{"id":14471,"date":"2025-06-03T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/?p=14471"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T10:48:26","slug":"tip-limit-the-idling-of-your-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/tip-limit-the-idling-of-your-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Limit the idling of your machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/stationair-draaien-machines.jpg\" alt=\"limit idling of machines\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/>A simple way to save costs in machine parks that usually - wrongly - receives less attention is limiting idling. However, this is something that occurs very frequently, because how often does it not happen that the engine of a machine continues to run unnecessarily while the operator takes on another task for a while. By properly coaching the machine operators, a <strong>considerable amount can be saved<\/strong> with a small intervention. And then we have not even mentioned the <strong>positive impact on the environment<\/strong> due to the reduction in the amount of emissions. Not entirely convinced of the savings possibilities? We illustrate it with a concrete numerical example.<\/p>\n<h3>Save thousands of euros per year<\/h3>\n<p>Together with you, we will calculate for a start-up with a small fleet of machines, consisting of 10 different construction machines. Suppose that these machines idle for about 1 hour every day on an average of 2 litres. For a week with 5 working days, this amounts to 100 litres of unnecessary consumption. If we assume that the price of red diesel is 80 cents per litre, this amounts to a cost of 80 euros per week. If we calculate that 40 full weeks are worked in a full year, this quickly amounts to 3200 euros per year, and that is <strong>just for fuel<\/strong>! For a small fleet of machines, this is still a considerable amount that is spent unnecessarily every year. In addition, the engines of the machines will suffer less wear and tear, which means that <strong>fewer maintenance sessions<\/strong> will be required. Finding a solution to reduce idling is therefore a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<h3>Detect unnecessary machine idling<\/h3>\n<p>But how can you, as a machine park manager, determine exactly which machines require intervention? A simple extension of our standard track-and-trace solution for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/online-monitoring-track-and-trace-systems\/tracking-of-machines\/\">monitoring machines<\/a> provides an answer. Using a smart Bluetooth sensor, we can detect whether a machine is actually being used and is not running unnecessarily without any activity. If this takes longer than the set time interval, a <strong>warning<\/strong> is automatically sent to the dispatcher, who can then contact the operator to determine why the machine is idling and, if possible, switch it off. In addition to <strong>raising awareness<\/strong> for all machine operators together, specific, customized <strong>coaching<\/strong> can be provided based on the collected data.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button cta\" href=\"#contact\">More information? <strong>Contact us<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple way to save costs in machine parks that usually gets less attention is to limit unnecessary idling. And then we haven't even mentioned the impact on the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14472,"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471\/revisions\/14472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traxgo.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}