How do you know your truck or construction machine is due for service?
Scheduled maintenance of vehicles is important for any business that relies on
the performance of its vehicles. Transport and logistics companies must
meticulously plan their fleet’s maintenance schedule to avoid vehicle
failures,delays extra costs and fines. In the past, this was done by manually
tracking service dates, vehicle mileage, and vehicle conditions. Today, things
are a little different. With the help of telematics, companies are now able to
receive automated reminders with customised thresholds for a seamless
maintenance program.
How this works is that the telematics device attached to each vehicle
collects vehicle data, such as mileage and operating hours, and sends this
information to the ENAiKOON servers. ENAiKOON limit-checker then receives this
data and compares actual mileage and actual operating hours of each vehicle
with predefined thresholds and sends out alerts in case of upcoming or overdue
maintenance measures to the responsible persons.
This way, scheduling upcoming maintenance for each vehicle and detecting
overdue maintenance is automated, resulting in increased productivity and
reliable vehicle performance. Tobias Strahl, the operations manager of KAMAG,
shares his story on how telematics increased their business efficiency.
Mr. Strahl is the operations manager for KAMAG Transporttechnik GmbH &
Co. KG, a transport company in Ulm, Germany, that has been offering transport
and logistics services for over 40 years. In addition to their logistics
services, they also offer full-service solutions that include maintenance and
repairs of their clients’ vehicles. For this reason, having an accurate and
automated maintenance schedule is critical to KAMAG’s business.
Known for their use of cutting-edge technology, it was a breeze for KAMAG to
adopt a new telematics system. Once they learned of the ENAiKOON fleet
management solution, they installed the
locate-04 GPS tracking device on all of their vehicles. Access to
the ENAiKOON web portal,
inViu
pro, allowed Mr. Strahl and his team to view the location data for their
entire fleet. When the
limit-checker plugin became available, KAMAG did not hesitate to
add it to their system as it made it possible to set customised alerts for
their service schedule.
“Before we found out about ENAiKOON limit-checker, we had to manually
calculate and check for upcoming general, safety, and individual vehicle
inspections,” says Mr. Strahl, regarding the time-consuming work involved in
ensuring the timely delivery of their full-service benefits. “Now we are
equipped with an advanced, multi-level alert system. We can plan every upcoming
inspection and routine maintenance included in our full-service plan,
determined by the date, operating hours, or distance travelled.”
Mr. Strahl is now able to promptly send out their maintenance crew, already
informed of their task with an action plan. The ENAiKOON system and its
software have helped the company increase the availability and quality of their
fleet, gaining trust and loyalty from their customers. To learn more on how to
improve your fleet’s vehicle maintenance, contact ENAiKOON at
sales@enaikoon.com.
You may be asking yourself: “how is this helpful? Couldn’t you just text
message the employees?” Well, aside from the fact that you are saving tons of
money by using smartphones for GPS tracking instead of a costly system that
requires a tracking device and a navigation system, it also opens the
possibility of applying GPS tracking to all types of mobile workers – not just
vehicle drivers. Let’s not forget that it also serves as a complete task,
logistics, and employee management system, with backlogs and audit trails that
can be exported from inViu pro, ENAiKOON’s telematics web portal. If you
weren’t convinced that this is the perfect business app before, you will be now
with the integrated communication system made available with the messenger
plugin. Here are some of the features and benefits:
Easy communication and task management
This is the most important feature for managers. Tracking the internal
communication and task delegation is key to controlling the workflow and
minimising errors within a company’s operations. With inViu routes messenger,
all of your staff communication and tasks will be logged in inViu pro. Having
an overview of all tasks and employee locations eases the dispatching
process.
Clear job acceptance and verification process
Employees can easily accept tasks and respond quickly using predefined,
editable status texts without leaving the app. This process is streamlined so
that drivers can safely and easily communicate with the dispatcher.
