Downtime
The machine went down on Tuesday.
The sheet says it is available. Dispatch sends a crew to a site with nothing to run.
Your fleet already knows. It just tells the wrong people.
Hours, location and service history live in the machines. They reach you as texts, and end up in a spreadsheet somebody retypes by hand.
TwoWhat the spreadsheet does not know
A sheet is a photograph of a morning that already ended.
It was true when someone typed it. Every hour after that, it drifts.
Location
It is not on the job it is billed to.
Two yards over, idle, since the pour finished. Nobody moved the row.
Service
The 250-hour came and went.
The meter passed it eleven days ago. The reminder was a sticky note on a monitor.
Planning
Monday gets promised twice.
Two supers, one excavator, one sheet neither of them was reading at the same time.
Every one of these is already known by the equipment. None of it reaches the sheet on its own.
So stop typing it.
Let the machines write the row.
FourNobody touches a key
The telematics fills the sheet.
| Equipment | Engine hours | Location | PM due |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 336 Excavator | 4,182 h | Riverside | 18 h |
| Komatsu PC210 | 2,940 h | Yard 2 | 310 h |
| Bobcat S650 | 1,776 h | Oak & 12th | Overdue |
| Deere 544 Loader | 6,051 h | Riverside | 122 h |
| Volvo A30 Hauler | 8,314 h | Pit road | 64 h |
Same grid you already work in. Sort it, filter it, edit it, paste into it. The difference is that it was true before you opened it.
FiveThe same rows, on the ground
“Riverside” is not an address.
CAT 336
41°34'29.2"N 87°37'22.7"W
on the bench face
D6 Dozer
41°34'34.3"N 87°37'01.4"W
spreading overburden
930M Loader
41°34'27.0"N 87°37'51.9"W
at the stockpiles
Volvo A30
41°34'17.6"N 87°37'03.9"W
on the haul road
Komatsu PC210
41°34'06.1"N 87°37'25.2"W
laydown yard · idle 6 days
Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics
The PC210 is parked in the laydown yard, six days idle, still billed to Riverside. The sheet could not tell you that. The ground cannot hide it.
SixOne system, not three
Dispatch, fleet and planning were always the same question.
Where is it, what shape is it in, and what can I promise on Monday. Split across three tools, that question gets three answers. Held in one, it gets a schedule.
- Dispatch
- Sends against what the machine reports, not what the sheet remembers.
- Fleet
- Meters and service come off the equipment itself, on their own.
- Planning
- Monday is committed against real availability, once.
