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Manage Your Material Handling Fleet

Optimize the movement of materials to and from production lines

• Remove hidden inefficiencies in material handling productivity
• Track the real flow of your operations by measuring your material handling operations as closely as your production line
• Manage and optimize industrial vehicles and the people who operate them, in real time
• Balance activity among operators and vehicles to eliminate underutilized material handling hours
• Dynamically assign your operators to complete tasks in real-time as changes occur
• Drive a return on investment in less than 12 months

How are you measuring true vehicle and operator performance against your engineering standards?
Maintain appropriate staffing levels based on measurement and benchmarks.

• Gain unique visibility of peak asset utilization to right-size your fleet of material handling vehicles and its associated workforce – for every shift.
• Eliminate paying bonuses for exceeding achievable productivity levels.
• Create benchmarks by measuring total fleet productivity per task, and measure performance.
• Identify best practices and train other operators on lessons learned.
• Collect accurate measurements for your Industrial Engineering/labor planning models.
• Eliminate congestion in problem areas.
• Eliminate operator overtime.
• Measure operator productivity to balance tasks among operators or send newly scheduled or unplanned tasks to the next available/best operator.
• Analyze deadhead time vs. time/distance travelled with loads and create interleaving opportunities.

Do you really need more trucks?
Allocate resources dynamically and direct operators and equipment where they are needed.

• Evaluate the usage of your vehicles against peak production periods to gain more out of your existing fleet or reduce your fleet size.
• Develop performance benchmarks to evaluate how your vehicles and their operators are performing.
• Ensure that your forklifts and other industrial vehicles are utilized as effectively as possible, in the right place at the right time.
• Control vehicle access to keep your vehicles where they are assigned.
• Associate all vehicle activity to a specific operator, including real-time location and route history.
• Create groups of operators authorized to use individual vehicles or fleets of a certain type. Vehicle information can be updated anytime and relayed in real-time without manual intervention.
• Locate vehicles and dispatch operators quickly, in real-time, to meet changing priorities.

What is the cost to your organization when a production line or work center is down because materials were not delivered?
Automate material replenishment on the production line through an optimized, electronic kanban system

• Automate the dispatch and confirmation of these tasks performed by material handling vehicle operators with Opti-Kan™ .
• Intelligent, automatic task scheduling, assignment and execution.
• Gain efficiencies by using the closest available resource where they are needed most.
• Stop using visual signals, walkie talkies or yelling to direct work.
• Enable fewer operators to cover a larger geographic area in the production process.
• Gain real-time, accurate status of material flow for supervisors, floor operators and vehicle operators.
• Record key product movement data by operator and vehicle.

How can you reduce costs?
Gain a unique insight to cost saving opportunities.
Find borrowed or misplaced vehicles in real-time and eliminate the labor costs associated with searching for equipment.

• Avoid costly delays with productivity tools that ensure your vehicles are available to move material to the line.
• Reduce damage to trucks and your facility.
• Identify emerging maintenance issues before they completely disable vehicles.
• Use time-motion reports and peak utilization analyses to identify and quantify opportunities for fleet optimization and “right-sizing”.
• Create full accountability for each of your vehicles, by operators logging on and being responsible for their location, potential damage or vehicle issues.
• Reduce overtime costs with complete visibility into your vehicle and operator availability and assigning resources to meet your needs.

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