#fleet performance

The concept of Telematics has profoundly impacted the fleet industry. Its impact on fleet management is so great that it makes one wonder why the technology did not arrive sooner or how the industry coped for so long without Telematics!

 Telematics is an indispensable tool to improve a fleet’s sustainability. With real time feedback and data that the telematics system provides, actionable steps that contribute to better management of the fleet can be taken by fleet operators. These changes are the impactful elements that push the fleet towards sustainability.  

 Tangerine is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered data analytics company for smart mobility solutions. It integrates telematics solutions into your fleet operations, thereby increasing the efficiency, safety, productivity, and sustainability of the fleet through actionable intelligence. Tangerine drives profitable growth of your business by influencing and improving the sustainability of your fleet. A few ways by which Tangerine helps you better manage your fleet are :

 Route Optimization

Telematics allows fleet operators to arrive at the most efficient route in advance. The system also optimizes routes in real-time by analyzing and sometimes predicting changes. This helps fleet operators meet client expectations for delivery times. It can also improve overall fleet performance and lead to a data-driven, optimized fleet operation.

 Fuel Economy

With Tangerine, you can plan your routes better and avoid unnecessary detours or stops. You can also assign the best suited vehicle and driver for each trip. With better route planning, reduced stops, and optimized vehicle and driving behavior, it is obvious that fuel expenses are reduced significantly.

 Fleet Maintenance

Tangerine keeps your fleet secure. You can cut down on unscheduled downtimes with preventive and predictive maintenance. This can be achieved through complete and detailed monitoring of the fleet service history, maintenance schedule, and real-time vehicle health information. By keeping a tab on each vehicle’s health, unplanned downtime can be reduced, thereby boosting performance and efficiency to the highest levels.

 Driver Performance Evaluation

 Tangerine helps you gain deeper insights into driver performance. It gives you real-time as well as collated data about the driver’s performance, safety, efficiency, and driving style. Our driving score is powered by AI and is based on overspeeding, sudden accelerations, hard braking, sharp cornering, drowsiness, total triptimes etc. Through the analysis the data, driver performance and overall safety can be improved drastically by timely intervention and coaching.

 Compliance and Regulation

 Tangerine provides you with electronic logging device (ELD) compliance solutions. This helps your fleet stay compliant with current regulations and avoid penalties and violations at inspections. It also significantly reduces the time spent completing HOS logs.

 Tangerine enables you to unlock new levels of productivity and operational efficiency with the help of industry-first solutions that bring innovation, automation and data insights to your fleet management. With greater transparency and accountability, your fleet can be safer, productive and happier. Tangerine fuels your fleet’s sustainability with AI and data analytics integrated approach.  

To know more: https://tangerine.ai/blog/sustainable-fleet-management-how-tangerine-is-making-an-impact/

Performance management for fleets is a measurement through which the effectiveness and efficiency of the fleet management strategy can be demonstrated. It is an index of performance that will help you to enhance the fleet’s overall productivity. Fleet productivity is the basic measure of work output. By creating a productivity score, you can objectively measure performance and thus identify successes and pinpoint areas for improvement. The ultimate goal of any performance management is to achieve fleet efficiency and reduce your fleet costs.

 There are many ways to determine performance benchmarks. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) is a great way to measure and bridge the gap between where you are and where you actually want to be. Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) refers to the tools and methods that fleet operators use to monitor performance metrics of the fleet. By measuring KPIs, various specific data are captured. The collected data are then analyzed and converted into useful metrics that can be measured and reported in easily understandable charts and dashboards. This can help determine if the performance level of the fleet indicates a level of improvement or if there is a need to optimize specific areas of the operation. KPIs offer insights into various aspects of a fleet’s operations. They can also be customized depending on needs and specific requirements.

 Monitoring Maintenance Schedule

 A good indicator of fleet performance is the data correlation between scheduled maintenance versus unscheduled maintenance routines. Scheduled maintenance is indicative of a proactive plan – where the fleet functions to a set routine of calculated disruptions where preventive and regular maintenance works are carried out during pre-scheduled downtimes, whereas unscheduled maintenance is indicative of reactive maintenance – a downtime that arises due to the need to perform an unavoidable repair work, thereby rendering the vehicle out of action. Unscheduled maintenance stops are indicative of breakdowns – unnecessary and unplanned downtimes that throw schedules into a tizzy. By tracking your fleet’s scheduled versus unscheduled maintenance, you can check how effective your preventive maintenance plans have been. If there is not much asynchrony between the two parameters, it means that your preventive maintenance plan is working. A preventive maintenance plan is a controlled and planned downtime that gives your fleet trouble-free extension of life and avoids unexpected breakdowns.

 Service Costs

 You can also measure the amount you spend per mile on maintenance and upkeep of the fleet. Lower the spend, higher is the performance of your fleet. After a period of time, all vehicles start losing out on efficiency and will require constant upkeep. By monitoring maintenance expenditures, you will know precisely when the asset starts non-performing and by prompt replacement, you can ensure that the overall efficiency of the fleet remains high and maintenance costs remain low.

 Fuel Costs

 Fuel fuels your fleet – and if the expenditure is too much, it can burn a hole into your profits! Fuel spends are a major expenditure incurred in fleet operation. By monitoring fuel spends you can understand whether your strategy is working or failing. Based on the data, you can tweak route optimization, vehicle allocation, driver behavior and even run a vehicle condition check to ensure the operational efficiency stays high.

 Driver Safety Behavior

 Safety on the road is a big parameter that defines how efficient and productive your fleet is. If the number of incidents on the road is zero and close to zero, it means that your fleet is a minimum-risk high-performing asset. By monitoring incident data, you can understand where things are going wrong, and based on the feedback work at solving issues such as correcting driver behavior, modifying driving habits, optimizing route and vehicle etc. Reducing incidents ensures that unnecessary downtimes are eliminated and the fleet continues operating at a high efficiency. It also avoids expenses incurred through traffic penalties, repairs, messy litigations and high insurance premiums.    

 Tangerine

 Tangerine offers customizable Telematics solutions that enable you to track your fleet and monitor performance. Our innovative fleet management tools give you complete visibility and help increase the efficiency, safety and productivity of your fleet through actionable intelligence. With technology and data analytics, you can cut down on inefficiencies by identifying and resolving performance discrepancies quickly. You can review, track, intervene and improve your fleet operations.

 With Tangerine’s fleet analytics dashboard, you can track your fleet remotely. Data such as vehicle’s live location, speed, distance traversed, driving duration, idle time, stops etc are tracked realtime. This gives you a complete record of daily KPIs like number of vehicles in operation, maintenance schedules/requirement of the vehicles, total distance covered by the vehicles, time taken, fuel consumed etc. Live tracking also helps you evaluate driver analytics. By examining driver behavior data, you can actuate resultant interventions and awareness initiatives, and cut down on expenses such as fuel costs, maintenance expenses and traffic violations. You can also prevent unscheduled downtimes.

 Tangerine also helps you to attend to and solve vehicle issues using proactive maintenance schedules. This reduces the chances of unexpected breakdowns, by staying on top of regular and overall maintenance. With Tangerine’s AI capabilities, you can better predict component failure and Remaining Useful Like (RUL).

 With Tangerine’s AI-Powered Fleet Analytics, you can make data-driven and analytics-based informed decisions that will allow you to increase the performance of your fleet and its overall efficiency by leveraging predictive insights. You can discover new opportunities to fine-tune your organization’s functional efficiency and performance, thereby improving productivity and profitability.

To know more: https://tangerine.ai/blog/performance-management-for-fleets/

Commercial maritime shipping organizations steer new obstacles and are generating more data than before. The need for data standardization and having a dedicated cyber secured bandwidth is rising within the ecosystem. Witnessing the evolution in the operations and ship 4.0 on the roll, owners and operators are having long-term and short-term objectives they plan to achieve with digitalization. But, one aspect that remains common is data standardization and cyber security.

The maritime industry and stakeholders are slowly accepting the modern approach to data collection, integration, standardization, and analytics. They can open the door to efficiencies within their day-to-day operations.

As a leading maritime technology company working in live fleet monitoring and performance. SSH is cyber secured and works on low bandwidth to connect vessels with the shore team. The standardization of vessel monitoring and control systems is crucial for stakeholders, as to monitor the fleet from with standard data available to evaluate, monitor the vessels with the live status of the performance. Stakeholders can also demand analytics available from secured and safe data transmission bandwidth.

The long-standing partnership with KVH allows SSH to make it possible for the maritime ecosystem to have a cyber-secure dedicated bandwidth.

SSH infrastructure deploys an advanced Remote vessel management platform capable of Remote Monitoring of vessels by Charters, Insurers, Superintendents & Managers. SSH creates an unparalleled experience in creating their own digital towers for the owners. Having a digital tower in asset management is helping the shore team to have a centralized repository in managing the assets.

Here is what you should check for before planning your command center.

1.     Budget: With an objective to reduce the cost, the digital tower should not be a cost heavy on the organization. One should opt for technology that will last for next 5-7 years minimum and 9-12 years with few upgradations on few lines as required. It is also important to consider the maintenance or annual subscription cost.

2. Process and Standardization: Data management efforts depend on the facility to gather and preserve data that are clean, standardized, structured. With modern Iot sensors its very important to choose and select the right data sourcing points which will help to have standard data across the asset. SSH makes it easy for the stakeholders (internal and external) to read data, which is required for their restricted access. Standardization is a key element to check for.

3. AI and ML: Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning being the backbone for the tech, it is important to know, how agile, dynamic this technology can be leveraged at. With the data coming in live from the vessel and being processed it is quite important to know the functionality of this tech.

Taking into consideration the above points one to consider before investing in digital tower. But why should one invest in a digital tower?

1.     Remote Asset Monitoring: Fleet Performance & Voyage management remotely from shore was something impossible few years back. With innovation and technological advancements, now it is possible and helping many organizations. A dedicated cloud based multitenant platform is now available with capabilities to monitor live status, alarms, alerts and provide advisory. On demand analytics based on historical and live data add further to the benefits to vessel Owner & managers.

2. Reduce operational cost: Managing day-to-day operations is an expensive activity for every owner and operator. The digital tower comes with various solutions and features helping them to reduce operational costs. It is crucial to monitor the expense of fuel, spares, maintenance practice and vetting which can take a major portion. A digital platform capable of giving advisory and alerts based on historical data and integration of different trial reports and having them backed by live data can help organizations to reduce operational costs notably.

3. Increase asset performance: Monitoring engine performance and finding anomalies in any kind of performance can be noticed and addressed immediately. It will also help in planning and voyages of different assets considering the data coming from other vessels and using to chart the KPI for other vessels on the same route.

4. Situational awareness: Modern technology provides complete awareness and knowledge of the actual & lie vessel performance. The alarms, alerts, advisory and analytics give out trends based on the live & historical data from the vessels.  Owners/ Charters can have selected analytics based on the requirement at the office like fuel consumption, Noon Vs Actual, fuel speed comparison to name a few. Lots of options and combinations make it interesting for the user’s benefit.