Life cycle management is a quite important skill for companies’ management and facilities’ maintenance. With the increase of population and the frequent economic activities, motor vehicles face the enormous challenge. The economical growth and the transportation have the inseparable relations in an observation of past history. Therefore, life cycle management on Vehicle Fleet has become more important than before.
Nowadays, the truck’s exhaust emission causes the air pollution which is a good example. As this reason, air pollution has threatened with human and environment sustainability. The main reason is that lacks of the effective life cycle management（LCM）; Because of this, the whole problems deteriorate rapidly. Therefore, Life cycle management knowledge should be tightened utilization into companies and facilities management.
This essay will discuss about truck fleet. There are four parts including Tuck’s Basic Description, Truck Companies’ Maintenance Issues, Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Truck Companies and Truck Founder Considerations in the list below.
Truck’s description
c Types
c Basic Anatomy
c Performance
c Environmental Effects
Maintenance Issues of Truck Companies
c Documents
c Costs
c Resource
c Safe
c Risk
c Sustainability
c Obsolescence
Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Truck Companies
c Documents
c Costs
c Resources
c Safe
c Risk
c Sustainability
c Obsolescence
Consideration of Truck Founder
c Social
c Costs
c Risk
c Maintenances
c Marketing
c Future
Truck Basic Description
There are four parts of Truck Basic Description inside the chart.
Chart 1: Outline of Truck Basic Description
c Types
There are four types of truck including Mini Trucks, Light Trucks, Medium Trucks and Heavy Trucks.
Picture1: Mini Trucks Picture 2: Light Trucks
Picture 3: Medium Trucks Picture 4: Heavy Trucks
Picture 5: Very Heavy Trucks
Source: Google image
Basic Anatomy
Cab, Engine, Drivetrain and Frame is the four main portions of truck (2009).
Picture 6: Cab Picture 7: Engine,
Picture 8: Drivetrain Picture 9: Frame
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cab
A cab is a control space while driving; an enclosed space for diver to seat and rest while not driving.
Engine
An engine is a mechanical device which is the automobile power origin.
Drivetrain
The most important system in a vehicle is drivetrain which function is power transmitter from the engine to the wheels
Frame
According to Wikipedia, “A truck frame consists of two parallel boxed (tubular) or C-shaped rails, or beams, held together by cross members. These frames are referred to as ladder frames to their resemblance to a ladder if tipped on end”.
c Performances
Truck Performance is for supporting companies or individuals to carry goods, products or materials form departure to final destination.
c Environmental Effects
Exhaust gases emission which is the main causes of environmental effects from truck. According to the news (Larry 2009: Mike 2009), President Barack Obama announced a new national fuel policy which request the fuel economical standard is 30mpg of truck in 2016. The main goal is fleet efficiencies increase and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is why fleet manufacture factories put more effort in developing better technologies to reduce exhaust emissions.
Maintenance Issues of Truck Companies
Maintenance Issues are confused problems in Truck companies and enterprises. There are seven main issues inside the chart.
Chart 2: Outline of Truck Companies Maintenance Issues
c Documents Maintenance Issues
The same resources are established repetitiously in enterprise’s every nook. Unfortunately, with employees leave office, many records do not be preserved and integrated. Therefore, maybe documents are incorrect to be provided to customers.
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c Costs Maintenance Issues
Employees do not keep records actually. Therefore, companies cannot count real costs of trucks.
c Resources Maintenance Issues
Employees do not keep records unsystematically. Therefore, companies’ cannot count how much trucks there are in a company.
c Safe Maintenance Issues
Employees do not inspect actually. Therefore, many old components cannot be found which will potentially damaging to transportation safe.
c Risk Maintenance Issues
Companies can forecast risk maintenance issues due to employee do not keep many kinds of records actually. Therefore, no real data can be provided to predict the all risk issues.
c Sustainability Maintenance Issues
Costs and Resources are the two important portions in a company. If employees do not make clear records, a company will not predict risk. Sustainable Issues will be not improved as well.
c Obsolescence Maintenance Issues
When trucks were obsolescent, many companies always put them on storehouses.
Companies do not almost check how many trucks there are is in their storehouses.
Of course, companies never think how to utilize the old trucks.
Life Cycle Management of Truck Companies
Life Cycles Management is quite important in a truck company which includes seven parts inside the chart.
Chart 3: Outline of Truck Companies’ Life cycle Management
c Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Documents
Documental life cycle management is very important in a company. In the beginning, document process includes establishment, revision and cancelation. Secondly, documents are utilized by authority restrictions. Third, documents are classified by different departments and functions. Forth, make a catalog, anyone can get document easily. Fifth, virus control, avoid infecting through document transfer. Sixth, documents are stored space away. Last, implement documental management system.
c Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Costs
According to controlglobal.com (2009),” The customer chooses when to modernize, what components to invest in, how to fund the transition, and how much longer to maintain current capabilities. LCM effectively extends equipment life while providing a cost-effective path forward to the latest technology.”
c Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Resources
Life cycle Management (LCM) of Resource is more difficult work than the other. In the beginning, warehouse check. This is why companies should know how many resources companies have. Secondly, resources are classified by different types. Third, make a catalog, when any one read this catalog, he or she can know how many resources companies have. Forth, resources are stored space away. Last, implement Enterprise resources planning (ERP) which can help companies to know resources at warehouse.
c Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Safe
Safe life cycle management is very important in a transportation company. In the beginning, introduce the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concepts and thinking on safe. Secondly, establish safe process includes how often company should inspect truck’s function, how to inspect and how to record inspection result. Third, establish control system includes record and repository. Forth, make a catalog; there are a large collection of records available for consultation. Fifth, inspection records are stored space away. Last, implement safe life cycle management system.
c Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Risk
Life cycle Management (LCM) of Risk is more difficult work than the other. To begin, companies must know how much fund they have. Secondly, collect many data including costs, resources, economy, Politics and other information. Third, discuss and assess every situation repeatedly. Lastly, “provides a framework to manage risk according to the Fund’s risk appetite and offers reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of the Fund’s objectives. It looks well beyond the set of traditionally insurable risks, seeking to address all of the Fund’s risks within an organized and coherent framework”.
c Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Sustainability
According to Arne, Allan and Jensen (2005), Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Sustainability closed to products. Therefore, Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Sustainability must consider many aspects including economic, environmental, social, risk, future and other information. Initially, introduce the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concepts and thinking. Next, establish concepts and explain how to implement. After that, a step by step moves near the goal from production to marketing. Lastly, company achieves finally success with life cycle management and makes companies successful steps throughout the document.
c Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Obsolescence
Obsolescence Life cycle Management (LCM) is quite difficult work. In the beginning, warehouse check. For this reason, companies can know how many obsolescent trucks companies have. Secondly, obsolescent trucks are classified by different types. Third, establish obsolescent trucks include components analysis, reuse and recycle. Forth, make a catalog, when any one read this catalog, he or she can know how many components companies can reuse or recycle. Forth, obsolescent components are stored space away. Last, implement Enterprise resources planning (ERP) which can help companies to know obsolescent components in warehouse.
Considerations of Truck Founder
There are six parts of Truck Founder Considerations inside the chart.
Chart 4: Outline of Truck Founder Considerations
c Social Considerations
Founders consider first portion is social necessaries. The four portions include what the social necessaries are, how much there are for this necessaries, consult the necessaries why people use, and research other information about enterprise’s or governmental necessaries and so on.
c Costs Considerations
Founders consider second step is Costs. There are three parts including many funds they have, how much the business cost how much the loss founders can receive.
c Risk Considerations
The third part is risk consideration. There are three parts founders should consider which include business competition, business saturation and the huge investment is over founder control ability or not.
c Maintenance Considerations
There are four parts of maintenance consideration. A founder should consider which includes employees’ quantity arrangement, employees’ pay arrangement, truck’s quantity, petrol consumption control and insurance control.
c Marketing Considerations
A founder should consider two things. One is how to attract somebody’s attention such as television advertisements, news advertisements, magazines advertisements, playbills, propaganda, and handbills. Another one is good service. How to improve customer services quality is another key point as well.
c Future Considerations
Consult the area development is the most important of future consideration. A founder puts more effort on future development. A founder should expand his career and make friend chain. A good example is DHL.
To sum up, there are many maintaining issues to exist at a great deal of transportation companies of the world. For this reason, a good vehicle owner should have several life cycle management conditions to solve these problems. On the other hand, one person engages to acquire the trade, how many conditions a founder should consider. Final recommendation attained from this discussion is for manager of automobile to achieve positive management and maintenance methods.
References List
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