Bromma Roadmap™ is the first Green Zone™ application to be developed specifically for port operations management and the terminal service manager. Bromma Roadmap™ maps past spreader fault areas as a guide to helping terminals focus service resources on clearly identifiable “risk areas” for spreader downtime or under-performance.
Bromma’s pioneering work in developing Roadmap™ was influenced by Bromma’s successful collaboration with a major European terminal. Through detailed and careful analysis of past spreader performance issues, and the development of tailored preventive service plans targeting prior “weak links” in performance, the terminal was able to lift MMBF performance from the 1,500 level to nearly 6,000 MMBF.
“Stated simply, this tool helps management better focus maintenance department resources
on areas of service that are most strategic,” says Bromma V.P. of Marketing and Product Business Development Lars Meurling. “Through a better focus of preventive maintenance, management has a better chance of keeping their spreader fleets up and productive in the green zone.”
The new Bromma Roadmap™ application has two basic features.
Know Where You Are
First, Bromma Roadmap™ helps management understand where they are based on various spreader key performance indicators (KPI). Spreader KPIs provide a framework for tracking fleet improvement.
By looking backwards at the spreader’s function history, Bromma Roadmap™ helps management identify the “A” – where the spreader fleet is. Bromma Roadmap™ identifies the “10 most frequent fault areas” that have in the past affected the fleet’s performance. By looking back, Bromma hopes to help managers more effectively look forward.
As Lars Meurling notes: “To get to where you want to go, it helps to know where you have been. Our expectation is that by ‘drawing a map’ based on thorough, careful and systematic attention to past spreader performance issues, terminals will have a better chance of avoiding a repeat of these issues in the future. In our past experience with other terminals, this principle has proven true.’
Focus Maintenence on Weak Links and You strengthen the Chain
The second part of the new Bromma Roadmap™ application is the “forward” part -- Roadmap™ provides guidance to port managers in how to restructure spreader maintenance in a way that will address prior spreader fault areas. By ‘drawing a map’ that focuses on weak links, terminals can strengthen the chain of spreader fleet performance.
“All terminals want to stay up and stay productive,” notes Bromma Vice-President and Commercial Director Vikram Raman. “Focus is part of the way to get there. Routine spreader service addresses many areas, but Roadmap™ highlights forward planning on risk areas that merit special attention. By using the knowledge of past ‘weak link’ areas to shape future preventive service programmes, terminals have a better chance of strengthening the ‘chain’ of spreader performance and staying in ‘the green zone.’”
Accessible on Multiple Communications Platforms
Bromma Roadmap™, along with the other communications tools available in the Bromma productivity suite, will generate information that can be readily accessed on a variety of communications platforms. For example, the Roadmap™ application will be able to be accessed on a notebook computer, a service technician’s iPad, tablet computers, computers in the maintenance department office or central terminal operations offices, or even on a service technician’s mobile phone.
New Green Zone™ Spreader Productivity Suite Available for Test-Drive
During 2011 Bromma Roadmap™ will be made available to terminal customers on a trial basis. Bromma believes that the new Bromma spreader productivity suite, which includes Bromma Fleet Doctor™ as well as Bro
