If your company needs access equipment to carry out its various tasks and ensure maximum efficiency, it is prudent to carry out a mid-year review of your equipment’s performance to avoid costly delays.
Whether you’re looking to purchase or hire access equipment, this review can be beneficial in helping you ensure that your operation continues to deliver with peak efficiency.
Equipment Maintenance
Maintaining your equipment throughout the year is crucial to ensuring safety and minimising downtime. The mid-year review is a good time to inspect and service all equipment, checking for things like wear and tear and lubrication, and oftentimes, replacing worn-out components.
It’s also important to make sure all safety features are functioning as they should and that the equipment continues to meet industry safety standards and regulations. Be sure to take the opportunity to ensure that all of your maintenance activities are recorded in detail to address any recurring issues promptly.
Upgrades
Some of your equipment may require a few upgrades and technological advancements to improve its efficiency and safety. The mid-year review is a good chance to assess the current technology you have in your fleet and evaluate its performance so you can identify where new technology can be implemented to improve operations.
Various upgrades might be available, with newer models offering advanced features for greater energy efficiency or enhanced performance and safety.
Mid-year reviews are the perfect time to plan how to integrate this new technology into your existing fleet and train staff on the new upgrades.
Fleet Expansion
Expanding or optimising your fleet can help you make sure that you meet the growing demand on your business’s schedule and that you can improve operational efficiencies.
During your mid-year review, it’s advised that you analyse the utilisation patterns of your current equipment so that you can determine if there are any underutilised assets or any gaps in capacity that need to be filled with the purchase or hire of new equipment.
This should be done in conjunction with a forecast of demand, which is based not only on market conditions but also on your order book of future projects, to determine whether the expansion of your fleet is necessary and, if so, by how much.
If you have determined that you are in need of new access equipment, contact Sterling Access today. We sell brand-new machines and offer access equipment hire services.
