Technical asset management for vehicle fleets
Irrespective of whether your vehicle fleet is operating in local or long-haul traffic, or is transporting people or goods, the most important commercial goals remain the same: a high level of operational reliability and equipment availability at minimum operating costs. Complex requirements, such as the reduction of life-cycle costs, can therefore only be achieved by fleet operators, vehicle manufacturers, maintenance engineers and investors by using a complex vehicle management system.
PC-Soft GmbH has been developing and managing software solutions for demanding projects within fleet management since 1995. Our zedas®asset software solution has been adapted to modern vehicle fleets and combines the following function blocks:
- Control and planning of maintenance measures
- Condition monitoring and industrial data collection
- Handling of warranty services
- LCC/ RAMS - validation
- Initiation of operations
Our customers receive a tool for managing their fixed assets, for maintenance planning and control and for plant and process optimization. In particular, the maintenance and condition monitoring modules are equipped with highly sophisticated functions specific to the industry:
Maintenance control and planning - tracking of warranty times and warranty types at the component level
- recognition of weak points at the place of installation and tracing of serial errors
- maintaining documentation and executing rolling techniques
- configuration management for vehicles/ components
- condition monitoring and industrial data collection
- mobile data acquisition and diagnostics system
- recording and evaluation of status data, operating data and error
data for maintenance condition monitoring and rule-based triggering of
actions
- evaluation and classification of the data before transmission by the mobile client in the vehicle
To completely utilize the enormous optimisation potential of the Asset Lifecycle Management, the total life-cycle of the vehicle is mapped and tracked in zedas®asset - from production to scrapping. This incorporates the manufacturer, investor, operator, maintenance engineer and lessor into the process and all those involved are able to optimize the vehicle from the most varied aspects based on a consistent and wide-ranging stock of data. Access rights are assigned by zedas®asset.
Commercial benefits - reduction of maintenance costs and other LCC
- claims for damages by checking the promises made by the manufacturer regarding LCC / RAMS
- monitoring of operational parameters (operating hours, mileage)
Benefits seen from the point of view of technical management - minimisation of downtimes and downtimes caused by technical faults
- improvement in vehicle safety and reliability
- assistance with the obligation to produce verification of compliance with safety instructions
- diagnostics data can be automatically incorporated into maintenance planning
Benefits seen from the point of view of the maintenance engineer - correlation between fault effect and cause of failure
- improved manpower planning of own and external staff and services
- ability to make predictions regarding outage performance, maintenance costs and lifetime
- setting maintenance strategies based on sound economics
- ability to compare the costs and performance of various objects
Benefits for the industry
The consistent cooperation of all those involved, from the manufacturer to the maintenance engineer, will considerably reduce the life-cycle costs of the vehicle in the long-term and will thereby contribute to an improvement in the competitiveness of both rail and passenger transport.
We maintain and continuously develop zedas®asset as a highly-scalable standard software solution. Current and detailed information, such as: - examples of usage and publications on this topic, and
- a link to your direct contact for this topic
are located in the column on the right of this page. Another product in our range for vehicle fleets is vips®/carsis. As a partial component within the total solution provided by zedas®asset, vips®/carsis contains the maintenance and system management functions. You can find additional information on this at www.vipscarsis.com | 
