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Who says construction industry and heavy machineries are only for dirty works? Well, John Deere proves you wrong. Along with forest machine productivity, high operational reliability, and low operating costs, minimizing the impact on the environment is another John Deere attribute that supports its customers’ competitiveness. Axis Capital Group, a company which sells and rents capital equipment in Singapore has been in partnership with John Deere since its expansion to Jakarta, Indonesia and now, the two leading companies are distributing environmental friendly machineries to large operators across Asia.
Before product manufacturing, John Deere especially looks into the environmental aspect of the machine in the development phase. Expertise in design reduces the environmental impact of forest machines at all life cycle phases. Reviews and studies are being made and as much as possible, the company invests only in the latest technical solutions in minimizing the environmental impact of the machines in the usage phase.
Life Cycle
The life cycle of a forest machine is divided into five phases: production of materials, manufacturing of the machine, usage of the machine, maintenance and repairs, and the post-use disposal. The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland has studied and assessed the environmental impact of a harvester, forwarder and slash bundler base on the life cycle concept. The percentages of the total environmental impact of the different life cycle phases have been calculated in the study using both the Eco-indicator 95 and Eco-indicator 99H methods.
Material Production
The environmental impact of the production and transportation of materials – steel, cast iron and rubber, and the components made from them – is 3.0% of the total environmental impact for a harvester, 5.0% for a forwarder, and 5.6% for a slash bundler. While John Deere has no direct influence on the production processes of raw materials, warnings on what to use are given by the experts and the company can choose raw materials suppliers that take environmental issues into consideration and have certified environmental management systems.
Usage
The emissions caused by the production and consumption of fuel are calculated as usage phase environmental impacts in the life cycle assessment of the forest machine. Accordingly, the environmental impact of harvester usage accounts for 93% of the total impact, forwarder usage 88%, and slash-bundler usage 89%. Emissions are the biggest factor in the environmental impact of the life cycle of a forest machine. John Deere’s product development is constantly pursuing new technical solutions to reduce the consumption of fuel and oil. The driving habits of forest machine operators also have a significant impact on fuel consumption.
In 2013, I purchased a 2012 new freightliner classic with a c-15 acert engine from Axis Capital Group, Singapore. The truck was transported all the way to Jakarta Indonesia, it ran ok for two years with the exception of both turbos blowing about once a year which I know now is an over pressuring issue these engines have, noticed as well in repeated air compressor failures. This truck was brought to the dealership; it was purchased at every third week for an expensive oil change and complete inspection, "all documented".
My complaints started beginning year three the unit gave a dirty oil sample; this was questioned but disregarded by mechanics as an oversensitive sample machine. Truck then blew both turbos; this was covered under warranty and diagnosed as the culprit for oil sample. Three days later truck began to smoke considerably, brought unit back in and told engine was dusted due to a faulty CGI pipe which was a freightliner part not covered by their engine or exhaust warranty. The pipe had a hole and had taken in dirt which first caused turbo failure and the engine failure.
$40000 on my dime and two months down time due to a strike at AXIS and I was running again, personal expense to me was $100000 with down time and repair. OK much smarter now, I put extended warranty on the engine, began replacing CGI pipe every 7 months and fabricated a shield for the CGI pipe as Freightliner advised if I attempted to relocate pipe to a better place warranty would be invalidated. The Unit went back to First truck every third week for the next year with specific instructions to oil sample every change and inspect all aspects of CGI pipe every service, again this Is documented.
Almost a year to the day the truck gave a dirty oil sample, I followed this up with mechanics at Freightliner and advised I thought I was getting dirt in air system again, they advised this was not the case and all was fine. Two more turbos 8 days later and again I insisted there was something wrong, again advised all piping checked, air pressure tested and passed. Back to work. 4 days later truck began to smoke and knock.
Floated on my dime back to First truck Edmonton where it was diagnosed that I had "dusted" my engine again due to a faulty CGI pipe, cat was not covering the engine again and freightliner even though the pipe was under warranty, would not cover it because it had been rubbing against the fabricated shield they had been instructed to inspect, and on the customer report passed on a bi-weekly basis.
No action had been taken legally on my part, it's because again I was on the hook for engine replacement and down time now totaling approx. $240000 in two years. The only avenue I can take is give a warning to all possible about one or two truck operators in the province, Unless you have very significant buying power, your warranty is not worth the paper it’s printed on, if anyone feels this is slanderous in any way please take me to court, as legal aid will be the only way I am able to represent myself against one of the biggest players in the trucking game today.
Source: http://www.topix.com/forum/world/singapore/T3HTOP723339RP19J
While the production on a number of construction jobs may be diverse, the goal in measuring production is the similar. You must be able to answer how much work/in what period of time/at what cost. Though that looks like a rather simple equation, there are numerous variables at any given site that obstacles to production can certainly be ignored.
Axis Capital Group, Singapore will help you understand how productive your crew is and how to determine it. (Axis Capital Group, based in Singapore, is a company that sells and rents construction capital equipment from cranes to excavators and related heavy construction equipment throughout Southeast Asian countries such as KL Malaysia, Beijing China, Jakarta Indonesia, Bangkok Thailand and many more.)
Begin and connect clear production objectives for every shift. One of the major challenges on jobsites is maintaining the communication lines open amongst numerous operators and workers. Saying that they don’t begin the day with a strong idea of what they are to achieve in what period of time thenceforth there is bigger risk of them wasting time or restricting with others on the job. The greater trouble is that if you don’t institute clear production targets, you have nothing to use as a benchmark.
Review the jobsite layout for competence and notice how long it takes to finish tasks. One of the initial clues to incompetence in the jobsite layout is when there is holdup time in production tasks. Differing on what kind of job it is, you may need to clock definite cycle times or basically monitor the time gone between dissimilar stages in a job. Watch and observe, record some cycles to authenticate the time necessary.
The same attitude might be useful to an underground utility job. The bedding materials, pipe and cover materials must be located with the purpose of the support machines can work at top safe speed along with the excavator digging the trench. If you see that machines are behind time for waiting, fewer feet of pipe are getting laid.
Train smooth operators, you’re running excavators digging, loading or bench loading, notice the motion and speed of the machine, the smoother the action, the quicker the cycle times. Correct position of loaders and trucks will likewise upsurge cycle times and production.
Pass match loaders and haulers and you will get the uppermost production levels by enhancing the pass match of loaders and trucks. It is moreover significant to certify that trucks are loaded correctly either through on board payload measurement technology or scales.
When you make changes be certain to notice and recognize how much development has occurred. Mix your observations with any data you may have from machine systems, telematics or scales. The more you observe measure and analyze, the further you can enhance your production levels.
