ConstructionWorX DIGITAL
TELEMATICS
Innovation, Telematics and a firm focus on the future Flannery Plant Hire runs its business focusing on five core values: ‘People’, ‘Safety Focus’, ‘Innovation’, ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Value’. The company consistently adapts its business to become more environmentally friendly and to keep workers across the construction industry as safe as possible. Flannery’s Strategic Plant Manager, Chris Matthew, talks to Construction Worx on how the company is embracing the digital revolution. Our goal is to make tasks safer, and often simpler, by evaluating new technical solutions, methods and processes. In our experience, innovation is the key to helping protect the people who operate and work alongside our equipment and to create day-to-day project efficiencies. This has led to our partnership with MachineMax on a state-of-the-art dashboard displaying fuel consumption, idle times and GPS tracking in real time for all of our digitally enabled plant on site. Together we are committed to pursuing ways of measuring, managing and improving fuel usage and consumption. This technology is now part of the HS2 Incubator Programme, which we believe is the perfect place to highlight its importance.
Real time, data-driven decision-making on site Before this technology, operators have been relied on to manually record their machine data and enter it into a centralised database,
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Chris Matthew, Flannery Plant Hire’s Strategic Plant Manager
which led to frequent inaccuracies in reporting. By using MachineMax, however, all information can be recorded and reported accurately and immediately. Technology such as MachineMax provides a clear, genuine oversight for any project. Through having clear visibility of work through consistent and objective data, our clients are able to make decisions on the best volume and application of plant machinery when delivering their projects. Ultimately, this leads to improved revenue, decreased operating costs and, a drastically reduced carbon footprint and, most importantly, vastly improved safety statistics. Innovation not only applies to our plant fleet but to all the vehicles we use to support our clients. On top of working with MachineMax, Flannery have created an extensive fleet of digitally enabled plant, including the Caterpillar ‘Next-Gen’ equipment and Komatsu’s ‘Intelligen’ excavators and dozers. These machines are fitted with digital technologies such as 3D GPS machine guidance and control,
