Krinkle’s Heavy Equipment “Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®” System Presented at National Caterpillar Dealer Conference to Wide Acclaim
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Date: October 21, 2019
Krinkle’s heavy equipment “Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®” system was presented at the national Caterpillar dealer conference to wide acclaim.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, September 17, 2019: Krinkle’s Senior business analyst, Glenn Kletzky, presented their new rebuild process tracking system (Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®) at this year’s Western Region Meeting for CAT dealers and their IT people (WRIT 2019 in Las Vegas).
Process tracking for every step in heavy equipment component rebuilding (such as Engines, Torque converters, Transmissions, etc.) is something every rebuild center wants but few have achieved. This is due to the administrative burden prior systems placed on the technician staff, the acquisition cost of such systems, and the sheer complexity of those aging systems. Krinkle’s presentation focused on Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®’s ability to accomplish full rebuild tracking for heavy equipment, no matter the brand (caterpillar, John Deere, Komatsu, etc.), the size of the facility, or the language needed by its users.
Krinkle demonstrated its solution to a variety of data visibility problems and administrative burdens which are common to heavy equipment rebuild centers. These costly challenges negatively impact the entire operation. He showed how Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® solves these major issues. Some capabilities he demonstrated were:
1. Being able to easily see the multiple stages and locations of all work in progress (WIP) at a moment’s notice
2. Easily accessing meaningful management reports and dashboards that are used to guide a shop’s daily work priorities
3. Easily performing parts-level inspections at the Quality Control area which then automate the necessary customer-facing reports and parts ordering lists
4. Showing how the average technician’s involvement in the data capture effort on a mobile device only takes about 15 seconds per occasional interaction, thus leaving them to their important work of rebuild
“Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® has the ability to keep track of every major and minor step of a rebuild center's lengthy rebuild process with minimal impact on the workers. It effortlessly tracks everything from the arrival of the main component to shipping back to the customer and over 40 stages in between; it has become an indispensable tool to our clients and they openly talk about the return on investment they receive from it every day,” Glenn stated.
Additionally, the presentation reviewed Krinkle’s integration to other systems that component rebuild centers already have or desperately need. For example, Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® has already been integrated into Modern®, a customer service information system popular to dealerships nationwide. It can also be integrated into DBS, MS Dynamix, a shop scheduling system, and more. These previously burdensome or non-existent capabilities can now be fed data directly from Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®, reducing effort and complexity.
Finally, he spoke about the system’s natural ability to visualize many key performance indicators (KPIs) of the shop. These KPIs can be about individual employees, the team as a whole, or even the performance or work on specific makes and models of component types. The insight provided to management, that was previously invisible to them, allows them to focus on and continuously improve their efficiency in specific areas where customer satisfaction and profit can be increased.
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Announcing Krinkle's Premium LDAR Compliance Software: Krinkle LDAR Tracker Pro®
Krinkle LDAR Tracker Pro®, Krinkle’s newest version of its premier LDAR tracking software and reporting system, reduces the time, cost and effort to secure auditable compliance in your 0000a and state regulation program. Not only is it easy to learn, but it also drives your workforce (in house or sub-contractors!) to collect the right data and stay on schedule. It comes standard with many critical and useful reports like the EPA required report, a report showing the status of all leaks and many more, ensuring you are always in compliance and audit-ready.
Krinkle’s LDAR Tracker Pro® is a mobile app and back-office suite of tools that uses a radically improved and simplified approach to these complex and mandatory regulations. The original version was introduced to the market 4 years ago and our pro version takes it to the next level, by enabling seamless work order sharing.
Krinkle LDAR Tracker Pro®’s state of the art approach (Shared Work Orders) allows for work orders to be assigned directly to an LDAR Inspector’s mobile device as an initiating step. The “Shared Work Order” system automatically pushes the initial work order forward to all the subsequent users who need it (repair people, then verifiers, etc.), simply by detecting when the previous step is complete. No more phone calls, coordination meetings, excel files and forgotten or lost next steps. The chain-link of “next step” responsibility remains unbroken and always visible to the workers and their managers alike. This level of data awareness via reports, dashboard views and the mobile app itself extend to client executives as well, who must decide how to handle leaks recommended for “Delay of Repair”.
The mobile app only shows each individual user the work orders assigned to them. With a simple touch, the app then guides each of its users, step by step, through their respective workflow and only asks for information that is relevant to their current role (inspector, repair tech, etc.). Return on investment, ease of training, and ease of use cannot be overstated.
The PC (back-office) portion of the system is for LDAR program managers. It lets them set up months and even years of future LDAR work orders very quickly. From that point forward, they only need to assign them to their employees by selecting their names from a list. The system does the rest!
Once the system is in use, reports (such as the required EPA report, outstanding leaks reports, DOR list reports and many more) can be run at any time. They can even be scheduled to run daily and show up in your email automatically if you want! If management wants to have additional reports, custom dashboard views, and/or custom notifications, the system allows for these things to be quickly configured.
Interested in learning more about how Krinkle LDAR Tracker Pro® could help your LDAR process? Click here to check out the updated page on our website.
Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® Presenting at WRIT 2019
Krinkle is presenting its powerful shop floor mobile application and management reporting tool software, Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®, at this year’s Western Region Cat Dealers IT Meeting 2019 in Las Vegas, NV during September 16-17. Krinkle will be showcasing Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® at the conference with a presentation from Krinkle’s senior business analyst, Glenn Kletzky.
Designed to unburden CRC employees from time-consuming documentation by delivering meaningful data visibility to shop-floor users and management alike, Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® allows CRCs and their clients the ability to increase their productivity significantly. Through Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®’s quick form approach, floor techs will only spend on average 15 seconds per data entry sequence and will do so only a few times per day. As a result, Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®’s reporting tool allows CRC floor Techs and managers alike to easily keep track of every stage of the rebuild process from the arrival of the main component at a CRCs receiving area to the shipping back to the CRCs client. In addition, Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® is now integrated with Modern® (www.ModernIS.com) to automate the previously burdensome human effort required to keep Modern®’s critical customer service function healthy and timely.
Krinkle’s mission is to provide enterprise-level software that helps clients streamline processes & increase worker efficiency. It provides tremendous data visibility to all CRC users that were previously impossible to get. And it does so seamlessly and easily. This enables the CRC to keep data organized and easily accessible from the start of the rebuild process to its finish.
If you will be attending the event and is interested to know more about the benefits of Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® be sure to attend Glenn’s presentation on September 17 at 1:00 p.m. If you cannot attend the event or missed Krinkle’s presentation and would like to acquire further information about Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® and schedule a live demonstration by clicking here.
How to Climb to the Top of 5G Tower Climber Competition with Krinkle Closeout®
Fifth-generation cellular wireless, which is better known as 5G, is beginning to come to reality. With major wireless carriers like AT&T and Verizon launching new towers, with hopes of 5G fully taking shape in the future. Not only will 5G increase the speed & capacity of our internet, but it will also increase the demand for tower climbers to fulfill 5G tower needs.
According to information communication technology giant Ericsson, within the next four years, they plan on increasing their tower amount from 350,000 to 1 million, as they partner with other major U.S. carriers for 5G nationwide. As a result, in order for U.S. carriers to create those towers, there needs to be an increase in tower climbers to build & maintain those towers. Due to the increase in tower climbers, competition for tower contracts is going to be fierce. This is causing closeout companies, to think of new & innovative ways to climb their way to the top of 5G-tower climber competition. However, most are focusing on ways to improve their worker proficiency and improve their closeout package process.
The wireless industry’s ever-changing requirements can be difficult to keep up with. Nevertheless, with the innovative software of Krinkle Closeout®, closeout companies are having an easier time adapting and staying on top of the competition. Krinkle Closeout® can increase worker efficiency & quality of work, without sacrificing cost-effectiveness is helping its clients distinguish themselves from their competition.
With Krinkle Closeout®, crews on-site with an internet connection can get immediate feedback from Quality Control, eliminating return visits due to missed photos or incomplete data by almost 70%. Krinkle utilizes a powerful back-office tool that allows Quality Control teams back at the office better business process management in near real-time as data is collected. Field technicians will also have the benefit of unlimited photo logs, allowing them to make comments or answer direct questions on the state of any component while still on-site. Krinkle’s GPS capabilities also allow field technicians to search for specific sites, or any nearby. Providing them with maps in street view, as well as directions to any site by simply clicking on the selected site. In addition, automated time & date stamping allows technicians in the field indisputable proof that they are on the correct site and inspecting the correct components required for each project.
The wireless industry’s ever-changing requirements can be difficult to keep up with. Take your Closeout Package process from weeks or months to hours or days with Krinkle Closeout®.
To learn more about Krinkle Closeout® and how it can help you get to the top of the 5G tower climber competition click here.
Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® now integrated to Modern® at Caterpillar CRC.
Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® is a Component Rebuild Center (CRC)’s shop floor mobile application and management reporting tool that will easily keep track of every stage of the rebuild process – from the arrival of the main component at the receiving pad, through disassembly, part level quality control, reassembly, testing, and shipping back to the customers. It leverages a barcode placed on the Main component and barcodes permanently attached to all the parts baskets and gear trees etc. to get the job done.
The data visibility created by Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® for CAT CRCs allows floor techs all the way through management to gain clear insights into the status of their work orders. Clarity is available whether customers inquire or management needs daily priorities to stay on deadlines. Furthermore, the reports that Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® includes as standard help all users’ with their information needs and the system can also generate new and customized reports for any purposes. Standard Reports are used in Quality Control, KPI tracking, Work Order status tracking, whereabouts of dissembled parts and much more. This new data visibility significantly improves a CRC's performance and efficiency.
Through integration to Modern® (a sales department and customer communication text messaging system popular among CAT CRCs), Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® automates the previously manual and time-consuming process required to gather work order status and input information updates to Modern®. Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® will automatically communicate with Modern® at the instant a new event or milestone is achieved in the rebuild process and feed that information directly to Modern® so that the sales department and their customers will get updates on their rebuilds in progress in a near-real-time fashion.
Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®’s integration effort to Modern® demonstrates the commitment Krinkle has to the CAT CRC community and Krinkle is focused on establishing extensive partnerships with the CRCs as well as software vendors to further enhance Krinkle’s contribution to the ecosystem. In addition to tirelessly improving Krinkle Rebuild Tracker®’s functionality, Krinkle is also expanding its product portfolio for CAT dealerships including a soon-to-launch Hoses manufacturing, tracking and inspecting application called Krinkle Hose Tracker® that allows CAT dealers to generate more revenue and create service satisfaction to their clients. Soon, we will also be offering a scheduling application tied to Krinkle Rebuild tracker which assures people and resources (like reassembly bays) can be most efficiently (and easily!) scheduled.
Whether your CRC already uses Modern® as the customer-facing communication platform or not, Krinkle Rebuild Tracker® should be the next software to consider to improve your CRCs performance. Learn more HERE and be sure to subscribe for our latest update on Krinkle Hose Tracker®.