Elektro-Sivert

Internal Tool & Equipment Management at Elektro-Sivert

About Elektro-Sivert

Elektro-Sivert Installasjon AS is a well-established electrical contractor in the Oslo region, with roots back to 1990. The company is 100% employee-owned, which fosters a strong culture of accountability, craftsmanship and quality across the organisation.

With a broad service portfolio across installation, smart home, EV charging, solar energy and turnkey projects, Elektro-Sivert delivers solutions to private clients, businesses and the public sector.

As the company grew and more technicians were dispatched to job sites in parallel, it became clear that internal tool and equipment tracking needed a more efficient, scalable model.

The Challenge

Before digitalisation, tool and equipment management was handled manually. With many technicians out on assignments simultaneously, control quickly became difficult:

Where is each tool right now?
Who has it checked out?
When is it due back?

When equipment wasn’t returned on time, the result was extra follow-up calls, internal back-and-forth, and unnecessary administration. Much of the workday was spent on coordination rather than value-creating work — and the problem only grew with the company.

Elektro-Sivert needed a solution that would:

Reduce manual tracking and follow-up
Provide real-time visibility across all tools and equipment
Make planning and coordination easier for technicians in the field
Free up administrative capacity
Support a more structured, scalable operating model

The Solution: Self-Service Tool Management for Internal Teams

To eliminate manual administration and put control directly in the hands of their technicians, Elektro-Sivert implemented a fully digital, self-service tool management system powered by Sharefox.

With the new setup, technicians can:

Check real-time availability of tools and equipment
Reserve and check out items themselves
Find product information instantly
Plan and execute jobs more efficiently
Collaborate across projects without internal phone tag

For administration, the system delivers:

A live overview of where every tool is and who has it
Easy follow-up on overdue items with automated reminders
A structured, searchable record that replaces notes, spreadsheets and informal communication

By treating tools as a transparent shared resource — rather than a gatekept inventory — Elektro-Sivert removed friction from the daily workflow and freed administration from a constant stream of coordination requests.

Implementation

Sharefox was rolled out in close collaboration with the Sharefox onboarding team. Unlike a customer-facing rental store, the focus here was internal usability: a simple, intuitive flow for technicians in the field and a clean overview for administration.

Following implementation, Elektro-Sivert gained complete visibility across tools, locations and technicians within a single system. The platform now operates largely autonomously and requires minimal daily administration.

The Results

The digital transformation has delivered clear, measurable benefits.

Key results:

Significant reduction in manual administrative work
Real-time overview of tool location and ownership
Faster, more reliable follow-up on overdue returns
More efficient daily workflow for technicians
A stronger, more structured foundation for continued growth

What was once a resource-intensive coordination challenge has become a streamlined, self-managing process.

Why This Model Works for Trade & Installation Businesses

Elektro-Sivert demonstrates that the same digital infrastructure powering modern rental businesses can also be applied internally — to manage tools, equipment and shared assets across a distributed workforce.

By automating the entire tool lifecycle — from check-out to reminders and return — the operation runs efficiently without adding administrative headcount. At the same time, technicians gain the flexibility to find, reserve and manage equipment themselves, in real time, from any job site.

For service-driven companies with mobile teams, this shifts tools from being a coordination cost to being a transparent, productive asset.

Want to Modernise Internal Tool & Equipment Management?

With Sharefox, you get booking, real-time availability, automated reminders, and a complete administrative overview in one integrated system — whether you’re running customer rentals or managing internal equipment for your own teams.