Operated Technology
Ever since Flannery Plant Hire was incorporated in 1972, the business has been offering operated plant for hire. But today, its trained operators don’t just benefit from the newest equipment, they also take advantage of the technology it comes with.
This is thanks to the vision of Managing Director Patrick Flannery, who Finning News recently spoke to following the completion of its latest £35m new equipment deal with Finning:
“This industry is quite simple really, you need to put the right equipment, with the highest uptime, in the hands of the best operators.
“But for me, this simple process has now been revolutionised by technology, and thankfully we recognised the commercial advantage the bundled solutions from Finning EMSolutions could give us a number of years ago.
“From a practical delivery perspective, we now monitor the health and productivity of over 800 Caterpillar®
units, with the help of the Finning
Finsight engineering team. They use the VisionLink™ GPS technology to run a variety of reports from fuel burn to machine utilisation.
“We then feed these reports back to site managers and operators, so they have all the information they need on the health of a machine, its productivity and overall performance. This has led to a much more engaged operator community, who have also embraced other technology like Accugrade, 2D and 3D solutions on our Cat dozers.
“The machine alerts we get through the system also mean that no matter where our equipment is working, Finning can contact us, explain the problem and dispatch an engineer, who can be onsite in a matter of hours, helping us deliver industry leading uptime.
“I definitely think operated technology is the way forward, but in order to make it work, you have to engage your entire operation and people to take full commercial advantage of the information you can now have at our fingertips.”
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