Extend the Life of Your Forklifts by Retrofitting Forklifts with a Forklift Safety System
Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on purchase new lift trucks. Management is always searching for ways to reduce operational expenses, and forklifts are a big ticket item. As we know, a car is a depreciating asset. The same goes for forklifts. Forklifts however, get more banged up, more scratches and hit more objects than cars ever do. Unless you are in a demolition derby, then maybe.
To retrofit a forklift with a forklift safety system one may ask: Can this be a way to reduce the number of forklift purchases? Maybe even reduce the number of scratches and hits with other objects or equipment? Wouldn’t that be nice. It can happen. With the help of AI technology in a forklift safety system, you can protect your forklifts and even reduce the amount of new forklifts you need to purchase each year…along with other savings. Let’s take a look.
What is Retrofit a Forklift with a Forklift Safety System?
By utilizing technologies, such as AI and machine learning, you can extend the life of the lift truck, save money in the process and reduce the waste of selling or trashing a viable piece of equipment. Therefore, it is possible to retrofit a forklift with a forklift safety system.
Retrofit for Savings
Extending the life of a forklift would bring advantages to not only the company’s bottom line, but also to maintenance and the safety professionals. A forklift safety system will:
• Maintain OSHA compliance: This means that digitally you will be able to track what forklifts are in use, who is using it and ensure that it is in good working order.
• Maintenance Scheduling: You can ask more (or less) questions in the checklist that are specific to the lift truck to gather pertinent information so you know if and when the forklift needs to be serviced. By asking specific questions, you’ll also be on top of replacing parts before the forklift goes down. This is proactive maintenance.
• Reduce or Eliminate Downtime: Because of the randomization of questions, which allows you more accuracy in answers to questions, you can be on top of any issues of the lift truck. This will reduce or fully eliminate any downtime which causes the company money.
• Detecting Objects or People: As a forklift safety system can detect objects and people, this reduces the amount impacts and the severity of the impacts. This alone will extend the life of the lift truck as well as the repair costs due to carelessness of the forklift operator. This will also reduce the amount of expenses due to worker’s compensation and the costs that follow for years to come. The object detection will also decrease the amount of spoiled product of your own or of a customer’s that you are handling.
• Reduce the cost of damages: Damages are reduced in the facility itself. Items such as racking systems, other mobile equipment and pallets will realize less damage, thus reducing the repair costs of the facility.
Regardless of Brand
By retrofitting a forklift with a forklift safety system, you will no longer need to worry about the manufacturer, brand or age of the lift truck. This will allow you to take your current investment in your forklift fleet and begin to extend the life of your investment. What would it mean to your company to cut the amount of new forklift purchases in half? Or maybe even skip a year?
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