Ryder Automates Maintenance
the world's largest truck-leasing and rental company, has unveiled an automated maintenance system designed to dramatically increase productivity and reduce vehicle downtime.
The new system, called the Ryder Fast Track Maintenance Service, has been installed in 75 of its 915 North American locations, with remaining locations expected to be on-line by July 1995, said Chuck O'Neill, company spokesman.
The system is designed to save time by using a sophisticated, central data base to perform a number of tasks once done manually or with less sophisticated software programs.
For example, it can be used to quickly determine vehicle problems, provide technicians with step-by-step repair procedures, schedule maintenance checks, track a vehicle's maintenance history, record fuel transactions and stock inventory, O'Neill said.
Allied to Cut CFC Output at Facility
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Allied Signal will cease manufacturing chlorofluorocarbons by the end of August at its facility in Danbury, Ill. It will continue to make CFCs at its Baton Rouge, La., facility.
The operations shutdown will come 16 months before a Dec. 31, 1995, government deadline banning the U.S. manufacture of CFCs, which have been linked to depletion of the earth's ozone layer.
The company is halting production before the deadline because of reduced demand, said Paul Norris, president of Allied Signal Chemicals & Catalysts. The action should not affect its current CFC customers, he said.
