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AMC Athena
Gen-AI powered field service

Every technician.
Every route. Every asset.

Athena Field Service Management is a comprehensive digital software solution for engineering, service and maintenance industries. Field work orders, materials, time and GPS tracking on a mobile application; routes scheduled with navigation guidance; van inventory under control; invoices raised and payments collected on site — in one system.

Engineering, service & maintenancePM + reactive maintenanceSovereign & on-premise

6 integrated modules · Request to cash · One system of record

athena.fsm / dispatch-boardLive

96.2%

SLA attainment

▲ 4.8 pts QTD

91%

First-time fix

▲ 7 pts YTD

38m

Avg. response

▼ 21 m vs plan

12345Stop 5 · SLA at risk
CompletedPlanned routeSLA at risk — agent flagged

Agent activity stream

  1. AGENT

    SLA Guardian predicted stop 5 breach in 42 min; re-sequenced the route.

  2. AGENT

    Van Stock reserved 2 of 3 required parts on van 14 for WO-8841.

  3. AGENT

    Parts & Van detected 3 consumables below reorder point; replenishment raised.

  4. READY

    Maintenance auto-generated the Q3 PM plan for 412 assets.

Integrated modules from service request to cash
6Integrated modules from service request to cash
Paper in the van, the depot or the technician's pocket
~0%Paper in the van, the depot or the technician's pocket
System of record for contract, field work and asset history
1System of record for contract, field work and asset history
SLA monitoring, dispatch and maintenance, always on
24/7SLA monitoring, dispatch and maintenance, always on

Overview

The whole business process of a field service operation — in one place

Athena Field Service connects the contract, the plan, the van, the invoice and the asset history on a single record. The office and the field stop being two businesses that reconcile at month end.

  • Mobile in the field, integrated in the office

    Engineers book time, record materials and raise invoices on the same device the dispatcher plans on.

  • Revenue collected on site

    Cash, credit or coupon settlement happens at the customer's door, not a month later in the ledger.

  • General ledger from source transactions

    Accounting entries are generated from the work order itself, so the ledger is a consequence of the work rather than a separate project.

  • Product history & traceability

    Serial, warranty and entitlement history travels with the asset from commissioning to disposal.

Request to cash

How a service call becomes an invoiced, recorded, repeatable job

1Service requestCRM creates and assigns the request after a customer callSERVICEMENTracking2Plan & scheduleRoute planned with navigation guidance, skills & entitlement checkedMOBILE APPField Service3Dispatch & routeWork order issued, van loaded, technician tracked by GPSMODULE 04Field Service4Execute on siteWork order, materials, time, QR tool issue, customer signatureMOBILE APPField work order5Invoice & collectHandheld invoice, cash sales and credit payments on siteMODULE 03Customer Invoicing6Analyse & maintainContract revenue & profit, SLA, PM plan, asset historyMODULES 01·06Reports & BudgetsASSET HISTORY FEEDS THE NEXT VISIT
Because every stage writes to the same record, the hours, parts and signature captured on site are simultaneously the cost, the revenue and the maintenance history of the asset.

The problem

Five ways a field service operation loses its margin

None of these appear in the weekly report, because the report is assembled after the fact from data nobody captured at the time.

01

Whiteboard

Dispatch lives on a whiteboard

Who is going where is decided in a corridor, not in a system. Unplanned travel and idle time are invisible until the month-end margin line moves.

Unplanned travel & idle time

02

Paper job sheet

Work happens, the record does not

The engineer completes the work and writes it on a sheet that reaches the depot in a week, if at all. Billing follows the paperwork, so it always lags.

Days of billing lag

03

Van stock

The van is a second warehouse

Parts live in vehicles, in the depot and in a storeroom with three different counts. Nobody can answer what is on the van until the engineer is already there.

Repeat trips, no traceability

04

Reactive only

Everything is reactive

Without a preventive plan, the schedule is a queue of breakdowns. Planned work never displaces urgent work, so the cost is never controlled.

Unplanned downtime

Modules

6 integrated modules. One connected workflow.

Every module below posts to the same data model, and each carries agents that act on it.

01Entitlement & Warranty

Contract Management

  • Define contracts
  • Contract revenue and profits
  • Entitlement & SLA terms
02Dispatch Optimiser

Project Management

  • Projects with WBS
  • Estimated materials & resources
  • Dependencies, float & duration
03Service Analytics

Customer Invoicing

  • Customer invoices from milestones
  • Manual & automated
  • Cash sales & credit payments
04SLA Guardian & Van Stock

Field Service

  • Field work orders
  • Materials, time, GPS tracking
  • Van inventory & tool control
05Cost & Margin

Budgets & Costs

  • Track budgets & cost
  • Cost per work order
  • Margin by contract & customer
06Service Analytics

Reports

  • Customizable reports
  • Contract revenue & profits
  • SLA, cost and productivity
“Aftersales support and field service ensures customer goodwill.”
The Athena Field Service principleThe depot, the van, the engineer’s phone and the general ledger are four views of one record — not four systems that have to be reconciled.

Key features

Capabilities that make the operation actually work

01

Mobile Application Field Service

Routes scheduled with navigation guidance. Van inventory managed on the same device. The service team managed from the same screen.

02

Invoicing & Billing

Invoice raised at the point of service. Cash sale or credit payment in one flow. Printed receipt on a handheld device.

03

Supply Chain Management

Procurement, inventory, sales and distribution. Required accounting entries are created automatically, with reports built for operational efficiency.

04

Integrated Systems

Contract to field work order traceability. Customer, asset and site master data shared. Quality management system inbuilt.

05

Finance and Accounting

GL entries generated from source transactions. Cash and credit settlement handled in the field. Costing and estimation automated.

06

Servicemen Tracking

GPS tracking on every field work order. The CRM creates and assigns service requests. Engineer skills are matched to the job.

Van stock, visible before the engineer leaves

Van 14 · consumed against work order WO-8841

  • Compressor pump seal kit2 / 2
  • Servo drive board1 / 1
  • Torque wrench 40–200 Nm · cal. due1 / 1
  • Drive belt set0 / 2
  • Filter cartridge1 / 4
Two shortages detected before departure — the agent reserved what the depot held and raised a replenishment for the rest, so the job is not abandoned mid-visit.

Technician utilisation & travel

On-site time vs. travel, per engineer, this week

02040hEng. 01Eng. 02Eng. 03Eng. 04Eng. 05Eng. 06

total on-site utilisation of 71 percent

On-site productiveTravel & non-productive

Agentic AI

From a dispatch board to autonomous service operations

Sovereign by design — the agentic layer runs inside your own deployment (on-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud), against your own operational data, under your own permission model. Your records never leave your jurisdiction.

The field service agent loop

Every Athena service agent runs this cycle continuously against live operational data — never once, always on

ATHENA FIELDSERVICE AGENTFABRIC6 goal-driven agentsalways-on · auditableSENSEwatch the operationREASONfind the causePLANfix it fast & cheapACTrun the workflowLIVE SERVICE INPUTSService requestsField work ordersTechnician GPSVan stock levelsContract & SLA termsAsset failure historyTime & signaturesParts consumptionWarranty & entitlementPM due & calibrationsEXECUTED OUTCOMESRoute re-sequencedWork order reassignedParts reserved on vanReplenishment raisedSLA breach escalatedPM plan regeneratedQuote priced on siteInvoice raised on siteCustomer re-notifiedOps brief writtenWHY IT IS DIFFERENTMost FSM tools add a dashboard. Athena adds agentsthat write back into dispatch, van, PM and billing flows.HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOPEvery action is permissioned, logged and reversible.No agent raises an invoice or dispatches alone.CLOSE THE LOOP
01 SenseWatch every request, work order, van, route and asset for SLA risk, stockouts and repeat failure.
02 ReasonTrace the problem to its driver — parts, skill, route, entitlement, workmanship or asset age.
03 PlanChoose the fastest compliant fix: re-sequence, re-part, re-quote, re-schedule the preventive visit.
04 ActRe-plan routes, assign work orders, reserve van parts, raise invoices, notify customers — then learn.
Sovereign by design — the agentic layer runs inside your own deployment (on-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud), against your own service data, with your own permission model. Customer sites, engineer movements and contract values never leave your jurisdiction.

The agent roster

Six agents, six modules, one depot that never sleeps

SLA Guardian

Response & Breach

Reads SLA terms, open work orders, technician location, traffic

Reasons Time remaining versus realistic travel, skill and parts

Acts Re-sequences the route, escalates, re-notifies the customer

Autonomy80%

Van Stock

Parts & Consumables

Reads Van stock, depot stock, BOM, consumption history, open jobs

Reasons What today’s routes need, and what will be short before Friday

Acts Reserves parts, raises replenishment, re-assigns a van to a job

Autonomy85%

Maintenance

Preventive Plan

Reads Asset register, PM rules, calibrations, failure history, usage

Reasons Which assets will fail next, and which are worth pre-empting

Acts Autogenerates the PM plan, books visits, raises reorder for wear parts

Autonomy70%

First-Time Fix

Repeat Failure Analysis

Reads Work order history, fault codes, parts replaced, repeat visits

Reasons Systemic vs one-off; misdiagnosed vs under-repaired; engineer skill gap

Acts Re-opens, schedules a confirmed fix, flags a training need or a part recall

Autonomy60%

Entitlement

Warranty & Billing Guard

Reads Contract terms, warranty window, asset serial, prior visits

Reasons In or out of warranty, billable or not, what the rate should be

Acts Flags before dispatch, prices the work, raises the invoice on site

Autonomy75%

Service Analytics

Cost, Margin & Briefing

Reads Work orders, cost, invoices, utilisation, SLA, CSAT

Reasons Margin by contract, leakage by fault code, capacity gaps by region

Acts Writes the ops brief, sets KPIs, flags contracts for renegotiation

Autonomy65%

The same service call, handled the same way — before and after

Manual process

  1. Customer calls; a coordinator writes the job on a whiteboard and calls around for an engineer
  2. No route planning — travel is decided job by job, and traffic is discovered on the way
  3. Engineer arrives, finds the part is not on the van, returns to the depot mid-visit
  4. Job sheet completed in the evening, typed into the office system days later
  5. Repeat faults appear in the monthly report; the same asset is visited three times
  6. Preventive maintenance is planned in a spreadsheet nobody in the depot can see
  7. Cycle: 3–14 days between a service problem and the invoice reaching head office

Athena + service agents

  1. CRM raises the request and the dispatch board assigns the best-matched engineer immediately
  2. Dispatch Optimiser plans travel routes with navigation guidance against live traffic
  3. Van Stock agent reserves the required parts on the assigned van before departure
  4. Work order, time, GPS, materials and customer signature captured on the phone, on site
  5. Repeat-failure agent flags the third visit on the same fault and books a confirmed fix
  6. Maintenance plan autogenerated and shown on a timeline the depot actually uses
  7. Cycle: minutes — invoice raised and payment collected at the customer’s door

Agentic service analytics

Ask your service data a question. Get a governed, cited answer.

Athena pairs the field record with an agentic analytics layer that reasons across every work order, part consumption, hour, signature, van movement and invoice. Ask it in natural language and it writes the query, runs it, charts it, explains it, and cites the exact records behind the answer — so a number in a board pack is always traceable to its source.

Paired with LucidA — Agentic Analytics, the same capability extends across finance, supply chain and workforce, so service performance is read in the context of the whole enterprise.

  • Natural-language querying

    No report builder — ask in the language the service manager already uses.

  • Predictive maintenance

    Forecasts which assets will fail next from age, usage and fault history.

  • Margin leakage detection

    Spots unpriced work, unbilled parts and contracts quietly going negative.

  • Portfolio view

    Every contract, region and engineer ranked by exposure in one list.

Which contract is losing us money, and is it a parts problem or a workmanship problem?

Agent answered · 1.3s · 6 sources cited

  • Retail refrigeration — North zone is the worst contract: gross margin down to 6.2% from a planned 22% across 31 completed jobs.
  • 64% of the erosion is parts — the same compressor board is being replaced on average twice per asset, and the depot price rose 22% in Q2.
  • It is not workmanship: first-time-fix on this contract is 88%, above the 79% portfolio average.
  • 18 of 31 jobs involved a repeat visit within 60 days on fault code RC-114.
  • Recommended: raise a recall review on RC-114, renegotiate the board price, and pre-empt the 34 assets on the same part age band.

Agent-scored repeat-failure risk

Recurrence likelihood against service impact, re-scored from fault history and asset age

123456712345LIKELIHOODSERVICE IMPACTCOLD STORECHILLERHVAC CTRLAGENT ACTIONRC-114 re-scored CRITICAL · recall review raised · 34 at-risk assets pre-empted
LowModerateHighCritical — escalation required
The risk register is a live output, not a static matrix. Every repeat visit, every parts substitution and every asset ageing re-scores the exposure and tells you where to intervene this month.

Full action audit trail

Every agent decision records its inputs, reasoning and the action taken.

Approval gates

Named human sign-off on the action classes you designate. Configurable per workflow.

Sovereign data residency

The agentic layer runs inside your own deployment, against your own data.

Adjustable autonomy

Advise-only, then draft, then autonomous — you change it without redeploying.

Analytics

Measure the operation, not the effort

Eight numbers that tell you whether the service business is actually working. All configurable against your own KPIs.

Service performance scorecard

Configurable across the service portfolio — depot review, contract review or client reporting

  • SLA attainment (response & fix)96%
  • First-time fix rate91%
  • Work orders closed within 24 h87%
  • On-site time vs. travel71%
  • Jobs closed first visit with parts on van94%
  • Invoices collected on site68%
  • Preventive completed on schedule93%
  • Repeat visit within 60 days11%
Indicative data shown for illustration. Every indicator is configurable, and an agent flags any KPI that drifts beyond the threshold you define.

Invoice mix

Cash vs credit, on site

4,180INVOICES
On-site 68%Credit ≤30d 21%Overdue 11%

Jobs by service type

This month

0150300450Reactive412PM286Install148Callout96Inspect74

Response time trend

Median minutes, by week

W1W5W9W12
64 → 38 min after route planning and van stock reservation went live.

Contract margin

Live, by contract

74%ABOVE TARGET
Above 74%At target 19%Below 7%

Maintenance

After-sales support and field service ensures customer goodwill

The same asset record that drives reactive dispatch also carries the preventive programme, so maintenance stops being whatever is left over.

Reliability Management

Failure-mode driven planning against real usage data.

Assets

Every commissioned asset, its serial, warranty and location.

Tool Control

Issue, return and locate the tools the job actually needs.

Activities

Repeatable task templates with standard durations.

Calibrations

Calibration intervals tracked and forecast.

Work Orders

Raised automatically from the PM plan or reactively.

Autogenerated maintenance plan

The maintenance plan is autogenerated and presented in a timeline chart, so planned work competes for route capacity before the year is committed

Q1Q2Q3Q4Chiller plantCold storeHVAC controlsFleet / vehiclesFire & safetytodayREACTIVEAgent pre-empted 12 assets
Chiller plantCold storeHVAC controlsFleet & vehiclesFire & safetyReactive call-out
Planned work is a live capacity commitment, not a spreadsheet nobody in the depot can see. When a reactive failure overran a preventive window, the agent pre-empted the twelve most exposed assets on the same age band before the failure cascaded.

Where it applies

Built for aftersales service of products

Wherever there is installed equipment, a service obligation and a customer who expects an engineer to turn up.

Engineering & FacilitiesAutomotive AftersalesOil & GasAircraft MROHealthcare & MedicalUtilities & WaterTelecomsManufacturing

Implementation

Live in weeks, not quarters

A pilot in six to ten weeks, then scale by site, function and route.

1Week 1–2

Discover

Contracts, SLAs, service lines and the current dispatch reality.

2Week 3–4

Configure

Module scope, contract structures, workflows and KPI baselines.

3Week 5–6

Mobilise

Data migration, devices, van setup and team training.

4Week 7–8

Pilot

One depot or one contract family, running live.

5Week 9+

Scale

Extend by depot, region and contract portfolio.

Any phone, any site

Android handset, tablet or desktop — the field app works the same.

Live cost, not month-end

Cost per work order is visible while the job is still open.

Sovereign & secure

On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud in your region.

Outcomes

What changes in the first service year

↑ 40%

On-site productive time

↓ 85%

Time to invoice

↑ 2×

Preventive vs. reactive mix

Indicative outcomes from typical deployments. Actual results depend on scope, data quality and process maturity.

FAQ

Field Service Management — frequently asked questions

The questions procurement, security and engineering ask before the first call.

What is field service management software?

Field service management software is one system that runs the field part of a business: the work order, the engineer, the parts on the van, the time spent, the customer signature and the invoice. Because those things are recorded as they happen rather than reconstructed afterwards, you can see the true cost and margin of every job, tell a customer when an engineer will arrive, and bill on the spot.

Which modules does Athena Field Service Management include?

Six integrated modules: Contract Management (contracts, revenue, profit, entitlement and SLA terms), Project Management (projects with WBS, estimated materials and resources, dependencies and duration), Customer Invoicing (milestone or on-completion invoices, cash and credit settlement), Field Service (work orders, materials, time, GPS, van inventory and tool control), Budgets and Costs (budget and cost tracking, cost per work order, margin by contract and customer) and Reports (configurable reporting on revenue, profit, SLA, cost and productivity).

What does the mobile field service application do?

It gives the engineer the day's route with navigation guidance, the job history for the asset, the parts list and the drawings; lets them book time and record materials by barcode; captures the signature; and lets them raise and settle the invoice from the same device. It works offline and syncs when coverage returns, which matters because routes routinely pass through dead zones.

How does field service invoicing and payment collection work?

The invoice can be raised at the point of service from the completed work order, settled as a cash sale or a credit payment, and printed as a receipt on a handheld device. Because the invoice is generated from source transactions, the matching accounting entries are created automatically rather than being keyed in later.

How are service technicians tracked and routes planned?

Every field work order carries a GPS track, and engineers are assigned against skills, location and current workload. The CRM creates and assigns service requests, and route planning takes into account travel time so the schedule reflects the journey and not just the job duration.

Can Athena handle preventive and reactive maintenance?

Yes. Reactive work is raised as a call-out; preventive work is generated automatically from usage data, fault history and manufacturer intervals, and it is planned against the same asset records. That matters because planned work that is never scheduled simply displaces emergency work rather than reducing it.

How is van inventory and tool control managed?

The van is a controlled stocking location in the same system as the depot. Availability against the scheduled job BOM is visible before the engineer leaves, tools are issued and returned against the work order, and calibration due dates are tracked, so a first-visit fix is planned rather than hoped for.

How does Athena integrate field service with finance and supply chain?

Field Service is one of six modules on a single data model, so a purchase order raised from a shortfall flows into purchasing and accounts payable, an approved call-out posts to the contract, and time booked reaches costing. There is no parallel reporting and no re-keying between the field, the depot and the finance department.

How does agentic AI automate field service operations?

Athena deploys goal-driven agents running a continuous sense–reason–plan–act–learn loop over live field data. They sense changes in SLA status, van stock and usage; reason about which jobs will breach and which parts will be short; plan the cheapest correction; and act by reassigning engineers, raising transfers, building PM plans and pre-coding invoices. Every action is permissioned, logged and reversible, and you decide which actions run autonomously.

Which industries is Athena Field Service Management built for?

Engineering and facilities, automotive aftersales, oil and gas, aircraft MRO, healthcare and medical equipment, utilities and water, telecoms and manufacturing. The common requirement is installed equipment with a service obligation, where a customer expects an engineer to arrive and where the margin depends on controlling travel, parts and time.

Can Athena Field Service Management be deployed on-premise?

Yes. Athena is architected as a sovereign platform and can be deployed on-premise, in a private cloud, or in a sovereign cloud region. That matters because contract values, engineer movements and customer site data are commercially sensitive, and the mobile applications and the agentic layer run inside the same deployment under your own permission model.

Live demo

See field service management run on Athena

We will configure a working scenario around an operation like yours, switch the agentic layer on live, and let you judge it against real work rather than a slide.

A working demo, not a slideshow

Configured around a scenario like yours.

Sovereign deployment options

On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud.

Phased rollout

Pilot first, then scale by site and function.

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