Where others go on vacation, the construction company from southern Saxony-Anhalt has been driving heavy equipment since it was founded in 1967 as a melioration company. Since reunification, the medium-sized company has been in private hands and has been operating as a limited company under the name MST since 1990. This reflects the company’s core competencies at the time – melioration, road construction and civil engineering. Today, however, the focus is on road construction and civil engineering projects. Located between three construction-relevant hubs in central Germany, the training company with 135 employees and its own machinery mainly realizes projects in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. Its clients are primarily state construction companies, utility companies, municipalities, special-purpose associations and private investors.
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Farewell, Zettelwirtschaft
Digitization began four years ago and an ERP system was introduced first. But even then it was clear that the handwritten timesheets also needed to be digitized.
With the introduction of 123onsite this situation came to an end. Dipl.-Ing. Sven Meinhardt, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, had learned about the app at a VDBUM event. Fascinated by how easy it was to use and how quickly data could be transferred from the construction site to the office, the decision was made to use it. MST then equipped 120 employees with smartphones on which the app was installed.
Today, employees on the construction site simply book their attendance time and the system completes the recorded hours using the stored information and transmits the resulting results to payroll accounting promptly – provided there is a wireless connection. If there is no connection, which is often the case in rural areas, the app transmits the data as soon as a connection is re-established.
Transparency and time savings
The advantage of using the 123onsite app is enormous for MST. In the past, it was sometimes not possible to complete the month-end closing on time because timesheets were missing and had to be researched. In addition, inconsistencies crept in because some colleagues only wrote down the hours at the end of the week. All this is now a thing of the past. Today, the employees are convinced of the ease of use because it saves both their time and the time of their colleagues in payroll accounting. The effort required for checks is a thing of the past, as are incorrect data entries.
The advantage of using the 123onsite app is enormous
Today, employees are impressed by the ease of use, as it saves both their time and the time of their colleagues in payroll accounting. The effort required for checks is a thing of the past, as are incorrect data entries.
Win-win situation
Enthusiastic about 123onsite, Sven Meinhardt volunteered as a beta tester for the 123fleet tracking portal, the expansion to include the areas of devices and device automation. During this phase, he put the portal through its paces, passed on error messages, requests and also possibilities for optimization and handling to the development team. A win-win situation for both MST and the software company.
Dipl.-Ing. Sven Meinhardt
Head of the mechanical engineering department
During the test phase, I always had a contact person who took my ideas on board and discussed them with me. Of course, my suggestions were also implemented.
Dipl.-Ing. Sven Meinhardt
Head of the mechanical engineering department
MST GmbH
Road construction and civil engineering
No more tedious manual transfer
Sven Meinhardt was impressed by working with 123fleet during the test phase. The connection of machines from different manufacturers is particularly important to him. He is gradually retrofitting devices that do not have a telematics connection so that he can also track them easily in 123fleet. At the moment, 100 devices are connected to the tracking portal. The plan is to add a further 200 devices by the end of 2022, divided into performance and provision devices.
Automatic determination of information
Sven Meinhardt is delighted: “123fleet determines the performance and location data based on the stored projects and posts them to the corresponding construction sites.” This eliminates the need for laborious manual transfer and posting.
At the start of the project, Meinhardt draws a geowindow around the relevant construction site, either a circle or a polygon, depending on the terrain situation. If the construction machinery and equipment equipped with telematics are located within this window, the equipment, operating hours and meter readings are assigned and recorded automatically.
Visual processing of the device runtimes
The application displays the entire fleet in an intuitive map view. The visual processing of the running times enables Meinhardt to plan the fleet more economically together with the site managers. The engineer always has an overview of the equipment, can see which construction site it is on and what performance it is currently delivering. Evaluations of the equipment types, equipment performance, maintenance cycles of the equipment per project etc. are possible and make his work easier.
123onsite is connected to the ERP system via an interface, and a further interface for the transfer of machine data is being planned. In future, Meinhardt will then also be able to directly import the recorded operating times and services for further processing and assign them to clients and cost centers.
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The working method has changed from paper to digital recording and offers the company both enormous time savings and transparency.
With 123fleet gives MST an exact overview of the use of equipment and the utilization of the construction site fleet, enabling it to further optimize its use.
The inspection and maintenance cycles Meinhardt now manages them digitally. He uses 123fleet to set up the measures according to legal requirements, device type or manufacturer specifications. “An overview shows me the stored measures that need to be taken into account and their status depending on when they are due,” explains the engineer. “I can also see when maintenance is due based on current meter or mileage readings.” By automating the machinery, the medium-sized company saves time and can increase its productivity even further.
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