Member Benefits > Fleetwatcher™ Wireless Construction Management System

Larry Baker
Earthwave Technologies, Inc.
800-553-0027
513-290-0140 mobile (preferred)
www.fleetwatcher.com
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Fleetwatcher: What it means for your business:

What would it mean for your business if you could:

• know exactly how much each piece of equipment ran and worked on each project every day?
• accurately bill equipment usage to each job?
• increase equipment and operator productivity by 5%? 10%? 20%?
• reduce the time to complete a job by 5% 10% 20%?
• reduce equipment down time and repair costs by 5% 10%?
• reduce your fleet and/or your rental expense by 5% 10%?
• improve your estimating accuracy with accurate historical usage data?
• win more business because of lower equipment and labor costs?
• you could get profit margins back to double digits in 2006?

It can be done! Fleetwatcher has helped many contractors realize all fo these benefits and more.

What problems it solves: On its own, Fleetwatcher only solves one problem, but it's a big one; the problem every contractor has collecting accurate, timely information about the activity, utilization and location of its fleet. And it is a problem that effects almost everyone throughout your organization...and your bottom line.

This problem is magnified by the dependency on the manual processes that require field personnel to report on the activity and use of their time and of the equipment. So as hard as you try, even the best contractors can't get the timely accurate information necessary to measure, cost and manage their equipment and their jobs.

In a study performed by the CFMA in 2001, they reported that between 1990 and 2000 construction costs went up, across teh board, by 27%!! The study also showed that over that same period revenues stayed the same. As a result profit margins across the industry plummeted from 16-18% in 1990 to 1-2% in 2000, and the trend has continued into this decade.

What are these costs that have all but eliminated the ability to make a reasonable profit? Equipment, fuel, service/repairs and labor account for the majority of the costs. And the fact that in your industry, these costly assets (equipment) and expenses (labor) are remote and mobile, make them much more difficult, if not impossible to accurately monitor, measure and manage.

That is the problem Fleetwatcher solves. By eliminating the manual systems that track equipment use and activity with "technology", Fleetwatcher provides the people in your organization with the accurate, timely facts about equipment use, activity and in some cases productivity, that empowers them to manage these high priced assets and expenses, providing a path back to the profit margins of 1990.

What it does: Each Fleetwatcher unit tracks and transmits how much that equipment runs evey day, how much it "works" every day, equipment location and load counts on certain equipment. The Fleetwatcher unit wirelessly transmits this infomation to a website for ease of access and ease of use.

The Fleetwatcher sofware modules (Project Management, Equipment Utilization, Maintenance and GPS Location Modules) turns that data into timely, useful management information that can help your people in the field, in the shop and in the office do their job more effectively, efficiently and ultimately more profitably.

What it is: Fleetwatcher is a unique wireless Construction Management System. It consists of a "black box" that is installed on your equipment, a wireless network and an extensive but easy to use set of management reports.

Fleetwatcher began as a wireless hourmeter that was developed in early 2000 for a Caterpillar Forklift dealer to help them perform PM services on their rental fleet. A chance meeting with a Heavy Highway contractor from Dayton OH in April of that year shifted Earthwave's focus from forklifts to heavy equipment. Five years later, with tens of thousands of hours of experience in the field, Fleetwatcher's features, functionality and value are the results of the feedback, input and requests of our customers, heavy equipment contractors like you. It is a product that has been designed by equipment managers, shop managers, superintendents, controllers, operations managers and owners to help them solve the problems that they and you face every day.

Get Fleetwatcher and get better control of your equipment, your projects, your cost and your profitability.

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