Plant and equipment management
Machinery ordering, allocation, utilisation and maintenance across sites and hire fleets — because plant that nobody can locate is plant that is not earning.
What plant management has to cover
Ordering and availability
Requesting machinery against what is genuinely available and committed, rather than negotiating it over the phone and hoping.
Allocation across sites
What is where, for how long, and what it displaces if it moves — visible to the people making the decision.
Utilisation reporting
What is actually being used and what is idle, which is usually the fastest route to reducing plant cost without reducing capability.
Maintenance and service
Scheduled by usage as well as by date, with history attached to the machine rather than held by whoever last serviced it.
Hire and off-hire
External hire tracked with dates and cost, so off-hire happens when the work finishes rather than when someone notices.
Condition and inspection
Pre-use checks and condition recorded in the field, on a phone, by the person operating the machine.
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Plant problems present as cost and turn out to be visibility
When establishing where a machine is and what state it is in takes phone calls, every downstream decision inherits that delay — hire runs on longer than the work, utilisation stays invisible, and the same item gets hired twice.
Making the register authoritative and the allocation visible removes most of it. The cost reporting that follows is straightforward once the underlying record is trustworthy.
- One register
- Authoritative, searchable by real identifiers.
- Visible allocation
- What is where, and what moving it displaces.
- Usage-based service
- Scheduled by hours as well as by date.
- History attached
- Service record travels with the machine.
- Off-hire on time
- Dates tracked rather than noticed.
- Checked in the field
- Condition recorded where the machine is.
A heavy machinery ordering service for Infrafly
For Infrafly we built an ordering service that made getting heavy machinery to a site straightforward, with availability and commitment visible rather than negotiated by phone. The hard part is the same as in any asset work: making the register trustworthy enough that people rely on it.
Common questions
Can you integrate telematics?
Yes, where the provider exposes the data. Hours and usage feeding maintenance scheduling automatically is one of the clearer wins, since it removes a manual step that is routinely skipped.
Does this cover hired-in plant as well as owned?
Yes. Hire dates and cost are tracked alongside owned assets, which is usually where the easiest savings are — off-hire happening when the work finishes rather than weeks later.
How does it fit with our finance system?
The plant register stays operationally authoritative and posts cost, depreciation and hire charges to finance. Keeping two registers in step by hand is the situation this is meant to end.
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