What Happens After the Forklift Failed Its Inspection?

Forklift failed inspection is a serious disruption to the business. When a forklift can no longer perform, the facility experiences downtime which causes the company to lose money. We all know that performing a forklift inspection is critical to the health of the machine. But often enough, you’ll find that your forklift failed inspection.

Forklift Failed Inspection

According to the SIERA.AI customer telemetry Dashboard from January 1, 2022 to March 27, 2022, there were 244 forklift failed inspection. That means 244 notifications went out to the contact or contacts that need to know that the forklift failed inspection. These individuals were chosen as they are the ones to take action when a forklift failed inspection occurs. Their goal is to minimize downtime and risk of lost productivity and money.

At the Start of a Shift

At the start of every shift, the forklift driver scans his badge to logs into the S2 Digital Inspection Checklist with Impact Monitoring. This prompts the forklift driver to begin the inspection before he can begin his daily tasks or even drive the forklift. All he needs to do is answer the questions with the thumbs up or the thumbs down. Once the system notifies the driver that they have passed inspection, the driver can begin his task and the forklift with start. If the forklift driver doesn’t pass inspection, then the forklift will not start and a notification will be sent to the appropriate contact people.

What If Something Goes Wrong?

What if the forklift passed inspection and has a problem after the day had begun? If the forklift passed the initial inspection, then the forklift driver is able to proceed with starting the forklift and use it during the daily tasks. If while the driver is using the forklift that an issue begins, the forklift will provide a warning to the forklift driver and give a designated amount of time for the forklift driver to pull over and stop the forklift in a safe location.

How Much Time is Needed?

That is up to you. You can set the time for the forklift to automatically shut down if something happens to the forklift during operation. You can set it for 30 seconds, 45 seconds or 2 minutes. The timeframe is open in the telemetry Dashboard in an open and flexible way in order to accommodate what is best for your operation.

Telemetry Dashboard

The telemetry Dashboard will track for you all of the passed and failed forklift inspection. The telemetry Dashboard allows you to drill down to the next level and sort by worksite, asset type, the name of the asset, who was the last person to inspect the forklift as well as the date and time. This information will allow the maintenance manager to conduct further analysis as to why the forklift had broken down. It may be a one-time event, or maybe it’s a defect in the manufacturer’s forklift.

Take a Deeper Look at the Telemetry Dashboard by contacting us at sales@siera.ai. It’s a great way to gain a better understanding of the depth of information captured.