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Truck and Track
Summer 2019
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BATTERY MANAGEMENT
Improve your operational costs
The UK’s dynamic political environment looks unlikely to
change in the immediate future and one focus for businesses
is to keep a very keen eye on unnecessary expenditure. The
battery management team at Rotronics works closely with
fleet owners and managers to help improve their operational
costs.
Ken Clark, Managing Director at Rotronics, told Truck and Track
that they have noticed heightened activity to improve expenditure
with battery management and operational practices, ensuring
that budgets are being controlled more prudently with proactive
battery management.
A well-managed battery maintenance programme can combat
the excessive drain on vehicles - at every opportunity, the batteries
on vehicles should be tested and charged and fleet managers can
build this process into normal workshop practices without any
disruption.
Says Ken Clark, “The workshops using our Battery Management
Programme, which have seen the best improvements, keep
charging trolleys in every pit. They charge the vehicles at every
opportunity and batteries are tested at least every month. These
workshops see fantastic improvements and have cut non-starts by
up to 75%.”
A battery management programme ensures that:
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Return-on-investment can be proved, and each workshop will
have the expertise and knowledge to maximise fault diagnosis,
increase productivity and customer service.
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A full auditable record is available to monitor and track a fleet’s
battery performance.
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Batteries are tested pro-actively, at the point of service and
routine inspection.
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Imbalanced batteries are identified and charged accordingly.
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Batteries are maintained to optimum levels.
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Defective batteries are identified and replaced before they affect
vehicle reliability.
ROBIS
Rotronics has recently developed ROBIS, the industry-first web-
based dashboard and reporting system that collects battery and
electrical data from several national/regional workshop sources to
update software across the fleet. The Rotronics team is currently
working with major national commercial and fleet operators.
A workshop that invests in battery
maintenance equipment is making a great
start to improve vehicle performance and
increase battery performance. However,
the benefits can only be achieved if
the equipment is used as part of a pro-
active and regular maintenance service
maintenance process.
Benefits to your business with ROBIS
A significant benefit of using ROBIS is that
non-starts will reduce, which in turn saves
workshops money by bringing down their
battery budgets due to decreasing roadside
defects. The battery performance across
a fleet will be improved and warranty
processes can easily be streamlined as
ROBIS
provides
under-the-microscope
data regarding battery performance.
ROBIS will deliver proven ROI, supporting
any
workshop
battery
management
programme and will provide uniform
testing practices across your business.
ROBIS will reap benefits for your customers
when lost miles are reduced and you will
not incur delivery penalties.