10/18/2021—In industries like construction, mining, oil and gas, machinery is a keystone of operations. Machine maintenance, with a dedicated plan and assigned personnel, is essential to the lifetime of machinery and any projects at hand. Improperly maintained machines can leave you with higher budgetary costs, a greater chance for onsite injuries, and even legal litigation from site accidents. With VOS Systems’ CoRe Connected Resources and Scout asset tracking, you can simplify machine maintenance thanks to BLE-enabled devices that track machines and provide real-time visible data, helping you to optimize the lifecycle of machinery and can save on project costs.
Proper machine maintenance can save you money and increase job productivity. When machinery is unavailable, you can suffer major losses. A down event in one unit invariably impacts many associated resources, which causes the cost of downtime to be extremely high, (Vorster, 2005). Unexpected broken machinery can lead to budgetary overages, along with loss of productivity. A routine maintenance system maximizes the longevity of equipment, improving the return on investment of machinery. Proper maintenance also gives confidence to both investors and employees that machinery is safe to use, and can also protect owners from liability, should an injury occur during machine operation and lead to litigation.
The other side of machine maintenance is ensuring operators of machinery are properly trained on their respective machines. Training for heavy machinery is intensive and essential to both protecting your employee and the machine you’ve invested in. With CoRe’s innovative smart badges, you can track each employee’s training records, ensuring that any machinery they are working with is operated with the safest training applied.
VOS Systems’ takes the job of overseeing employees and machines and consolidates it into a streamlined and reliable dashboard. Scout monitors machines for usage time, movement, location, and idle time. Monitoring and decreasing idle time saves on costs, as idle machinery wastes gas and other machine costs, including unnecessary usage and burden on machinery. With BLE-enabled technology, administrators have real-time views of machinery currently being used, currently in maintenance, along with being able to determine when maintenance checkups will be needed, allowing them to save on downtime.
With CoRe smart badges and Scout asset tracking, you not only monitor the usage of machinery, but those operating the machinery. Administrators view in real-time operator behaviors and locations and can mark unauthorized zones to ensure machinery is only used in its intended area. If inconsistencies or issues are seen in operator behavior, proper training can be provided. Operators can also be confident that while working with dangerous machinery, they are being safely supervised. What you get is increased operator security, compliance to ever-evolving operational guidelines, and optimized usage of machinery.
With all the benefits tech like CoRe and Scout are bringing to heavy machinery industries, it’s easy to see why machine maintenance is an essential part of any industry in this field. Contact us today to learn how our technology can help save you time, costs and future troubles.
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