North Shore Automation Support Policies

Service Scope

• Telephone support

• Email support

• Planned or emergency remote assistance using remote access (extra costs apply)

• Planned or emergency onsite assistance (extra costs apply)

• Service Availability

Hours of Availability

Telephone and Email support

• Between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM Pacific Time

  • Earlier hours may be available for EST clients on certain products & solutions

• Monday - Friday, not including national holidays

• Calls and emails received outside these times will be answered by a recording, and will be returned on the next business day

Remote assistance

• Between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM Pacific Time

  • Earlier hours may be available for EST clients on certain products & solutions

• Monday - Friday, not including national holidays

Onsite assistance

• • No longer available from North Shore

Response Times

• High priority: within 1 business day

• Medium priority: within 2 business days

• Low priority: within 5 business days

Maintenance/Upgrades

• North Shore will provide system and software updates or upgrades upon request

  • This includes Akomi, CatDV, operating systems, and certain 3rd party applications currently under North Shore support contracts

• In the case of a contract not being in place services will be billed against pre-purchased support time

• North Shore is not responsible for any problems that arise subsequent to system and software updates or upgrades performed without North Shore’s prior written acknowledgement