This is a critical module for any mobile equipment system.
As well as commenting on excessive fuel consumptions, it gives indications of pilferage
and load factors leading to high wear. For example, we can identify heavy duty conditions
and re schedule preventative maintenance and rebuild work at shorter intervals.
Oil consumption can increase over the life of an oil change as the effects of viscosity
index improvers decrease. Fuel and oil can be used to detect this trend.
Fuel and oil consumptions are calculated over variable periods to investigate
underlying trends. Reports can be produced to detail tax and excise duty rebates.
 | Plant and component. |
| Location tracking. |
| Automatic updates to plant/ asset register, SMU register and scheduled maintenance. |
| Date cross tabulation. |
| SMU cross tabulation. |
| Error checking for invalid date and SMU readings. Entries cannot be created for SMU
readings dramatically higher or lower than those already recorded for the entry date. |
| Recording of both SMR (service meter readings) and SMU (service meter units). |
| Last service meter adjustments. When replacement meters are used, initial readings and
replacement dates are used to convert SMR's to SMU's. |
| Asset register and Scheduled maintenance files are automatically updated (fuel entries
can be used in place of SMU update programs). |
| Fuel can be issued from multiple sources (i.e. fuel trucks, stationery fuel farms). |
| Reconciliation of fuel sources by meter or dip readings with logging of variances. |
| Reports for sales tax and fuel excise rebates. |
| Displayed as a number (in Litres/ Hour or Kilometres/ Litre) or bar charted. Bar charts
are character based and can be displayed on non intelligent terminals. |
| Comparison against low, medium and high consumption standards for estimation of load
factors. |
| Standards can be automatically generated from averages over a maintenance group, or
manually entered from performance handbooks. |
| Linking of load factor trends to location/ working conditions. |
| Oil consumption analysis to determine the point (SMU of the oil) of escalating
consumption. |
| Registering of elevated oil sampling reports, and attachment to work order printouts
warning of potential problems. |
Condition monitoring is designed to be flexible. Specific installations can be fine
tuned with additional analyses and triggers suitable for the range of plant covered.
There are 2 sub modules; wear analysis through used oil sampling and condition
monitoring which records any measurable variable.
Oil sampling can be linked to scheduled maintenance templates for inclusion in work
orders. This will print out a sampling specification sheet with SMU's and hours on the oil
from asset register and consumption module.
Results are entered manually, or automatically read from ASCII files of results
generated by oil laboratories. All results are maintained, not only the last 3-5 samples.
They can be displayed, in bar chart form, in part per million values, or as a wear rate,
factored for SMU on oil, make up oil and sump capacities.
Condition monitoring is linked to Scheduled maintenance, and once an out of condition
result is recorded, a schedule is tagged and can be released as a Work order.
| Plant. |
| Components. |
| Oil laboratory control number. |
| Recording of all elements. |
| Unlimited numbers of records, elements and compounds. |
| Oil hours. |
| Make up oil. |
| Laboratory evaluation code. |
| Charting by peak reading. |
| Wear rates smoothed for SMU on oil, make up oil and sump capacity. |
| Optional interfacing to windows charting packages. |
| Importing of results from ASCII files (user definable layouts for different laboratory
files) |
| Comparison against elevated and urgent standards. |
| Automatic or manual calculation of standards. |
| Charting profiles of selected elements. |
| Look up for fuel consumption trends for load factor analysis. |
