ThingTech Optimizes Rental-Equipment Utilization, Maintenance & ROI with Telematics

One reason for this growth is the market shift from buying and leasing equipment to renting equipment. Moving capital expenditures (CAPEX) to the operating expenses (OPEX) column gives companies more flexibility over their spending, tax deductible expenses and minimal maintenance costs. So, not only must rental companies deliver to their customers the right equipment to the right worksite at the right time, every time, but equipment that is serviced and well-maintained now becomes mission critical.
Ground Breaking Technology for Groundbreaking Industries Contractors and subcontractors want peace of mind knowing their rental equipment will get the job done and keep projects on time and on budget. ThingTech can help by offering rental companies an IoT-enabled solution that provides connectivity to your rental equipment anytime, anywhere. Real-time data makes it easier to run your business because at any given time you can view where your equipment is, how often it is being used, and when it requires routine service and preventive maintenance. Additionally, ThingTech’s custom reports and dashboards can help you identify which equipment types are rented the most or used the most so that you can right-size your inventory and pricing strategy.
ThingTech Real Time is a radically new IoT data product engineered on an industrial IoT platform with built-in connectors for field service mobility and enterprise asset management. With ThingTech, rental companies can adopt new business models, such as offering rates based on actual equipment usage. The ThingTech solution also helps you protect your equipment from loss or theft, and more accurately notify customers when equipment is delivered or picked up, in use after business hours, inactive, excessively used, needs to be serviced, or approaching the return date to help them avoid overages.
For rental companies, there is no easier way to drive revenue and increase market share while reducing costs, increasing operational efficiency, and improving customer satisfaction. Also, by digitally transforming your business, your customers can increase productivity, efficiency, and profitability across their worksites.
Rental Industry Connectivity Challenges Connecting rental equipment over data networks is becoming a top concern for rental company executives, and the customer’s business challenges below highlight why IoT adoption is increasing in the industry:

• Lack of visibility—Not knowing exactly where your rental equipment is and how it is performing causes significant problems for customers and the account managers trying to keep their business. One key to keeping projects on track and within budget is avoiding unnecessary delays. Delays can result from waiting for or looking for equipment. Real-time visibility into equipment location gives you and your customers the ability to track equipment on and between worksites so that you know when and if it moves. This presents you with the ability to alert customers of underutilized equipment that is negatively impacting profit margins. Together with ThingTech, you can ensure equipment is more efficiently used to keep projects on time and on budget.
• Excessive overages—According to McKinsey & Company, large construction projects usually take 20% longer to finish than initially scheduled and can run 80% over budget. ThingTech Real Time not only helps your customers avoid pushing back their timeline, but it also helps them control their costs. Overdue equipment on rent, for example, is a signal of operational inefficiencies and can lead to costs spiraling out of control. Is equipment being rented when it is needed? Does equipment sit idle waiting to be used? In any case, integrating ThingTech Real Time into your rental operations will allow you to trigger alerts when equipment is approaching its return date so that customers can be notified. For rental equipment that is kept passed the return date, you can leverage your IoT data to charge your best customers rental and overage fees by actual utilization versus days out.
• Controlling downtime—Equipment on rent has many benefits to your customer’s business, one of which is escaping maintenance costs. While every customer will be up against downtime in one way or another, ThingTech can help you prevent and effectively correct unplanned equipment breakdowns that lead to lost productivity, among other things. ThingTech’s industrial IoT platform is custom built for asset-intensive organizations. With ThingTech Real Time integrated into your preventative maintenance processes, you’ll improve equipment reliability and reduce overall maintenance costs by tracking utilization and performing maintenance based on use as opposed to a time-based approach.

Additionally, you’ll eliminate paperwork by digitizing maintenance records and maximize the resale value to equipment buyers.
Why ThingTech Real Time? ThingTech Real Time can help you answer your biggest operational questions, such as:

• Where are my things?
• What condition are they in?
• How are they performing?
• How can I use this data to operate with greater efficiency?

ThingTech Real Time provides you with complete visibility into field operations by gathering real-time data from “things” in transit or at rest. Things can be defined as vehicles, heavy equipment and machines, infrastructure, sensors, mobile assets or mobile workers.
ThingTech Real Time Isn’t Just Dots on a Map When you deploy ThingTech Real Time, you’ll be able to track your vehicles, access engine diagnostics, streamline maintenance programs, and so much more. ThingTech delivers actionable intelligence by helping rental companies analyze operations as they are, in relation to as they should be.
Features

• Edge to cloud to enterprise scalability
• Generate actionable data
• Streaming location and machine data
• Rich, beautiful mapping and visualizations
• Flexible rules-base engine
• Monitor and predict asset failures
• Custom alerts and notifications in real time
• Access anytime, anywhere on any device
• Powerful, robust reports and dashboards

Your road to ROI starts here. Contact ThingTech anytime to discuss your smart cities or vehicle tracking projects, or to schedule a free demo.