Have your equipment and vehicles worked overtime this summer? Keeping your fleet in tip-top shape can feel like a never-ending task, especially when logging extra hours or covering long distances. But what if you could work smarter, not harder, by preventing maintenance problems before they happen?
You can use telematic devices and tools like OneView's Fleet Maintenance Platform to be proactive about maintenance. This helps reduce unexpected breakdowns, lower repair costs, and extend the life of your equipment and vehicles. Let's explore different preventative maintenance practices that will keep your fleet running smoothly with less effort.
What is Preventative Maintenance?
Preventative maintenance means keeping equipment and vehicles in good shape before they break down. It involves regular checks and repairs based on usage or set schedules. Monitoring maintenance history and the health of equipment and vehicles allows fleets to spot patterns and address issues early. Software that monitors equipment and vehicle health and schedules maintenance can streamline preventative maintenance practices.
Preventative Maintenance Practices
Scheduling Maintenance Based on Real-Time Data
Telematics devices provide real-time data on engine runtime, odometer readings, and PTO hours, enabling managers to schedule maintenance based on actual vehicle usage. For example, a vehicle with many engine hours will need maintenance sooner than one with fewer hours. This makes adjusting a fleet's service schedules to fit each asset's needs easy.
Fleet managers can receive real-time alerts when they meet certain conditions, including reminders for upcoming or overdue maintenance. This way, they never miss any service tasks.
Perform Regular Inspections
Regular inspections are crucial for catching early signs of wear and tear and maintaining fleet health. With OneView, fleet managers can automate preventative maintenance scheduling and create custom maintenance checklists, including detailed inspection forms.
Automated maintenance scheduling ensures that inspections occur regularly. Scheduling inspections can help find worn-out parts, low fluid levels, and other issues. This lets fleets fix these issues before they lead to costly breakdowns.
Customizable checklists and automated scheduling help people avoid overlooking maintenance tasks. These tools make it easier to uphold high standards of vehicle and equipment care and extend the lifespan of assets.
Leveraging Machine Health Triage
OneView's Machine Health Triage acts like a virtual technician. It uses important machine health data, like diagnostic trouble codes, to find possible problems and suggest solutions. This helps fleet managers to quickly find issues, track patterns, and create better preventative maintenance and repair plans. Machine Health Triage is an excellent solution for managing larger equipment fleets.
Managing Records and Reports
The Fleet Maintenance module provides visibility to all maintenance records in one place, utilizing customizable dashboards for easy access and viewing. Fleet managers can also create detailed reports for each vehicle or piece of equipment. These dashboards and reports provide complete visibility of the health of their fleet. Providing information on maintenance status, fault code alerts, work orders, and more.
With dashboards and reporting, managers can also see the full maintenance history of their fleet. Reviewing maintenance history, like past repairs and service activities, can help managers spot patterns of recurring issues, inefficiencies, or potential equipment failures. They can make smart, data-based decisions to improve fleet performance and reduce costly downtime and unexpected repairs.
Reporting tools enable managers to forecast asset needs by reviewing service history and planning preventative maintenance practices effectively. This proactive approach makes sure that maintenance strategies use accurate data.
Smarter Fleet Management with Real-Time Insights
Using Pedigree Technologies Fleet Maintenance Platform helps fleets work smarter, not harder. Using telematics data and mobile inspection forms, they can catch problems early and keep their fleet in good shape. This approach helps to avoid sudden breakdowns, lower repair costs, and make equipment last longer.
With real-time updates, notifications, and easy-to-read reports, fleet managers can quickly make smarter, data-driven decisions that keep their fleet running smoothly and efficiently. Start working smarter today by taking a proactive approach with preventative measures and real-time insights from OneView, ensuring your fleet stays ahead of potential issues.
To learn more, contact us.