Maintenance Planning - Help Operations and Maintenance Through Preventative Maintenance Software

Maintenance is always less costly than repairs. This video explains how SM2 Maintain helps fleets add decades, even centuries worth of machine hours to the useful life of fleet vehicles, and save tons of money in the process through the magic of preventive maintenance plans.

Just like Batman, you need to plan!

Hello everyone, I’m your SM2 superfan, and today I want to address one of the major contributing factors in your fleet vehicles’ longevity and cost of ownership: maintenance plans. The importance of preventive maintenance plans cannot be overstated.

With proper maintenance, you can get years, and depending on your fleet’s size, even centuries’ worth of extra engine hours on your vehicles. A well maintained vehicle doesn’t breakdown as often (causing service interruptions, expensive repairs, and extra maintenance labor) and consumes less fuel. In SM2, we’ve made maintenance plans as flexible and easy to set up as possible.

Where we want to go today is the maintenance tab, and the item named “maintenance plans” right here.

This is where you get to define all the maintenance plans different vehicle types will follow, from basic inspections all the way to the most complex set of tasks specific to your operation.

You can base your recall triggers on all kinds of different variables and meter values such as distance travelled, engine hours, and time since the last maintenance recall. Note that you can configure as many triggers as you want for any given maintenance plan.

Ideally, you’re capturing all this data automatically using either our Equipment tracking Units or the more budget friendly Vehicle Data Units. This ensures that you avoid the “junk in, junk out” problem. But if budget doesn’t allow it, or people in your operation very rarely make mistakes when inputting data manually, then you can also feed SM2 Maintain the data it needs that way.

Once you’ve configured all the triggers you need, you select the jobs that need to be performed each time the unit is recalled.

And finally, you can define up to three notification thresholds: almost due, due, and overdue, with the values here being the percentage of the closest trigger value.

Once you hit save, your maintenance plan is active and you’ll start receiving notifications based on all the stuff you just configured.

There is no way around it: maintenance plans are a pillar of any fleet’s operation, and leaving it all to pen & paper logs and simple spreadsheets should simply not be an option. Contact us today for more information and pricing on SM2 Maintain. Thanks for watching and until next time, keep it efficient!