TaskMaster is a standalone equipment repair and maintenance database system running on recent versions of Windows. It can be used as a comprehensive workplace for supporting the repair and maintenance of technical equipment.

The program carries out all the traditional equipment maintenance routines, including job reporting, fault and action coding, parts stock control etc. and the various interactions between these functions.

It uses straight forward .dbf and .txt files, which are robust, well supported, easily read and readily exported to other applications.

The main menu headings include:-

- Contacts details
- Engineers data
- Engineers tasks
- Equipment inventory
- Equipment PM history
- Equipment types
- Equipment users
- Jobs records
- Parts inventory
- PM procedures
- PM scheduling
- Reports
- Saved outputs
- Service agreements


The following features may be noted:-

- 99 types in each equipment class
- 999 equipment control numbers for each equipment type
- Access to data-sets in different directories
- Allocation of default standard times to job codes
- Assignment of technicians to equipment
- Automatic adjustment of PM priority according to risk
- Automatic adjustment of PM intervals due to risk factors
- Automatic opening of PM jobs if required
- Automatic logging of equipment history events
- Automatic logging of job record events
- Automatic logging of stock parts history events
- Balancing of PM workload over a given period
- Beyond-Economic-Repair alert feature
- Captions configurable by the user
- Comprehensive parts stock control routines
- Data importing from comma-delimited files
- Data exporting facilities to various file formats
- Easy insertion of repeat stock items into job records
- Embedded hyperlinks to permit linking to web pages
- Equipment and jobs note-taking features
- Equipment control number system
- Equipment life forecasting based on ongoing costs
- Estimated dates for next eleven PM visits
- Forum post manager
- Indications of PM effectiveness
- Job records with up to ten parts used
- Levels of user access for security
- Linked help topics
- Mail manager
- More than 150 formatted reports
- Organized equipment coding system
- Organized stock numbering system
- Personal notes and diary facilities
- PM procedure builder with fifteen tasks and up to ten PM parts
- PM scheduling by equipment, group, month due, priority or user
- PM task line-items of up to sixty characters
- Pushing PM dates off weekends and holidays if required
- Quick report filters feature
- Recent browses feature
- Recent reports feature
- Records of parts stock transactions
- Records of previous twenty PM visits
- Risk-based PM scheduling scheme
- Saving of printed output to text files and a datafile
- Stock quotations details
- Timer utility
- Up to a hundred risk elements in up to ten risk headings