Dec 4 2009
The recently introduced Spectrum™ Equipment Service System will highlight the Dexter + Chaney booth (#222) at Utility Construction EXP0 ’10. The National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) event will take place January 10-13 at Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Hotel in Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Spectrum Equipment Service System is equipment-management software that provides a solution to a familiar problem for heavy contractors: recording accurate equipment hours. By gathering equipment hours electronically with Equipment Service System, the company avoids the time and hassle of manual data collection that results in inaccurate and unreliable asset-management information.
The system simplifies equipment servicing for mechanics and fuel truck drivers. They’re not required to climb into individual pieces of equipment to read the hour meter and write down the current reading. There’s also no need to keep a detailed log recording fuel for each piece of equipment. Instead, Spectrum automatically captures operating hours and fuel, thus saving time and eliminating errors in the field. Office staff does not have to re-enter long lists of hours logged and fuel used into a company’s equipment-management software.
Spectrum Equipment Service System includes three main components: Equipment Monitor, Field Master touch screen device and Fuel Controller. The Equipment Monitor, a small device attached to each piece of machinery, records operating hours and idle hours and automatically relays that data to the Field Master each time the equipment is fueled or serviced. The Field Master—mounted in a fuel truck or service vehicle—uses a built-in cellular modem to relay equipment hours, fuel usage, maintenance and other data to Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum® Construction Software.
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