Waiting to Implement Electronic Forklift Inspections Can Cost You Money, Productivity and Critical Information

Forklift digital transformation for your forklift safety inspections is the goal you want to reach. Until this gets accomplished, you’ll need to deal with the threat of consequences. Did you know that industry statistics show that the #1 OSHA cited safety violation are forklift accidents? Where can you start so you don’t become a statistic? How about forklift digital transformation.

What is Forklift Digital Transformation?

Forklift digital transformation is the process of moving from paper-based forklift inspection checklists to electronic or digital checklists. It’s allowing the forklift driver to answer the questions electronically so answers to questions can be immediately reported in a telemetry Dashboard for recording in real-time, analyzing the results and quickly report to maintenance, management or even OSHA.

The Process of Conversion

The process is simple but the amount of time it takes is dependent upon you. Let’s take a look at the process and you can decide how fast you can get this done.

1. Gather all of the different forklift checklists. You may have one for electric, gas or propane forklifts, reach trucks, pallet trucks, sweepers, golf carts and more.

2. Review your current forklift inspection checklists to identify any questions or answers you want to add, modify, or delete. Now do the same thing again for the answers.

3. Work with your provider, SIERA.AI customer success team, to learn how to quickly enter in all of the content from your paper-based forklift inspection checklists. (It’s pretty fast, so don’t expect to wait a long time before you begin entering the questions and answers.)

What You Can Lose by Not Transforming?

If it’s not broken, why fix it? Isn’t that what they say? In this case, by not fixing it, you may be losing money, productivity and critical information.

• Money: The lift trucks can be experiencing downtime, long maintenance time, long repair time, the forklift isn’t being checked by the driver, or thoroughly inspected. The managers are wasting time chasing after forklift drivers to fill it out, or going through each binder or booklet to review the content. Or what if you find out there’s a high percentage of pencil whipping going on. What crucial information are you losing?

• Productivity: If any of the lift trucks are out of service, that costs you in productivity. If the forklift breaks down during a shift, that costs you productivity. If the operators get into an accident, or dents the lift truck, it costs you in productivity. (and of course money in all of these situations.)

• Critical information: by not capturing the data where it can be analyzed, and actionable decisions can be made, you’ll lose productivity and money for not knowing the critical aspects of the lift trucks. Let’s talk about this further.

Critical Information

Every time a forklift inspection checklist is completed, the answers are recorded in real-time in the telemetry Dashboard. These answers are critical for you to know the health of the forklift truck. Maintenance will know exactly when it needs to perform routine maintenance or to check if a part of underperforming. Staying ahead will result in a significant reduction in downtime and even less time in for repairs. Let’s take a quick look as to what management will know as a result of a telemetry Dashboard.

• Track failures and click on the number to tell you which forklift failed and location. You can track any and all failures in one or fifty-one locations. It all is tracked in the same telemetry Dashboard.

• Get immediate notifications on failures

• Track the type of failures so you can communicate back to the manufacturer a pattern for failures or problems with the lift truck.

• Print fast and easy reports for any OSHA representative that comes to your facility.

Summary

The telemetry Dashboard will give you the real-time information you need from completing a forklift digital transformation. The cost of the investment versus the cost and productivity lost can be quite significant. We can help you come to that number to help support your business plan and justification. Contact us today to get started at sales@siera.ai.