![]() ![]() And if the maintenance system is based on hours of utilization, then the owner incurs unnecessary preventive-maintenance costs. “Adding to this is lost or wasted warranty-so many new machines use up the hour-terms of their warranties just idling and never have the chance to fail under load. “If you bill production departments internally for the hourly use of machines, idling is an unnecessary cost of epic proportion,” says Dennis. ![]() Leigh Dennis, CEM, manager, fleet services, for the North Carolina-based Sunrock Group, sees additional consequences. Burning fuel that accomplishes no work may not be the only downside of extended idling. That figure, multiplied through a sizeable fleet, can result in considerable expense. One manufacturer reports, for example, that data collected from customer machines indicate that, on average, a 36-ton excavator in North America runs about 1,000 hours per year, but is idling about 40 percent of that time, using about a gallon of fuel per hour at idle-for an annual total of some 400 gallons. In many instances, equipment managers who followed this advice have been quite taken aback by the high percentage of idling time in their fleets. As the population of machines equipped with factory-installed telematics systems has increased in recent years, equipment manufacturers have encouraged customers to use this powerful technology, often suggesting that tracking machine idling time might be a way to ease into using the data. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |