Utilization, running hours, service due and cost per operating hour, across owned, rented and subcontracted machines. Terminals, quarries, mines and heavy construction, on top of the trackers you already run.
The category
Fleet management software keeps track of the machines you run: where they are, how many hours they have done, what they cost to run, and when they are due for service. Most of the market was built for trucking, where the fleet drives on public roads and the hard problems are GPS, fuel cards and driver compliance.
A heavy operation is a different shape. Straddle carriers that never leave the terminal, haul trucks that only run inside the pit, forklifts and reach trucks in the warehouse, and an excavator rented for six weeks that has to be handed back. Half of it has a tracker fitted and half of it does not. Fleet is one of the categories in Opsima's industrial software range.
The gap
Your trackers say a machine was running, and the yard says it sat waiting for a crew.
Rented machines are invisible in the system, so nobody can compare their cost against the owned fleet.
Services come due on dates rather than hours, so the hardest-worked machine gets seen last.
Utilization gets rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet every month, and the number is stale before the meeting.
Trackers answer where and how fast. Past a certain size the questions become how much, how well used, and what it cost per hour of real work. That jump is what this page is about.
Capabilities
Nine areas, grouped around the way a heavy fleet actually runs instead of around a list of features.
Hours worked against hours available, machine by machine and site by site. On a spreadsheet, the unit that runs eleven hours a day looks much like the one that moves twice a week. Here it does not, so the case for moving it, renting it out or selling it makes itself.
Working, idle, standing, in the shop or off hire, across every yard and site you run. One picture that the quay, the pit and the workshop all read the same way, instead of three views that disagree by the end of the shift.
Rented machines usually live in an email thread and a hire agreement, which is why nobody can say what they really cost. Here they sit in the same list as the owned fleet, with the hire period and day rate attached, and drop off it when they go back.
Meters read off the machine where a tracker provides them, and captured by the crew where it does not. Services come due on hours actually worked rather than on a date somebody picked, so the machine that ran double shifts all month gets seen first.
Operator, machine and shift tied together, so damage and downtime can be traced back to what was happening at the time. Training and licence expiry sit on the same record, which matters the day an inspector asks who was cleared to drive it.
Samsara, Geotab, OEM telematics and whatever came fitted to the machine all write into one place. The point of a tracker is the record it leaves behind, so the feed lands next to the work orders and running hours instead of in a separate dashboard.
Walk-arounds and pre-shift checks done on a phone at the machine. Faults raised from a check turn into work, and the work gets tracked until it closes, so the trail is there when a regulator or an insurer asks for it.
Fuel, parts, labor and hire charges divided by the hours the machine actually worked. Availability, breakdown rate and cost per hour all come off the same records the crews already feed, so operations and finance stop arriving with different spreadsheets.
SAP, Oracle and the systems around them stay your main record. Opsima reads what they hold, writes clean fleet data back, and lets IT review and sign off the rollout in staging before anything goes live.
The difference
Telematics platforms handle the connected part well. The unit reports position, engine hours and fault codes, and the dashboard draws the chart. In a terminal or a quarry, that is the easy half of the fleet.
A straddle carrier stands for three hours because the gang it needed was working another vessel. A dozer is pulled off the face early and the reason gets explained at handover. A rented excavator arrives with damage nobody logs until the hire company invoices for it. The engine data for all three looks unremarkable, and every one of those events changes what the machine cost you.
Opsima picks up those events from the channels your crews already use and writes them to the machine record, next to the telemetry. That is why utilization stops disagreeing with what the yard saw, and why an untracked forklift still ends up with real hours and a real history.
In the field
Taavura's Earth Moving Division runs the same layer across quarries and infrastructure sites, after ERP integrations and standard fleet systems had already failed to stick with field crews. Maintenance, operations, IT and engineering all read one picture, and nobody had to change how they report.
Delivery
Samsara, Geotab and your OEM telematics stay exactly where they are. Opsima reads what they already produce, adds the operational layer around it, and feeds clean records back into the ERP. Nothing gets ripped out, and IT signs off the rollout in staging before it goes live.
Sometimes the fleet system is the thing holding you back: hard to change, expensive to touch. Opsima builds the replacement around your machines and the way your crews work. It runs on your servers or ours. Working software ships in weeks, and you pay once it earns its place.
Goes deeper
Lifecycle cost, parts buying and compliance across every site.
Live status across mixed fleets, sites and shifts.
Fixing on condition, before it breaks, instead of on a calendar.
SAP, Maximo, Navis, telematics and the rest of your systems.
FAQ
Bring one fleet where utilization never quite matches what the yard sees. We build it on your real data and run it with you. You pay only after it goes live.