Tally, pen & paper and management by excel are the lowest levels of fleet maturity. It's definitely not poor method if you have the time to tally up each and every machine work hour accurately at the same time while you focus on working with the machine or fleet of machines at your or your customers' sites.
Benefits of Tally
Yes, not much of a difference in terms of tallying it up. You write down the name, type, operator, site, perhaps alleged location of the vehicle and you write down the estimated work hours. The benefit of doing it with a cloud based solution is that it's now always available anywhere and for anyone you want.
Benefits of digitalising Fleet Management
Now, we are getting to the real stuff. When you collect the soul and presence, the data of vehicle performance, you can draw a digital twin of the vehicle into a datalake. You can understand how worn out the tires are, you can see how many hours have been driven, how many bumps and crashes have been hit.
Benefits of Digital Twin of Vehicle and Fleet
Hyper automation is a buzz word and for a good reason. Finally a buzz that makes sense for common mind as well. You take the Digital Twin data, you use that to trigger actions based on pre-defined rules and you automate and optimise your business.
Benefits of Hyper Automation of Fleet