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Fleet Maintenance and Management
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Cost of Service Analysis
"Is your fleet operation cost effective?" Measuring the cost of fleet
services and determining whether costs can be reduced or if investments need to be
made is critical to properly allocating increasingly limited dollars. For fleet operations,
calculating true maintenance costs, overhead allocations, and internal labor costs
can be a daunting and time-consuming effort. MPS has the tools to help you understand
fleet costs on a unit basis in a way that will allow you make better decisions on
how to provide services economically and efficiently.
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The development of a logically structured and rigorously enforced PM program is
the key element in an effective fleet maintenance program. Any PM program should
be designed to reflect the specific maintenance requirements of individual fleet
units and enable the maintenance operation to identify and correct minor defects
before they become more costly and time consuming repairs. In order to be effective,
the program must also ensure that units are brought to the shop at the appropriate
service intervals while minimizing the disruption to daily operations. MPS can help
you design and implement a program that will give you better control over your maintenance
costs.
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School districts run on school buses. Planning to replace the bus fleet is a key
job for every transportation and business manager. Making sure your fleet is safe,
appropriately sized to meet the needs of your operation, cost effective to maintain,
and that utilizes the best available technology to control vehicle emissions are
all key elements in the bus replacement planning process.
MPS has designed a replacement planning service that demonstrates the importance
of replacement planning by showing the tradeoff between maintenance and replacement
expenditures. Our service includes the development of a long term projection of replacement
costs and can also include an analysis of alternative financing options that can
help your district get the buses you need when you need them. Click
here to see the output of a previous replacement analysis.
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Maintenance Outsourcing Analysis
"Should we outsource our maintenance program?" is a frequent question
asked when struggling with tight budgets. Answering this question requires more than
a simple comparative cost analysis. Understanding the operational tradeoffs of outsourcing
or privatizing maintenance is at least as important as knowing if cost savings can
be realized.
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Fleet Maintenance Software Analysis
Navigating the maze of technology available to fleet operations is a complex and
difficult endeavor at best and a can result in costly mistakes later if not done
properly. MPS specializes in understanding and defining your information technology
needs and filtering the array of choices to identify the best system for your operation.
We begin by helping you develop the clear vision of how you will use the system to
improve operations so you can receive the highest possible value from the system.
These needs are translated into specific service specifications to avoid the "reverse
engineering" that so often happens when a technology product is bought without
a clear understanding.
MPS can assist you with the identification of and development of specifications for:
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Maintenance management packages |
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Data analysis and report development |
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GIS and GPS technology |
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Fuel management technology |
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AVL and event data recorders (black boxes) |
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Fleet Maintenance Facility Analysis
Experience suggests that, over time, a facilityís "form" may not change,
but the "functions" performed in them do, creating conditions that are
less than effective, less than efficient, and perhaps unsafe. Our service includes
an analysis of workforce, equipment needs, material needs, administrative practices,
and the strategic and departmental adjacencies, space allocations, and work area
assignments. Each of these elements are analyzed to understand the extent to which
they are constrained by the physical characteristics and limitations of existing
facilities. Our approach to evaluating facilities is based on the theory that the
facility is an extension of the operation and must support both the transportation
management and fleet maintenance program.
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Fleet Utilization Analysis
"Do we have too many vehicles for support services? Too few? The right types
of vehicles?" These are questions that are frequently asked by administrative
and elected officials. How do you answer these questions accurately without adversely
impacting service delivery? Analyzing fleet utilization is more than just eliminating
the vehicles with the lowest mileage.
MPS' fleet utilization analysis can help you identify any under-utilized units that
can be safely eliminated from the fleet. The primary benefit of this analysis is
a reduction in both the current operating costs and future replacement costs for
the fleet. Click here to see a sample output from a previous utilization analysis
project.
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