Streamlining Operations and Boosting Profits:

Identifying the Challenges and Constraints

Flannery Plant Hire faced significant performance issues and limitations with their previous Tcard software solution. The system was unable to handle their specific requirements, such as managing parent-child relationships between equipment and attachments. These limitations led to inefficiencies in resource allocation, planning, and scheduling, resulting in reduced operational visibility and customer satisfaction. Flannery realised the urgent need for a more robust asset visualisation system that could effectively map, track, and allocate their assets, optimising their utilisation, minimising conflicts, and enhancing productivity. Only clear and effective communication and efficient team coordination could foster smooth project execution, deadline adherence, accurate data handling, informed decision-making, and streamlined workflow management. These factors in turn contributed to enhanced customer satisfaction and reduced risks of errors and inefficiencies.

Effectively managing and tracking the exact yard location, availability, and condition of the assets can only prevent the inefficiencies caused by double booking or underutilisation of equipment. Better planning and scheduling of the equipment can avoid the complexities of coordinating and allocating resources to multiple locations.The operational visibility will also be reduced due to the absence of a system that cannot monitor asset utilisation, maintenance and breakdowns. Manual record-keeping or paperwork lead to increased errors, wastes ample time on manual data entry, and increases the administrative burden.

Recognising the pressing need to address these challenges, Flannery Plant Hire sought a digital asset management solution tailored to their specific workflow. Flannery faced a challenge in finding a solution that could meet their industry-specific requirements, which could help them make data-driven decisions by optimising asset allocation and identifying the areas of improvement. To overcome these challenges, Flannery approached LTS, a well-established and trusted provider of Tcard software for managing Equipment Rental systems, who are renowned for their expertise in delivering customisable solutions.

Addressing Workflow Challenges:
Leveraging Tailored Digital Plant Hire TCards Solutions for Optimal Efficiency

Flannery Plant Hire partnered with LTS to address their workflow challenges, for which LTS was able to offer a tailored digital solution that met Flannery's requirements, which allowed improved asset maping and efficient resource allocation. The customisability of the software ensured it aligned perfectly with the intricacies of the plant hire industry, enabling Flannery to streamline operations and achieve optimal productivity.

Digital Tcard Software offered a wide range of features that exactly matched the needs of the equipment rental industry. By providing a Parent-Child relationship to the cards in the Tcard board, they gained better visibility of the machines and their assets by monitoring them in the virtual yards. The location-specific dashboards helped them monitor their asset statuses at once, be it the hire or the yard, and provided up-to-date information, which could be monitored on a TV screen in the office. Locating and monitoring the assets' status improved the asset visibility and reduced the risk of loss, miscommunication or theft, enhancing overall asset management.

The Depot transfer functionality of the Tcard software facilitated the movement of the assets from one location to another with ease, avoiding manual errors that could occur while transferring assets. This feature enhanced the planning and scheduling of the assets by giving comprehensive data on equipment availability, location, movement, and utilisation status.

Additionally, the online Tcard system also provided a drag-and-drop feature, which allowed Flannery to move multiple machines together, with the reports of asset count in each location and activity logs that tracked every activity and sent notifications when the status of the cards was moved to a different location. With a proper asset management system that gives timely status updates of the tracked assets, equipment or asset shortages could be fulfilled with a request feature without delaying the process flow.

The benefits of the instant asset breakdown indication helped to optimise resource allocation by shifting the breakdown assets to the maintenance areas. Updated information about the available resources are tracked separately to maximise asset utilisation.Individually identified in the dashboards, these allowed quicker actions of shifting them to the maintenance areas for repairs.

Digital Tcards also made the transition to a new solution easy by directly being able to import data from their previous solution in the Excel format and getting the cards and boards created accordingly.