Cat® Product Link™
The Cat Product Link Devices (PL243) target all machines for the customer’s enterprise and job site. This includes the customer’s mix fleet of SEM product and could be a solution for multiple brands of customer’s construction machines in the job site.
The PL243 leverages cellular networks, it is intended to offer hours and location information and it is a low-cost entry point for customers to take advantage of Cat Product Link technology.
In the growing of utility customer segment, the well fleet management and low operation cost requirement are becoming more important for customer’s business; it could help dealers establish a long-term relationship with customer to ensure the maximal of machine access, support long term parts growth strategy, quickly respond for machine failures, better understand machine reliability and capture the potential resale opportunities.
PL243 offers:
- Hours & location
- Engine start/stop time recording, geo-fencing (Only applicable to machine with VisionLink subscription)
- Reports data from locations covered by cellular communication (The PL243 performance is related to the telecommunication supplier’s signal coverage in territory)
- Engine disable feature (Only opened for India market. If other territories want to add this feature, executive process and process owner must be ready firstly)
User Values:
- Effectively manage the assets utilization efficiency by the instant data from PL243 which highlights the machine operation condition and location so that customers can manage and maximize the machine utilization efficiency.
- Change the machine service schedule from periodically to proactively by being automatically and timely updated to information across the fleet.
- Improve the uptime and reduce the down time by optimizing the maintenance intervals, increase machine availability.
- Improve the operator efficiency by comparing the productivity and machine operation time under same working condition within fleet.
- Set up site boundaries and security alerts to inform customers of unauthorized machine movement (Only available after VISIONLINK subscription).
- Track the machine location as per business requirement and reduce risk of potential loss or damage of machine.