TennaTALK - A Podcast for Contractors: Recent Episodes
Austin Conti, Jose Cueva, Kristen Olson, Mark Facciani, Jolene Pierangeli, James House, Greg Arlen, Frank Rodriguez
TennaTalk is a podcast created for construction contractors. This podcast give you the information and quick answers to you need on construction technology related to equipment fleet operations for your business in less than 5 minutes.
By using technology, construction companies can see equipment maintenance improvements that include minimized downtime, lower costs, improved safety, and simplified inventory and labor management.
Tenna is on Capterra’s shortlist for best providers of equipment maintenance management software, enterprise asset management software, and easiest to use software providers in the GPS location space.
Learn how to find the right solution for your company and the benefits of a construction equipment management system.
Explore diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the construction industry and how Tenna is leading the way with a focus on DEI programs and policies.
Knowing an asset's location can only get you so far. Learn why adopting a comprehensive equipment management solution would simplify your operations.
While it might be tempting to wait to implement a mobile strategy, evidence shows construction companies that leverage tech are outperforming competitors.
GPS tracking for equipment offers more benefits to the construction industry than you might realize. Here are the top five reasons why.
Even a small deficiency in your construction equipment maintenance software will leak money and kill productivity. Here is what you need to know.
Construction resource management now has a labor and equipment Schedule functionality so everyone from the field to office can make automated requests.
Efficient construction fleet management of your equipment is essential for solving all types of problems. Here are six ways management software can help you.
Construction telematics systems have many practical applications. Learn how these systems can help contractors and equipment owners increase productivity.
Learn how construction supply chain delays are affecting your business and what you can do to minimize the impact.
Dash cameras protect the drivers, company, and vehicles. But protection isn't the dash cam’s only virtue.
Tenna’s new TennaCAM 2.0 features AI technology and powerfully complements the data Tenna pulls from vehicles, completing the picture for fleet managers about what is happening with assets and drivers.
“A Controller Area Network is a robust vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other's applications without a host computer.” If you Google “CAN bus,” that’s the answer you’ll get from Wikipedia. All clear? We didn’t think so either. But CAN bus is also essential to the daily functionality of Tenna and other data-oriented systems. So let’s take a closer look.
Our new and unique integration with rental management companies allows Tenna customers to manage their equipment rentals and their owned assets in the same system.
Find out how you can use modern equipment management software to reduce the total cost of ownership of your most important business assets.
Tenna’s partnership with Trimble-Viewpoint allows for deep integrations with ERP products widely used across the industry to simplify equipment data flow and analysis for construction accounting and finance teams.
Learn why your most important assets are not performing as well as they should, and how asset management software can help you make the most of your key assets.
Learn about Tenna’s new total solution for construction resource management and dispatching for construction businesses.
Learn how equipment management systems have evolved in recent years to change the way construction leaders manage their most important equipment.
All you need to know about construction site theft prevention and what construction companies and contractors can do to reduce loss.
Covering ways that technology companies and insurance providers are partnering to help contractors manage risk.
Real-time data in construction helps avoid spending excess time on the phone playing detective about your own equipment; it also limits time staring at the laptop, wondering what those spreadsheets of numbers actually mean. This is the power of big data in construction. Integrated construction technologies can help predict the future availability of equipment by better understanding the present to permit better preparation for the future. Telematics data, construction data, and GPS fleet analytics can be meaningful terms to you. They all deliver actionable information and can be used as tools in the same way as your equipment to help achieve goals and allow your business to grow. Let’s get into the specifics of how meaningful and properly delivered construction data analytics can be crucial conduits that fuel the growth of your business.
Learn the value of construction integrations and how a mature and connected technology ecosystem improves the lives of those in the construction industry.
Cultural shifts are taking place on both sides of the aisle as contractors continue to adopt construction tech.
Reasons contractors see failure with telematics adoptions and the right ways to build buy-in from the field to ensure success (from contractors who have done it first-hand).
How consolidated and focused equipment fleet management software allows contractors to adopt with success.
In the construction industry, tracking devices are used to track heavy equipment, mid-sized equipment and fleet vehicles.
As construction equipment is one of a contractor’s highest cost centers, being cost conscious about your equipment utilization and your owning and operating costs is critical. All contractors calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO) a little bit differently, with various expenses to consider.
Fleet management departments have been using technology in some form since the 286 processor and dot matrix were considered new tech. However, companies continue to under-utilize equipment assets, carry more capital equipment than necessary, dispute over maintenance, and wrestle with the own vs. rent debate. This webinar follows FMI’s Fleet in the C-Suite research to improve leveraging equipment assets and FMI’s partnership with Tenna as we engage in a conversation about fleet management best practices and the application of modern technology to optimize the company’s investment in the fleet.
Look at any job site, and you will see a lot of construction equipment. If you are a contractor on a job, can you see all your equipment, and know what equipment is on your site? Is it working? Is it being utilized? Can you see what’s available to you on other projects or at the yard that you may be needing next week?
In construction businesses, the more transparency you have over your assets (people, equipment, tools), the more margin you can earn, more competitive you will be and more profit you will generate.
What is equipment tracking software? We get asked this question frequently and wanted to provide information on what equipment tracking software is, how it works, industries that commonly use it and the benefits of using it.
“What are the benefits of a GPS tracker for equipment?” This is one of the most asked questions we get. Not surprising as you weigh your options against other tracking technologies and want to understand the benefits of GPS.
While many states in the US are still in the throes of COVID-19, some are reopening and many more are making plans in preparation of reopening. Contractors are also looking at what they will need to do to return to work and what the new “normal” will be.
Safety has a major impact on a contractor’s ability to win work. Without a safety record strong enough to meet the requirements in your customer’s RFPs, contractors are inhibited from winning new work, expanding into new territories and generating overall business growth.
There are a variety of different tracker types that are used to track an equipment fleet and when it comes to installation, the tracker’s placement can help with the performance and longevity of the tracker.
While there are a lot of claims on the market regarding the ruggedness of a tracker, they may not truly be rugged enough to withstand the harsh environmental conditions these trackers are subjected to on jobsites during each season.
As the world is going through the global COVID-19 pandemic every business and every individual has been affected. It has changed how businesses operate and whether they can stay open as “essential” or shut their doors permanently.
Tenna has consolidated resources for you below that cut through the noise to give you what we know matters to you and your business. We will continually add to this post as more information relevant to contractors becomes available.
Once you’ve decided to invest in and implement a new construction equipment fleet management system for your company, the fun begins. During your buying journey your vendor should have provided a comprehensive overview of their implementation process.
There are a few phases and subphases of the buying journey that begin once you know where you want to go – or once you know what you are looking for.
When looking for ways to improve business, Owners and their Management team spend a great deal of time looking at inefficiencies and how to better their operations so that they can make more money.
There is a myriad of challenges (and strategies) for successful technology adoption in different industries. Some industries have embraced technology, so their pain is too many tools, while others are slow adopters of technology and believe they don’t need it.
World of Concrete kicks off on February 3, 2020 for educational seminars and on February 4, 2020 for exhibits. The show runs until February 7, 2020.
Technology, People and Outcome and Performance KPIs matter for long- term successful use of the technology.