6 Reasons Why You Should Connect Your Assets

By reducing idle time, you save on your overall fuel bill. A customer with a D6T that works 250 days in a year burns $5,000 in fuel while sitting idle for just a couple of hours per day. Save your business money with little effort by just reducing your idle time.

For every hour you idle, you get one hour closer to your next preventative maintenance service. A customer that works for 250 days in a year and idles for two hours more than they need, will pay for 500 hours of preventative maintenance service a year more than they should.

By connecting your asset, you can save money on your insurance premiums. Check with your insurance provider to see how much you can save on insurance by getting connected.

For every hour you idle, your asset is depreciating and your residual value is being lowered. By reducing your idle hours, you can recover the highest value possible when you go to dispose of or trade in your asset.

By connecting your asset, you will know where your asset is at all times and what fault codes are coming off your machine. This reduces the amount of time you have to send out technicians to troubleshoot machines, which in turn allows you to be more productive with your time and saves your business money.

By connecting your asset, you can see each hour that your asset is working, which means you will always be able to bill for your productive time.

No matter what type of machine you own or application you work in, connecting your asset is a decision that makes (dollars and) sense.

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