SHOP OPERATIONS
38 Fleet Maintenance | October 2018
leets can take advantage of advances in vehicle
telematics, wireless connectivity and cloud-based
data storage to improve the way vehicles are
monitored, diagnosed and maintained. Th anks
to this emerging technology known as remote
diagnostics, vehicle downtime can be reduced
signifi cantly.
Modern vehicles have the ability to access thousands
of fault codes and performance measures
from a variety of systems such as the engine,
transmission and brakes. Remote diagnostics
allow fl eets to observe this vehicle data in real
time from virtually anywhere, resulting in a host
of benefi ts for fl eets:
Continuously monitored vehicle performance
to identify “symptoms” of a looming “illness”
Shift to a proactive, condition-based maintenance
schedule as opposed to an interval
based schedule
How remote
diagnostics can
help solve the
uptime challenge
Emerging technology is allowing fl eet
technicians and service partners to monitor
vehicle health, and even make certain
repairs from anywhere and at any time.
By Gregg Wartgow, Contributing Editor
» Remote diagnostics data fed from a vehicle’s
telematics device to Navistar’s OnCommand
Connection software can be accessed several ways.
The most common is through a web browser.
Photo courtesy of Navistar
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