摘要: |
Predictive maintenance and condition monitoring are an integral part of some industries, and are growing in importance in the transport sector. The driver's daily checks are a first line of defence, but remote monitoring systems allow fleet engineers to gather substantial amounts of data without having to bring vehicles into the workshop. This lets them benchmark vehicles within a fleet, and see which may be in need of servicing or repair. A technical standard agreed by consensus of all of the European OEMs enables this. The rFMS (or Remote FMS) standard for trucks and buses aims to make it easy to access data for fleet management purposes; it is an evolution of the long-established FMS standard (see box, p16) which allows status information (such as position, speed, engine RPM)to be monitored, and sends notification of driver warnings (telltales). However, neither standard directly sends fault codes. |