Maintenance Practices
Managing Maintenance
Another company that produces digital solutions for businesses that run crews and equipment is Fleet Cost & Care.
Jack Curran, vice president of strategic accounts, said that connected operations turn field activity into measurable performance.
“ For crane owners, maintenance is not separate from operations,” said Curran.“ Equipment condition impacts availability, availability impacts dispatch, and dispatch impacts utilization, job performance, and revenue.”
The challenge, he noted, is connecting those activities, and Fleet Cost & Care has solved for this.
“ Connected operational software brings maintenance, inspections, equipment, dispatch, and field execution into the same workflow, allowing information captured in one area to drive decisions in the next,” he said.
Curran noted that that connection also creates measurable operational key performance indicators( KPIs):
• Equipment Readiness: percent of fleet ready for dispatch
• Utilization: operating / billable vs. available hours
• PM Compliance: percent of scheduled maintenance completed on time
• Unplanned Downtime: hours lost to unscheduled repairs
• Maintenance Cost: cost per asset or operating hour
• Deficiency Closure: time from identified issue to resolution
• Job Cost Performance: actual vs. planned operating costs“ The value for an organization is not simply digitizing maintenance,” noted Curran.“ It is connecting asset maintenance to the operational workflow, so crane owners can see how equipment performance affects field execution and ultimately business performance.”
A recently launched digital aid comes from Crane Inspection Checklists, LLC, a company formed by James Headley, CEO of Crane Institute of America, and Robbe Morris, a digital solutions expert with more than 17 years of experience.
Crane Inspection Checklists is a digital inspection and compliance mobile app built on the proven official checklist forms offered for decades by Crane Institute.
The app brings the expert-developed forms into a field-ready digital workflow, with references to OSHA / ASME standards in order to help crane inspectors document, store, and share inspection records, and analyze in the AI tool of their choice. Seven of the system’ s key features:
• Forms are updated as OSHA / ASME requirements change
• Relevant OSHA / ASME references appear directly in the completed PDF, including clickable OSHA
Mansfield Crane Service gives a Grove 6300L all-terrain crane a full brake inspection and tire rotation. Mansvield does 30-day DOT inspections on all of its commercial trucks and on-road cranes.
Crane Institute of America’ s new electronic crane-inspection checklists enable crane owners to complete inspections using smart phones and to keep track of the results electronically. The forms even have links to the related OSHA / ANSI standards. links to the related regulations
• The ability to export checklist data to Excel for analysis
• The ability to enter data by voice
• The ability to use the app anywhere, without Wi-Fi or cellular connection
• The ability to photograph inspected items
• 30-day free trial Users purchase licenses, and there are no setup or cancellation fees.
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October 2026 • www. cranehotline. com