3 Key Areas Digital Transformation Efforts on a Forklift Can Positively Affect the Bottom Line

How far have you gotten in your digital transformation efforts? Some digital transformation projects can be very large in your facility, requiring significant investments in technology and manpower. But what if you can show impact and progress with digital transformation efforts with a smaller, yet critically important project that shows improvements to the bottom line with OSHA compliance, minimal downtime and increased productivity? And complete the project in a short timeframe with an affordable solution.

What are Digital Transformation Efforts?

Digital transformation efforts take a look at the current way a process is being completed, and evaluate if digitizing some or all of the process can improve internal operations, customer satisfaction and reduce costs. It certainly is a tall order, but getting smaller projects done can add up to big savings.

A Harvard Business Review  Analytics Survey revealed the importance of digital transformation efforts. The first one was no surprise with companies wanting to rapidly respond to customer demands. Next is to update the new system efficiently, and controlling maintenance costs rounds out the top priorities.

Improving Internal Operations

By transforming from a paper-based forklift inspection checklist to an electronic checklist you can make improvements to your internal operations by:

• Maintaining OSHA compliance
• Ensuring the identity of the forklift operator is the right person on the truck
• Questions and answers are accurately completed by giving management a choice of randomizing the questions as well as the answers
• All failed forklift inspections get notifications sent to one or more people for immediate attention
• All digital answers are stored, tallied and analyzed in a web-based telemetry Dashboard
• All reports are easily generated for management or OSHA safety visitor

Customer Satisfaction

The best way to improve customer satisfaction is to get the order fulfilled…fast. How fast depends on your internal operations. This means your forklift and their drivers. You need to keep the forklift drivers and the forklifts working without interruption to ensure this is successful. However, if the forklift isn’t taken care of properly, it can break down and go in for repair which means you’re calculating downtime instead of fulfilling orders. This happens because the forklift driver didn’t complete the forklift checklist accurately. This can cause customer satisfaction to go down. 

Next, we all know the forklift driver can driver pretty fast in a facility. This puts people, product and other equipment at high risk for an accident. This is where having a pedestrian detection system in place can ensure customer satisfaction. How? It allows the forklift drivers to do their job while keeping the driver, pedestrians and everything around them safe.

Learn more about our pedestrian detection forklift safety system now.

Reduce Costs

SIERA.AI offers pedestrian detection monitoring solution with its S3 Pedestrian Detection System. This allows the forklift driver to keep working and the pedestrian detection monitoring to be doing its thing, both at the same time. How does it work?

• The safety and/or plant manager decides when the warnings need to be enacted when a pedestrian or object is nearby. For instance, warn the driver when a person is 3’, 10’ all the way up to 33’. What distance is best for you?

• Let the driver begin his day…as usual. Remember, he has a quota to make each day and wants to do his job right….and without incident.

• When a pedestrian comes within the defined distance (as stated in the first bullet), it will give him and audio and visual warning. The visual warning is unique. If it is a person, it will show a picture of a person. If it’s an object, then a box will show symbolizing an object.

• The forklift driver will have time to take action by slowing down and avoiding an accident.

Summary

Putting for some digital transformation efforts at the lowest level…the forklift, can improve internal operations, improve customer satisfaction and ultimately save you money. This is a fast implementation where you can begin to realize savings now. So let’s get to it by scheduling a demonstration today. Contact us at sales@siera.ai.