BauFlott – Development of a fleet management system for construction equipment FMS Figure 1: Structure of data transfer between equipment and back-office The aim of the research project BauFlott is to develop a fleet management system for equipment fleets to support end-user managing effectively their assets in a mixed-fleet environment. Therefore the technical and economic requirements of a fleet business system are determined. Further the necessary asset data will be defined and prototypically implemented into a fleet management software. Initial situation Today, the construction industry is subject to enormous requirements in terms of cost savings and on-schedule completion times due to the complexity of construction projects, the high fragmentation of the construction industry and the strong national and international competition. At a construction site all trades are carried out by different companies. This leads to a lack of consistency and of transparency in the process. The fact that every construction site is subject to different conditions causes a volatile production process and reinforces the complexity. Managing this complexity requires an in-depth and detailed planning and management of construction projects. At this point, the project BauFlott is applied. By using the fleet management system for mixed construction equipment, construction operations can be planned, managed and monitored better. In the commercial vehicle sector, such telematics and fleet management systems to control the transport logistics are already widespread. Such kind of systems are also used in the construction industry. However, these are largely limited and depend on the access to the equipment data. A holistic fleet management system for all assets does not exist, yet. Individual equipment ma- nufacturers offer telematics systems aligned to their own brand. The AEMP standard of 2010 (version 1), with its four operating values, is a first step towards a resource-data standard. However, it is not sufficient for the equipment owner. Further characteristics performance factors cannot be acquired from the equipment operations so far. As a result, an extended AEMP-Standard (version 2) with 19 operating values was developed in 2014. As part of this research project and with the support of the telematics committee of the VDBUM, a realization of the advanced telematics data standard shall be tested. Objective The main goal is to capture assets regarding their performance and specific operational data for processing in further construction operations and maintenance. Therefore a fleet management system will be developed in this research including different types of equipment and their types of operations. Equipment owners should be provided a holistic fleet management system, which enables them to plan and manage the use of their equipment efficiently for increasing productivity and decreasing operational time and cost. The following questions need to be investigated in the Approach research. –W hich functionalities are required for a logistical fleet management system for equipment? –W hat data needs to be collected to support these functionalities sufficiently? –D esired frequency for data to be sent from the asset? –H ow can we process raw data to performance factors for the back-end? –W here should the data be processed (computing power vs. transmission volume)? –W here and how is data storage performed with regard to availability and security? –W hat information should be communicated back to the operator? How can information be transmitted to the asset? BauFlott is divided in three stages. Stage 1 determines the analysis of the required equipment data for a fleet management system. Thus, a performance measurement system for different construction operations is determined. In stage 2, the development and implementation of the fleet management system is executed . First, the requirements are defined for the fleet management system. These serve as a basis for the selection of the base system. Further, evaluation algorithms for asset data are developed with regard to the operational control of a construction site. Based on this, a prototype will be built. As part of the package 3, the prototype will be tested in a series of experiments, regarding functionality, interaction with the back-office system, quality of the data preparation and usability. Following the test series, the test results are evaluated and adjusted according to the prototype. Project partner – Department of automation and information systems (AIS) of the TUM – VDBUM / AK-Telematik – Industry Partner / SME – Operator – Manufacturer – Provider of telematics solutions Contact Research project 18135 N Nicole Hietschold, M.Sc. Phone 089 / 289-159 11 Fax 089 / 289-159 22 E-Mail:[email protected] Dipl.-Ing. Amadeusz Kargul Phone 089 / 289-159 11 Fax 089 / 289-159 22 E-Mail:[email protected] Technische Universität München fml – Institute for Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics Project period Boltzmannstraße 15 85748 Garching www.fml.mw.tum.de 1st May 2014 – 31st March 2016 The collective research project 18135 N/1 of the research association Bundesvereinigung Logistik e.V. – BVL was funded by the AiF within the Industrial Collective Research Program (IGF) by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on the bases of a decision by the German Bundestag.