Fleet management system
AssigneeCrown Equipment Corporation
InventorTimothy A. Wellman
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Abstract
Systems of hardware and software are provided for enabling mobile assets to communicate across a wireless network environment. Systems, computer-implemented methods and computer program products are also provided for leveraging wireless communication and/or processing capabilities of mobile assets against a robust software solution to implement enterprise wide asset management functions, to integrate mobile asset data into existing enterprise workflows and/or to enable trusted third party integration into the enterprise for enhanced asset and/or workflow management.
Claims20
A method of implementing an inspection checklist for materials handling vehicles comprising:
- prompting an operator to answer a plurality of checklist items in a checklist;
- and
- performing an operator response verification for a designated checklist item in the checklist, by:
- submitting a query across a vehicle network by a processor, to at least one component of the materials handling vehicle to obtain information associated with whether the operator performed an inspection as required by the designated checklist item;
- verifying by the processor, based upon the information obtained as a result of the query, whether the operator performed the inspection in order to obtain the received response to the designated checklist item;
- and
- taking a predetermined action in response to the verification indicating that the operator did not perform the inspection corresponding to the designated checklist item.
A method of implementing an inspection checklist for materials handling vehicles comprising:
- prompting an operator to answer a plurality of checklist items in a checklist;
- and
- performing an operator response verification for a designated checklist item in the checklist, by:
- submitting a query across a vehicle network by a processor, to at least one component of the materials handling vehicle to obtain information that is associated with a received response to the designated checklist item;
- verifying by the processor, based upon the information obtained as a result of the query, whether the operator performed the inspection corresponding to the designated checklist item;
- and
- taking a predetermined action in response to the verification indicating that the operator did not perform the inspection in order to obtain the received response to the designated checklist item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.