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Categories Equipment and Engine Data TrackIt Settings Trackit Talk
Created by Mark Matthews
Created on Nov 1, 2018

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Auto-update home plant for vehicles as they move between plants

With vehicles moving between plants on a regular basis, it is difficult to keep the "Home Plant" updated and current.  So we need to come up with a solution that makes it easier to maintain.  This would hopefully be an automated solution, but maybe it would require some driver interaction?

This can help the following:

  1. TrackIt Talk channels auto-updating
  2. Asset depreciation being charged to the correct plant
  3. Utilization yards at each plant


One idea is that we would update the home plant to the current "last plant" when the following occurs:

  1. A vehicle enters the geofence a plant other than its original home plant
  2. The driver clocks out for the day
  3. The next day, the driver clocks in while located inside that same (new) home plant
  4. TrackIt will then update the vehicle's home plant to the new home plant

We could even wait for 2 consecutive days of clocking in to the new home plant before we update.

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  • Keian Roudebush
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    |     Jan 3, 2019

    We would like to report off of these changes for plant & P&L allocation. Monthly, Weekly, & Daily

  • Mark Matthews
    Reply
    |     Nov 15, 2018

    So, after talking to Jason, it seems like there is a more flexible solution we could implement that will account for more scenarios.  Basically, sometimes the vehicles are not always clocking out and clocking in within a plant geofence.  So here is what we came up with.

    We will update the Home plant to be the last plant if all of the following conditions are met:

    • the vehicle's last plant is the same for 2 days (doesn't change within that time period)
    • the vehicle's last plant is different than the home plant
    • a driver has clocked in and out of that vehicle twice (on 2 different days)
      This will handle weekends.  So it doesn't count if the truck is just sitting at the same plant over the weekend.  There will be at least 2 working days for it to count.

    This way, it does not matter if the driver clocks in to the vehicle while within a plant geofence or not.

  • Jason Perry
    Reply
    |     Nov 9, 2018

    It would. If the vehicle changes plants anyway, it would make sense if it would be ticketed to make that its last plant.

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  • Mark Matthews
    Reply
    |     Nov 8, 2018

    I'm not sure.  What would the flow be?  For example: Does the driver wait to login to TrackIt until they are inside the plant?  Or do they login from home?

    If they don't clock out and clock in within the plant geofence, then I'm not sure.  We would have to somehow track that their "Last Plant" stayed the same for more than 2 days.  Then we would know they've been working out of the same "Last Plant" and that should now be the "Home Plant" 

    Would that work?

  • Jason Perry
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    |     Nov 8, 2018

    What would be the recourse for trucks that do not park in a geofence for a plant?  Our operations we let the drivers "depart yard".