ISSUE 41 NOVEMBER 2021
THE VOICE OF THE NEW ZEALAND AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
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Billing for every drop of oil A FLUID-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM GIVES WORKSHOPS AN ACCURATE WAY TO MANAGE AND CONTROL A SIGNIFICANT — AND SLIPPERY — WORKSHOP EXPENSE
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or generations, changing the oil in vehicles has involved getting under the bonnet and pouring oil from a can into the engine’s oil filler. Most of the time, billing for that oil has involved some degree of estimation. The potential for losses through lack of accurate measurement over time and through simple accounting errors is significant — and that is a drain on workshops. Now, oil-management systems, fluid-management systems, dispensing control systems — there are many different names for them — have revolutionised that process. Dispensing hoses or mobile carts with accurately metered nozzles capture all oil consumption, and that data can even be seamlessly input into the billing process. While the benefits to high-volume workshops are obvious, gaining full control over expensive lubricants and eliminating a possibly unknown loss or cost will benefit every workshop over time. One of the leaders in designing and implementing fluid-management installations,
Advance Fluid Control (AFC), has provided us with this technical overview. It describes such a system as “a service workshop system that controls and manages the dispensing of oils, coolant, windshield fluid, etc. in the workshop”. A fluid-management system has a range of features offering many benefits, including: Accuracy — Every drop of oil or other fluid is accounted for and can be billed for. Speed — The need to measure out quantities is reduced or eliminated, and better-designed equipment also reduces the opportunity for spills. Control — Dispense points are locked while not in use. They can be opened only by a user entering their personal PIN and a job or fleet number. This data is recorded in the dispense report, which is lodged after completion of the dispense. Visibility — Dispense reports sent to the system software at the completion of each dispense include data such as date and time of dispense, fluid type, dispense point number, dispensed quantity,
job or fleet number, and the technician’s name. There are no gaps in data to be chased up and filled in later, as happens in manual systems. The dispense reports can be filtered by any of the above data. For example, office staff may want to know all the fluids used for a particular job and entering the job number into the filter will bring up only the dispenses made for that job.
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