Tire tread probe: how to streamline management

Do you already use a digital tire tread probe in your fleet? Did you know it is excellent for making your tire management more agile?

Managers and team members themselves know how much controlling tire calibration and wear affects their routines and vehicle performance. This is why frequent tire inspections are already a familiar activity for fleet management teams.

But what are the benefits of using technology and digital equipment in the inspection process?

Here, we really like to emphasize the word “standardization.” Although it is important to consider each person individually, when we talk about filling out documents and data for analysis, it is important for everyone to follow the same template.

This makes a digital tire tread probe a great help in tire management. It standardizes information within its system and makes it easy to view and understand for any manager, driver or mechanic who accesses the data.

There are also other benefits we would like to discuss below.

Information accuracy

Compared with manual tools, equipment such as tread depth measuring devices and digital tire tread probes provides significant gains in information accuracy.

The equipment itself already provides this advantage through the technology it uses. In addition, there is the advantage of eliminating paper notes and transcription into management software.

Digital tools generally include devices that allow connection and data transmission to other equipment, such as tablets, smartphones and computers. This happens, for example, through Bluetooth. Combining information collection and entry avoids losses and errors, to which a manual process is more susceptible.

Inspection time and reduced rework

Another advantage of using technology in tire management is the time it takes to carry out the inspection process. The tread depth measurement and pressure check alone can already be performed much faster.

When the process uses digital equipment capable of saving collected data and exporting it to the management system, the time required for the activity is reduced. This is because other manual tasks that would be carried out by a group of employees are eliminated.

This comparison of the traditional method vs. the Prolog method (video in Portuguese) with a digital tire tread probe is essential to prove to you that digital inspection really works — and is more efficient.

Fleet visibility and planning

A widely used management maxim sums up the value of measurement well: to manage better, you first need to measure consistently.

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

Larger volumes of better-organized information, updated more quickly, make it possible to create a history of tire behavior. This makes it easier to see the fleet’s actual condition.

Storing and analyzing this data also makes it possible to study and identify various factors that influence tire durability and vehicle performance. The data collected starts to serve not only specific corrective actions, but also the ability to control certain events.

In other words, it gives the fleet manager the possibility of anticipating situations that could harm fleet performance and routine.

Here at Prolog App, our tire management solution includes not only software that will standardize and simplify your work, but also an inspection kit developed by our team of specialists.

With Prolog’s electronic tread probe, tire data collection becomes faster and more accurate, with instant entry into the system. Dashboards are updated with every inspection and can be accessed from anywhere, providing the visibility needed to correct issues and make decisions about tire replacement.

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