Equipment Preventive Maintenance

If someone felt like they had Equipment360 but didn't have control of their shop, I always encourage them. It's like focusing on what you can touch. The joys of construction, there's a lot of great minds in the system. They don't always think alike. You're not always gonna get the support you want. But if you can focus on the stuff that you can impact. When I first started using Equipment360, again, I was a shop admin. And what is it, street cred? I didn't have any of that. But I was able to go in and I was able to add serial numbers and add PM schedules. And then our equipment managers was like, so what are you doing with the PM schedules? Oh, this is how we're utilizing it. Okay. So can I start doing x y z or can I flag this for the mechanics? Absolutely. You can. Or I don't know. We probably can. Let me give them a call and see how I can figure this out. But starting small on your scale and just building that foundation. Because as long as you have a foundation when you start going to rope in others to get them to back you on your endeavors, it has such a huge impact. The maintenance schedules that we're able to get ahead of or the compromises we're able to build with the fuel, we're just gonna get ahead of the game now.

I was, actually, real happy, when Equipment360 was released because over the years, I had tried, you know, everything from Excel spreadsheets that I developed on my own to, trying different what I guess would be standalone equipment maintenance software offerings. The big issue was always that even if even if they were able to help me, there was always a disconnect between a lot of the, a lot of the processes that other HCSS products were already, you know, more or less, you know, serving in our company. Obviously, if there's a, operator on a job, then he's running a piece of equipment and that equipment is connected to a job, and they're they have utilization. And that utilization, you know, ultimately tied into the maintenance. There's gonna need there's gonna be a need for maintenance on that piece of equipment. So and so it was like a natural progression that, hey, we already have these products that are capturing a lot of this information. It'd be helpful for us to be able to take this information and put it, in a maintenance package. And that's exactly what Equipment360 was and enabled us to move away from independent, software, your maintenance software and, you know, capture a lot of the a lot of, like, the processes of trying to collect meter readings or job locations or utilization was now coming into Equipment360 through the other products. And that's one of the great things I've always really appreciated about HCSS products is there's always, I think, the forward thinking that ultimately all these different products have some sort of relationship with the other product.