Clue's Playbook for Equipment Managers
Equipment managers can cut downtime and maintenance costs, improve safety, track use, plan preventive maintenance, improve fleet performance, and keep equipment ready with real-time data and predictive tools.
Table of Contents
Utilization
- Utilization is how you make money
- Charge correctly for machine underutilization
- Ask "until when" for every asset request
- Automate rental reports to cut costs
- Try live production tracking
Technology
- Understand OEM telematics
- Make the most of free telematics offers
- You don't need GPS on every unit
- Tailor the right tracker for each asset class
- Optimize fueling with telematics data
- Centralize your rental management
- Use geofences to assign assets to jobs
- Record good report in QuickBooks to keep track of construction projects
Maintenance
- Record every breakdown
- Track your reliability
- Ask "until when" for every asset request
- Focus on your #1 fault code
- Get the operators involved
- Classify work orders accurately
- Recruit your lowboy drivers
- Leverage lube truck drivers to handle basic maintenance
- Track 'glass' related issues
Personal Growth
- Learn to speak the CFO's language
- Benchmark yourself
- Never stop learning
Budgets and Costs
- 4 revenue numbers to check every month
- Use churn charts for capex planning
- Focus on what you can control
- Measure idling in dollars, not just percentages
- Track fuel efficiency
- Know the true impact of idling on capex
- Monitor equipment operating on weekends
- Track project expenses with QuickBooks for construction
See What’s Inside!
From the people who use it every day
What contractors say
“It was probably taking the better part of a day to combine all the data from the telematics.”
Derek Wolfe, Equipment Manager, George Igel Co.
“The big thing with Clue is that we’re able to bridge the gap between our field, our operators in our shop, and other departments.”
Brent Scarbrough & Company
“There were entire teams dedicated to approving spreadsheets one by one.”
Fort McKay First Nation
“The biggest difference has been the user friendliness.”
William A. Hazel
“It exposes dead cost or overhead that maybe we don’t know about because it gets lost in those three different systems.”
Moss Utilities
“Clue’s real-time data capability has completely changed the way we manage our assets.”
Darrin Sheriff, Director of Maintenance and Purchasing
“Clue allows us to effectively control our operations: financially, effectively and safely.”
Joseph Yammine, Project Manager, Graham
“QR codes have been a game changer for us with regards to operator inspections.”
Ben Benoit, Operations Manager
“It’s a single pane of glass where you see everything across your fleet, from the field to the phone to the computer.”
Abe Sharaf, Corporate Equipment Engineer
“Our field guys were tired of having a new product, a new something to learn each time.”
Rob Judge, Sr. Procurement & Program Manager
“Our equipment is in far better shape since we started using Clue, for sure.”
Jake Farley, Equipment Manager, Silver Star Construction
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