How a G Force Impact Monitor Can Reduce Facility and Product Damage

A G force impact monitor measure and reports what’s going on in your facility when you can’t be watching every moving forklift during each shift…every day. Many facility managers just want the problem of pedestrians being injured or property being damaged to stop. As long as that is happening, the rest can go away. But is that really the best solution? Is not knowing better than knowing? What if the G force impact monitor tells you that 90% of your facility damage is caused by a single forklift operator, or is caused by a particular area that only needed minor adjusting to remove the threat. Would you want to know. Let’s take a few moments to better understand what a G force impact monitor it and how it can help fix frustrations in the facility.

What is a G Force Impact Monitor?

A G force impact monitor reports on the strength of an impact. To understand G force, know that 1 G equals 22 MPH. If a forklift hits a box at 1 G, or 22 MPH, what damage would it do? If a forklift hits a box at 3 G’s or 66 MPH, what damage would it do? Determining these answers going up to 10 G, you can figure out what that box is going to look like from a 1 G to a 10 G. Now let’s take this information and apply it to your facility.

The Best Settings for You

There are lots of different G force impact monitor systems in the market today. Should it be a stand-alone, or is it something that is part of the forklift safety system is up to you. For our conversation today, the G force impact monitor is integrated into the SIERA.AI forklift safety system. One of the benefits of it being integrated are the settings. Here you get to decide based on what your answers would be from the previous paragraph, what level impacts are important to you. Why would this be important?

If you are a facility that is moving around toilet paper, your G force impact monitor might be set higher, let’s say 6 or 7. But if your forklifts are carrying around large steel tubing, the G force impact monitor might be set much lower at let’s say 3 or 4.

Why Would I Want These Settings?

The reason for the settings is for notification. You will need to decide if you want a notification for every time there is a G force impact of 1 all the way to 10, or maybe you only want to know where there is a G force impact of 6 and above. The beauty of the settings is that you can change them to best represent what you want or need for your facility…especially once you’ve identified the problem, fixed it and now you can change the settings to be a bit higher.

What is it Telling Me?

By collecting the data from these various impacts and having them recorded in a telemetry Dashboard in real time allows you to make critical decisions in your facility quickly. If you find that the impacts are occurring with one or two forklift operators and no one else is experiencing the same thing, then you’ll know that these two forklift operators need training. Not in everything, but focused training to help them learn how to handle this particular situation. However, if you find that this is a common impact occurrence that happens to various drivers, but in a particular area, now you can go to the area, see for yourself what needs to be altered and change it, now you can monitor the effectiveness of the change and make additional changes if necessary.

To gain a better understanding of the ease of control with the G force impact monitor, give us a call or drop us an email so you can see it for yourself. Contact us today at sales@siera.ai or call us at (512) 817 0702.