Wear and tear control
We are meeting with Jan-Erik in Västerås, where Hercules has one of the country’s many maintenance stations. He points to one of the largest machines, a concrete piling machine with a hammer weighing in at five tons.
– This machine hammers one million times a year, he says and gives examples of the types of environments it is used in.
Hercules Grundläggning is a wholly owned subsidiary of NCC and rents out machinery to their owners and to external projects. The machine park contains machines for advanced piling, support structures, soil reinforcement, drilling and special assignments such as groundwater lowering and jet grouting. All in all, 30-something large and heavy machines, of which, the cement piling machine is one.
Tailoring provides the right conditions
For over 10 years, Hercules has cooperated with TelliQ for fleet management and work order solutions.
– Having so many machines and jobs all over the country, the machine park needs to be online so we can monitor productivity, downtime, where our machines are and when it’s time to service them, Jan-Erik explains.
There are many different makes in the machine park. Most have their own version of CAN-bus (Control Area Network) for their machine system.
– We have ten to twelve different machine types. We want their systems to have similar conditions so we can make comparisons. And they do, thanks to the numerous adaptations TelliQ has made for us.
Idling is an important key indicator that Hercules wants to control. Another is production time – a parameter that can be improved according to Jan-Erik.
– Even if a lot of hours are spent on transporting and servicing machines, there is nonetheless an untapped potential to increase production time. We need to develop this.
