Arsenault Associates introduced Dossier Tire Management System–a system it says takes a new approach in automating tire data collection and reporting.
Arsenault Associates develops, distributes and supports the Dossier maintenance management software. Dossier Tire Management, which works with Dossier, is the first commercial fleet tire management system to apply an affordable and practical automated technology solution for managing all tires regardless of brand, the company says.
The Dossier Tire Management System automates tire data collection and reporting using new wireless tire technology tools and tire identification technology solutions that identify and report tires with severe operational issues without the need for data entry. The system answers the most important tire management questions including:
“Tire management poses a real challenge for fleet maintenance professionals,” said Charles Arsenault, CEO of Arsenault Associates. “The problem has been that the cost and man power necessary to collect the enormous amount of tire data necessary to manage tires has equaled or surpassed the savings derived from the effort. That marginalizes the value of a manual tire management program.”
The Dossier Tire Management system was first demonstrated at the Dossier User Group in Atlantic City last month. It is engineered to generate the greatest benefit in the fewest possible data collection man-hours, the company says.
The fully automated solution includes a new handheld tread depth and air pressure device called Dossier Tire Probe. That device communicates wirelessly with a PDA which runs Pocket Dossier, the mobile version of the Dossier fleet maintenance system. Each tire is identified by affixing an inexpensive bar-coded rubber tag that can incorporate an RFID chip. Variations of the Dossier tire ID technology are available to meet a fleet’s needs.
