Does Digitizing Forklift Inspection Forms Automatically Collect Data?

If you look up the words: daily forklift inspection forms, you get a bunch of ideas for what areas and line items your operators should be checking for the daily forklift inspection. Some of the daily forklift inspection forms are much longer than others, but both are meant to be printed out, placed on a clipboard and used each day by each of your forklift operators. At this point, do you really need to go searching the Internet for daily forklift inspection forms? Maybe the search words on the Internet should be: how to digitize and analyze data from the daily forklift inspection. Let’s take a further look.

How are Daily Forklift Inspection Forms Useful?

Daily forklift inspection forms have been created to develop a systematic process for inspecting a lift truck. Because there are various types of Class trucks, it is critical to know what needs to be routinely checked each shift to ensure the safety and security of the health and movement of the lift truck.

Example forms are found on the Internet or supplied by the manufacturer if the lift truck is new. These are great to get started. However, you may want to modify some of the questions or add your own specific questions. How can that be done or tracked?

Digitize the Daily Forklift Inspection Forms

Digitizing the daily forklift inspection forms can be done a couple of ways. There are some basic digital software packages that can be purchased. These are some very basic solutions to take the paper forklift inspection form and just digitize it. If you want the analysis part, then you will need to put a spreadsheet together and manually enter in the information in order to track the data for analysis and decision making. Here you have half the solution, but not all.

Digitize and Capture Data from the Daily Forklift Inspection Forms

Forklift safety system solutions exist today that can help take care of both needs such as the SIERA.AI S2 with impact detection. This solution allows you to digitize the daily forklift inspection forms, make edits, additions or deletions based on your requirements. Once that is competed, then the forklift operator uses the touchscreen tablet mounted on the forklift to view and answer the questions. However, security can now be placed on the forklift safety system with proper login information, certifications, and ensuring the forklift checklist gets completed prior to the start of the shift. Otherwise, in each of these scenarios, the forklift will not start. This is called forklift access control.

Telemetry Dashboard

As the information is answered, the data is captured and placed in the online telemetry Dashboard in real-time. The data collected can be used for further analysis and predictive planning especially for maintenance of the lift truck. Each of these trucks are expensive, and maximizing their use is vital to the investment made into the units.

One way to ensure the accuracy of the data is to use the randomization toggle, located in the Dashboard. This allows the manager to randomize the questions for better accuracy of the answers. This is a critical feature that only SIERA.AI offers. Be sure to take advantage to ensure the best information captured for the heath and safety of your facility.

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