BIOGRAPHY
Over the past thirty years, I have gained a vast knowledge of machinery, logistics, and a wide variety of operations. From providing assistance in rectifying design faults, to the design, patenting, production, and manufacturing of equipment. I have taken my knowledge and experience with machinery and incorporated it into a satellite tracking program. Having owned and operated a plant hire business for sixteen years, I saw the necessity to gain better control of my equipment and vehicles. This inspired me to customize tracking systems for my clients and provide meaningful data analysis for their operations.
In a tough economic climate, I have found that it is vital to identify unnoticed losses creep into businesses. The primary one is unscheduled trips. Very often plant managers do not see the necessity of controlling these trips, these are hidden costs that only surface in budget meetings but still cannot be accounted for. Fuel usage, wear and tear, wage loss and loss of productivity can put huge pressure on a business. From my experience, I often find, one unscheduled trip leads into a secondary trip, hence doubling the loss. These are only but a few points in the whole equation, the latent losses are the ones that eventually sink a business.
Very often, one will overlook the cost of using the wrong machine for the wrong job. It is most important to balance one’s fleet from the start. Buying the right equipment can determine the profitability of one’s business. Unfortunately, human nature allows habits to be formed, unknowingly these habits eat away at the profit margins. I cannot emphasize this enough, use the right machine for the job. By balancing the fleet, one may find that fleet size may be reduced or productivity increased by running a smaller or larger machine depending on the application. I developed a program to assist my clientele in balancing their fleets. Balancing the fleet is an extremely important aspect of any business that runs any type of vehicle or equipment.
By having exact knowledge of where and what your machines are doing, one can now manage staff in a more productive manner and minimize operating costs. It is imperative to set up the correct platforms and adhere to the information you now have at hand, as a management tool. The whole exercise is pointless, should you not use this information to reduce costs and increase productivity.