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Measure, monitor and manage with VisionLink® Productivity
By Caterpillar | Posted: August 5th 2024
Measure, monitor and manage with VisionLink® Productivity
Every jobsite engages in production. However, productivity remains a challenge for many construction businesses. Low productivity means low revenue which directly impacts profitability. So to help businesses measure, monitor and manage assets to maximise jobsite efficiency, Caterpillar has developed VisionLink® Productivity.
VisionLink Productivity is an easy-to-use, cloud-based platform that gathers, analyses and summarises machine telematics and jobsite data from equipment on- and off-site, regardless of its brand. As its name suggests, VisionLink Productivity helps improve productivity, but there's more to this technology than that.
For site managers, owners and operators, it’s important to understand how assets are being utilised and how operations are flowing. VisionLink Productivity delivers a deeper level of actionable insights. These allow users to manage changes and make improvements across the jobsite such as:
- Improving site productivity
- Lowering cost per tonne
- Improving fleet utilisation
- Lowering fleet costs
- Decreasing idle time
- Reducing fuel burn
For many businesses, VisionLink Productivity is a welcome relief. It means they no longer need to manually compile data – a time-consuming process that’s far from airtight (and far from enjoyable).
DI.MA Ltd. is an Italian company that recovers waste materials and turns them into construction products.
“We produce industry-certified aggregates for use in construction. Particularly for concrete batching plants, asphalt plants, construction sites, road works and large logistics,” explains DI.MA Chairman Paolo Ottonelli.
Working in a very competitive market, it’s incredibly important that DI.MA has clear visibility of the costs attached to each tonne of product it sells. That's why DI.MA became an early adopter three years ago.
VisionLink Productivity helps DI.MA know where events such as payload and dumping occur. “It’s very important to understand where, and in which phases of the process, resources are used,” said DI.MA Condition Monitoring and Digital Services Developer, Andrea Bresciani.
Using VisionLink Productivity, DI.MA can track material movement between processing, plant and stockpiles. It can then track when and where the material is loaded onto trucks and taken to customers. Using the cost dashboard, DI.MA can also track how much it costs to do all this. It allows the team to make the changes required to help drive down their cost per tonne.
“The use of VisionLink Productivity allows us to assess where we have leakages or inefficiencies and therefore improve our production cycle,” said DI.MA Technical Director, Gian Luca Gamba. “We can then make decisions based on scientific data.”
The VisionLink Productivity interface is easy to use despite the complex activity going on behind the screen. Businesses can now understand volumes of data at just a glance. As Commercial Caterpillar Consultant, Michael Miller explains “This simple intuitive online tool visually represents all the data, everything that’s happening on your jobsite. You can set up simple reports to have all that information delivered straight to your inbox,”.
Want to get started with VisionLink Productivity? Contact your local Cat dealer or visit cat.com.
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