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THE CHOICE: Young heavy equipment technician follows love of machines instead of finance degree, earns AEMP’s top honor
You don’t find many young guys with college degrees working as heavy equipment technicians. But the Association of Equipment Management Professionals’ Technician of the Year Brent Schroder found out quickly that working on equipment is far more satisfying and lucrative than what he could be doing with his bachelor’s degree in finance. Growing up in […]
July 6, 2015
Workforce
If construction wants to tap the millennial workforce, industry must abandon tribal knowledge for Web reference
Last week while attending the Association of Equipment Management Professionals Management Conference and Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, I heard a term I’d never heard before: “tribal knowledge.” I thought it sounded like a pretty cool thing until I looked it up on Google. Turns out tribal knowledge is a term used in SixSigma, which defines […]
March 25, 2015
Technology
AEM/AEMP draft telematics standard should be ready for integration by end of April
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers has announced that its draft telematics standard, developed jointly with the Association of Equipment Management Professionals, should be ready for OEMs and fleet managers to integrate into their systems by the end of April. The standard, currently in draft, or beta, was released for download in September. The program standardizes telematics data […]
March 24, 2015
Technology
In-cab video monitoring with telematics driver scoring brings big benefits to truck fleets
One of the biggest concerns fleet managers have is the safety of their drivers and operators and there is no better way to improve the safety of trucks and equipment than technology. But signing a check for and wiring up a bunch of systems won’t solve your problems if that’s all you do, said presenters […]
March 23, 2015
Technology
“Embrace disruptive technology or go out of business,” AEMP telematics, tech seminar warns contractors
The first telematics session at the Association of Equipment Management Professionals 33rd Management Conference and Annual Meeting started out with a dire warning about disruptive technology. Presenter Gerald Green, Caterpillar strategic development manager, asked the heavy equipment fleet managers in the standing-room-only audience, if any of them knew what happened to the Kodak company. Kodak, […]
March 20, 2015
Construction Equipment
Tech focus, infrastructure campaign net Case Construction Equipment AEMP’s 2015 Associate of the Year award
During the Association of Equipment Management Professionals’ annual meeting in Orlando this week, the group named Case Construction Equipment its Associate of the Year. AEMP gives the award each year to a member company which “has significantly enhanced or promoted AEMP’s mission and vision.” “CASE is actively involved with our membership and has placed […]
March 20, 2015
Technology
Construction and the Internet of Things: Own it, control it, get out in front of it…or it will control you
You’ve probably heard the hype about the Internet of Things—small sensors, transmitters and computer chips embedded in everything from thermostats to coffee makers to jet engines. Chris Rezendes has heard the hype and he hates the hype, but says: “I’m betting my economic future that we will deploy sensors, they will create value and they […]
December 15, 2014
Technology
Two experienced fleet managers tell how telematics data helps make their companies more competitive, explain how to adopt the technology
There will come a time in every construction company’s life, when a trigger event will make the deployment of telematics not only advisable, but even necessary. And that time is fast approaching for almost every company, said Guy Gordon, CEM, director of asset management at Aegion, and Dan Samford, vice president equipment assets, Herzog Contracting. […]
November 10, 2014
Construction Equipment
How telematics is reshaping the future for equipment managers
The Association of Equipment Management Professionals’ 2014 Asset Management Symposium kicked off Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, with a record-breaking crowd packed into a standing-room-only ballroom at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. This year’s symposium was dedicated to a single subject–off-road telematics–and began with a panel discussion from three of the industry’s leading practitioners. In a […]
November 5, 2014
Workforce
How a “Circle of Retention” can bring better hires to construction companies
The biggest challenge facing the heavy equipment industry is the lack of qualified workers in any skill area. The problem is not impossible to solve but as with football or any other sport, winning requires preparation, planning, goal setting, training and mentoring. This is more work than many contractors and fleet managers anticipate and certainly […]
October 1, 2014
Technology
A crash course in telematics: AEMP Asset Management Symposium will have answers to questions everybody is asking
If you have a lot of questions about telematics and how you can make this technology work in your construction business, you’re not alone. Telematics is reshaping the way we do construction, but the learning curve is steep and many contractors struggle to master it on their own. Recognizing this, the Association of Equipment Management […]
September 15, 2014
Workforce
How one construction firm is using drag racing to recruit new talent
If you want to catch a fish you need bait. And if you want to catch the attention of a mechanic, a 10,000 horsepower, 300 mile-per-hour car is a good start. Mechanics and technicians, as we all know, are in short supply. To recruit them Herzog Contracting, the Association of Equipment Management Professionals and the […]
September 4, 2014
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