# Equipment Management Systems Series: Overview

International Road Federation Video VH-382A Equipment Management Systems Series: Overview Visit the International Road Federation at http://www.irfnews.org/ - Noncommercial Use Only - Published with Permission - This first program in a 6-part series introduces the goal of equipment management systems: to provide the right equipment at the right time and place at the lowest cost, reducing downtime and increasing utilization. EMS subsystems are briefly described: inventory planning and control, equipment maintenance, parts and supplies management, and financial management. Guidelines for EMS implementation and roles of agency managers are outlined.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1996
- By: International Road Federation
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.fhwa.ttp.vh-382a)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.