What is Tyre Management?

What is Tyre Management?

Tyre Management is, quite simply, a philosophy. This philosophy incorporates an enormous amount of common sense in the way that we use, store and evaluate tyres. With the exception of a minority of diligent tyre managers, tyre management has traditionally been left out in the cold. Users have regarded tyres as a necessary expense – a commodity that will work for a while, be replaced and disposed of. This is no longer an acceptable attitude, as it is becoming more and more recognised that tyres are indeed a major expenditure item, an asset which, with proper use, can help generate higher income, an asset that should be looked after and the best use obtained from.

There are many facets of tyre management:
Management
Purchase, delivery, warranty
Maintenance
Fitting, storing, rotating, pressure maintenance
Use
Driving style and techniques, payload targeting
Tyre Environment
Road design & maintenance, spillage removal, road profiling
Historical Events
What has happened? What is going on now? What should be done to improve?

Total Tyre Control® was developed and designed to control and measure tyre and rim results, and to produce reports.  In order to make the correct tyre decisions, facts are at your disposal to assist you with your next move. The TTC system deals with facts. TTC records all activities that relate to tyres, presents you with factual reports, and enables inquiries and analysis that actively promote correct management decisions.

Traditionally, decisions regarding tyres have been made based on opinions, as the collection of the necessary information has been difficult to achieve, and reporting even more arduous. This is no longer the case. With TTC, information collection is easy, system entry is simple and user friendly, and has been developed over many years, using live transport operations to prove system reliability. When correctly used, new tyre results information provides tyre users with “information for better decisions”. The product has been designed to prevent inaccurate or incorrect data being accepted by the system, thereby ensuring that the output from TTC (i.e. reports, analysis, enquiries)  present accurate representations of the facts; facts that can be used to make better decisions, rather than opinion based guesswork.

Total Tyre Control® is a tyre/rim data collection program, with report and analysis options that make tyre management possible. Tyre management is a non-starter without a reliable, high integrity, easy to maintain data collection and analysis database.

How Total Tyre Control® works
The system collects data on tyres, rims, suppliers, manufacturers and vehicles. This data is a record of all activities  of the tyres/rims, both off and on vehicles. Data collection follows tyre/rim activity from the ordering of new tyres, to  the disposal of the carcass. The input of this data is structured to mimic the actual sequence of events on-site, and  uses “wizards” to take you through the necessary steps to achieve accurate data entry.

Ordering
Enter orders for new tyres as the orders are placed with the suppliers.
Stock Receipts
Enter tyres and rims in the system when they arrive on location.
Fitments
Enter tyre changes as tyres and rims are removed, installed.
Pressures
Enter tyre pressure readings that have been recorded.
Period-End
Enter tread depth readings of tyres that are fitted to vehicles periodically (usually on a  regular basis, e.g. monthly) to measure real time wear rates.
Disposals
Record the scrap tyre disposal, i.e. location, method, collector.

TTC knows how much tread is on the tyres at all times, how much of the tread is consumed in service (tread utilisation  rate), how much tread the tyres started with, how much the tyres cost, how many hours, kms/miles that the  tyres have done, and the current status of each tyre (e.g. running on a vehicle, scrap, or spare).

Using this information, the system can perform many calculations: current tyre and rim asset value; value of loss; tread utilisation rates; cost per hour; and cost per distance, (i.e. kilometres or miles) amongst many others. TTC presents you with all information, enabling you to be in total control of your tyres.

Total Tyre Control® is a windows application. that has been developed over many years, during which time it has been used in live situations, and has consistently provided excellent results. The current version incorporates all of the features of its predecessors, and many new improvements. Total Tyre Control® is regarded internationally as the standard in tyre management software, and is a tried, tested and proven product.

System Structure
Total Tyre Control®  is designed to cater for systems of all sizes – from smaller single-user sites, to large corporate organisations with complex hierarchy structures. TTC  can store tyre/rim data and produce benchmarking reports across sites.  In order to achieve this, the system has been designed to hold company structures at the division, region and site level.  Where these sites are in different countries, the system has the ability to track costs in different currencies and can therefore apply appropriate conversions to “compare apples with apples”.

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