Add Years to Your Mobile Equipment with Electronic Inspection Checklists and Impact Detection

A mobile equipment inspection in the material handling industry requires a pre-shift inspection, according to OSHA. For mobile equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, golf carts and reach trucks, to name a few, there’s going to be various individuals who will be operating the machinery and knowing if the mobile equipment inspection was completed is critical, but also knowing the results of the pre-shift inspection helps with maintenance and productivity while minimizing downtime.

But that’s just half of what you want to know. What about capturing the data the material handling equipment is experiencing during its movement? Do you want to know if impacts occurred? Who it was? Especially when they say, “it wasn’t me,” or “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

What is Mobile Equipment Inspection?

Digital mobile equipment inspection is the real-time checklist, capture, notification and data presentment on a telemetry Dashboard. It is the critical 3-5 minutes review of the current state or the mechanical health of the forklift, pallet jack or other mobile equipment. By knowing the current health of the equipment, it can help determine if the mobile equipment is prime for a breakdown during critical business hours.

Add Years to Your Mobile Equipment

Performing a mobile equipment inspection will certainly add years to the life of your facility’s mobile equipment. Uncovering a problem before it happens, such as a steering, braking or a simple hose will help the performance of the equipment, like a forklift, especially in harsh conditions like freezers, or curing industrial ovens. By maintaining the correct fluid levels and fully sealed hoses will help to keep the mobile equipment running at high performance without overburdening the other internal components of the mobile equipment.

Capturing Inspection Answers

How is this done? Mobile equipment inspection is done with a simple tablet. After the mobile equipment operator scans their badge to prove authorization, a question at a time will appear. To ensure the authenticity of an answer, you have the choice in the telemetry Dashboard to turn on the ‘random’ feature. This means the operator will not know which question comes up first. If the operator tries to quickly answer, because the operator tried to memorize the order of the questions, there’s a high risk that the forklift inspection will fail. Nor will the operator know if you added, edited, changed or took out a question. Need to read.

Where do the Answers Go?

All of the answers get recorded in rea-time into the telemetry web-based Dashboard. You’ll be able to view if any mobile equipment failed an inspection whether it be in your facility or any other facility in the world. In addition, you’ll be able to analyze any common themes with the mobile equipment, operator commonalities, or impact patterns. If any machines fail the mobile equipment inspection, a notification will be sent to one, two or any amount to notify of the issue. This will allow for greater control over the situation, as time will be on your side, and you’ll be able to evaluate the situation in its infancy.

Let’s Talk Impacts

With the SIERA.AI mobile equipment inspection system, you’ll also be able to take advantage of impact detection. This allows you to track and measure in the telemetry Dashboard the low, medium and high impacts. Again, you’ll receive notification if an impact occurs, for low, medium or high. You can choose which one you want a notification for, and also set the G force in the telemetry Dashboard. Now if you are wondering ‘who’ was involved in the impact, you can set this feature in the Dashboard – take a picture. If an impact occurs, a picture of the operator will be taken. This is so you can identify who was operating the vehicle at the time as well as know what the operator was doing.

Summary

Mobile equipment inspection is critical to keeping your facility up and running in order to fulfill orders. In addition, knowing what fails, when impacts occur and also how severe the impacts are, are vital to the profitability of your mobile equipment.

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