Material Handling Telematics
Safety training. Lift truck certification. Federal and local regulations. Material handling safety is complicated, especially with the health and safety of your employees on the line. When material handling safety is complex, investing in finding a streamlined solution for warehouse safety is often worth it. But what are the best tools available to simplify safety?
A mismanaged fleet is usually the first sign of a hazardous warehouse, and teams can use material handling telematics to improve operations and safety immediately. Such technology can be the first line of defense against forklift-related accidents. These accidents can cause loss of life, revenue, and trust, so employing the right solutions can make or break your team. Here, we’ll explore tools for forklift telematics for fleet management so your team can better protect its workforce. But first, we’ll take a closer look at what telematics equipment is and why this kind of tech is important.
What is Equipment Telematics, and Why is it Important?
Equipment telematics software allows teams to oversee vehicles using GPS and onboard diagnostics to track movement and statuses. Equipment telematics uses positioning data to provide high visibility over fleet metrics, allowing teams to assess fleet KPIs to further improve operations. Material handling telematics is important for:
1. Capturing vehicle location, usage, maintenance needs, and other vehicle statuses
2. Improved safety through maintenance adherence and authorized driver sign-on
3. Overhead cost reduction through lowered risk
5. Increasing productivity and efficiency
6. Improving team communication and decision-making
In addition to tracking lift truck location, equipment telematics uses data to improve operations and team safety. The right material-handling telematics software will gather important fleet data to simplify day-to-day tasks and overall team objectives. Telematics software grants teams the ability to lower operational costs without sacrificing productivity and safety.
Modern tech has made fleet equipment telematics possible between GPS services and big data capture. Modern material handling telematics integrates these features with effective forklift fleet management capabilities. Next, we’ll explore specific tools for forklift telematics and forklift fleet management.
Tools for Forklift Telematics and Forklift Fleet Management
When time is money, every second counts. Maximizing uptime, staying on top of maintenance schedules, and streamlining tasks determine a fleet’s success. In today’s fast-paced world, your team can’t afford to fall behind. However, when teams try to improve productivity, safety is often risked to meet quotas. Luckily, forklift telematics can ensure increased productivity and safety. Using material handling telematics for more comprehensive forklift fleet management is a great way to improve operations and safety around the warehouse.
At ELOKON, we’re dedicated to creating industry-leading tools for material handling, including forklift telematics and forklift fleet management. We believe that safety starts with efficient, high-visibility fleet management, and we make this possible through our forklift telematics software, ELOfleet. ELOfleet is our solution for smart forklift fleet management.
ELOfleet: A Better Way to Manage
ELOfleet is our cloud-based smart fleet management system. The easy-to-use smartphone app facilitates tracking, pre-ops checklist, impacts, and more for operators and leadership. The smartphone’s capabilities streamline integration, and its material handling telematics tech immediately improves warehouse safety. With authorized driver sign-on, your team can ensure that only trained and certified drivers have access to operate the material handling vehicle. Drivers can complete the required pre-ops checklist before operating the equipment, and your team can customize the questions to reflect the safety needs of your workplace.
The web-based KPI dashboard increases team communication and data visibility, which helps teams make data-informed decisions to safeguard employees. Your team can analyze KPIs like impact statistics, mean truck utilization, and maintenance schedules so your fleet can be ready to go. ELOfleet also supports mixed fleets and fleets across sites (even between international sites), so your team has gapless oversight, keeping operations moving. KPIs also reflect the whole fleet, empowering you to find the best step forward.
The ELOfleet system is OEM-agnostic, allowing teams to install it on any make or model of industrial trucks. It easily pairs with your smartphone app for simplified forklift telematics. Together, the ELOfleet system, smartphone app, and web-based dashboard offer high control and IT flexibility to maximize fleet operations and cost efficiency.
Based on your safety needs, your team can choose between two iterations of our powerful ELOfleet solution: ELOfleet Sprint and ELOfleet Smart. Each offers features to streamline forklift fleet management, meeting different warehouse safety requirements and preferences.
ELOfleet Sprint
ELOfleet Sprint is designed to optimize safety cost-effectively. This iteration offers RFID access control, crash and impact damage recording, and WiFi damage transmission. ELOfleet Sprint ensures that your team has the material handling telematics data available to transform warehouse safety as soon as possible.
ELOfleet Smart
ELOfleet Smart is a comprehensive solution for forklift fleet management. It offers the same features that ELOfleet Sprint does, but it also offers the ability to take your fleet management to the next level. With safety features like pre-ops checklists, impact checklists, pin-based access control, and more, your team can have higher visibility over fleet information to improve safety as much as possible.
At ELOKON, we understand the critical role of location and onboard diagnostics data in enhancing forklift fleet safety. That’s why we incorporate them to create leading telematics software to make material handling spaces a safer place to work. While lift truck training, signage, high-vis PPE, and other passive safety measures are important for protecting employees, ELOKON solutions raise the bar for warehouse safety. Our ELOfleet solution simplifies fleet management to make the warehouse a safer place, along with our other automated safety and driver assistance tools. With ELOKON, your team can make safety second nature, giving your employees peace of mind.
Streamline Fleet Management With ELOKON
ELOKON engineers design forklift management software with industry pain points in mind. Our automated safety and driver assistance solutions help material handling teams increase productivity and safety. To streamline your mixed and multi-suite fleet, contact us today to get started.