.

  • Contract and billing

    What the contract covers, what gets charged, and how the work travels from the ticket into the invoice.

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