Know Your Productivity Numbers

Is your fleet productive? Here’s how you can find out.

1. Determine on-shift availability. Your fleet’s productivity depends on your ability to keep each piece of equipment “on duty.” What percent of time is a key unit, such as a loader, available during a work shift?
2. To get overall fleet productivity, multiply the average loader availability times the hauler availability. For instance, if the average hauler availability is 90 percent, and the loader availability is also 90 percent, then the fleet availability is 90 percent X 90 percent—or 81 percent. When all the equipment is operating, it will produce at a higher rate. When the loading tool goes down, the production drops to zero.

Hard and fast numbers
Of course there are many variables worth exploring. Whether you are preparing an estimate for a new fleet or re-evaluating your current operations, Caterpillar’s^® Fleet Production and Cost Analysis (FPC) software program makes cost analysis and fleet planning easy to compute.

FPC models performance data based on a variety of loader/hauler fleets working in varying haul conditions. Choose matching conditions or a mix of potential environments and easily calculate long-term productivity, cost, and time required for each fleet to do the job.

Contact your Cat Dealer for more information on Caterpillar’s Fleet Production and Cost Analysis program.