AI for Heavy Equipment Companies | TMI
AI for Heavy Equipment

We build the backend that runs your heavy equipment operation.

We delete the software you do not use, connect what is left, and install the systems and AI that run predictive maintenance, utilization, job costing by machine, and dispatch. In 30 days your fleet runs on systems, not on you. You own it.

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$1M+
Equipment value tied up in a mid-size fleet
40%
Of fleet machines sit underutilized
$2K+
Cost per day of a downed machine on a job
30%
Of operating budget spent on maintenance and repair
What TMI Builds

The entire heavy equipment operation, on one system.

Not six point tools bolted together. One operating system that runs every lane, from the first service call to collected cash, built for how heavy equipment fleets and dealers actually run.

Front Office

Service Intake & Requests

Every service call, repair request, and rental inquiry lands in one place instead of a voicemail, a text, and a sticky note. Each request is logged against the machine and customer, so nothing waits three days for someone to remember it.

Front Office

Estimating & Quotes

Build repair and service quotes from your real labor rates, parts pricing, and machine history, not a guess. A quote on a hydraulic rebuild reflects what that exact job costs you, so you stop winning work that loses money on every ticket.

Front Office

Quote Follow-Up

Open quotes and pending warranty approvals get tracked until they close or die, not forgotten. You see every estimate sitting unanswered and exactly where it is stuck, so high-dollar repair work stops aging out in a customer's inbox.

Field

Technician Dispatch

Matches the right tech and the right machine to the right job by location, certification, and pending service. Lowboy moves and field-service calls are coordinated in one place, so you stop sending a tech across the county while another sat two sites over.

Field

Mobile Work Orders

Techs open work orders, log labor, capture fault codes, photos, and signatures, and close jobs from the field. No paper packets reconstructed Friday afternoon. The detail that drives billing and warranty is captured once, at the machine, and stays attached to the job.

Field

Equipment, Parts & Telematics

Tracks every asset, its location, and its parts consumption while telematics feed engine hours, fuel burn, and fault codes into each unit's baseline. When readings drift toward a known failure signature, the machine is flagged for a service window before it goes down in the field.

Money

Invoicing & Billing

A closed work order becomes an invoice without a week of re-keying. Labor, parts, and rental time flow straight from the field into the bill, so completed work gets invoiced the same day instead of waiting on someone to assemble the paperwork.

Money

Repair & Job Costing

Ties each machine's hours, fuel, parts, and tech time to the job it ran, so you see true cost per repair instead of a blended fleet average. When a rebuild runs over, you can tell whether it was the parts, the tech, or the estimate, and the next quote reflects it.

Money

Collections & AR

Tracks every unpaid invoice and warranty claim by age so nothing sits past terms unnoticed. The system flags slow-paying accounts and stuck warranty reimbursements, so the cash you already earned actually comes in instead of quietly aging on a report.

Compliance

Tech Certs & Safety

Tracks technician certifications, safety training, and equipment inspections tied to the jobs they apply to. Expiring credentials are flagged before they lapse, and a tech missing a required cert cannot be dispatched to a job by accident.

People

Crew Accountability

Ties tech hours to specific machines, work orders, and jobs, so you see who worked what and how hours compared to the estimate. Overruns and idle time surface in the dashboard while the job is open, not at month end when the margin is already gone.

Command

One Dashboard

Every machine, work order, quote, and dollar rolls into one view. Fleet leadership sees the whole operation at a glance and drills into any single unit or job, so you stop assembling the picture from four disconnected portals and a phone call to the yard.

How TMI Compares

Operations infrastructure across every brand. Not another telematics portal.

Capability TMI Caterpillar VisionLink John Deere Operations Center Generic Telematics
Predictive maintenance from telematics Machine-level models built to your fleet Alerts and health on Cat machines Alerts and health on Deere machines Raw data and basic thresholds only
Works across mixed-brand iron One layer over Cat, Deere, and aftermarket Cat-focused Deere-focused Single-vendor view
Fleet utilization vs. billing Idle iron tied to jobs and revenue Utilization on Cat machines Utilization on Deere machines Hours and location only
Job costing by machine True cost per machine per job Not available Not available Not available
Dispatch and scheduling Machine, operator, and transport in one place Not native Not native Not available
Predictive parts inventory Reorder based on failure probability Not native Not native Not available
Implementation timeline 8-12 weeks Subscription - per brand Subscription - per brand Hardware install required
Custom-built vs off-the-shelf Built for your operation Generic platform Generic platform Generic platform
How It Works

Three steps from audit to live fleet monitoring.

01

Complete Audit

We map your fleet, identify your highest-cost downtime and utilization risks, review your existing telematics feeds, and produce a specific build plan with ROI projections. You walk away with a clear picture of what gets built and what it returns before any significant investment is made. The Audit applies toward your project.

02

Build

TMI builds predictive models against your actual telematics data, normalizes the feeds from Cat, Deere, and aftermarket platforms into one model, and constructs the utilization, costing, dispatch, and alert infrastructure. Four to seven weeks depending on how many platforms and brands are involved. Every system is built to your fleet - not configured from a generic template.

03

Install and Hand Off

Systems go live. Your yard managers and crews get trained on the controls and alert protocols. One to two weeks. The predictive models continue improving in accuracy over the first 60 to 90 days as they learn each machine's specific patterns. You own the infrastructure without ongoing per-seat software fees.

FAQ

Questions about AI for heavy equipment.

Telematics-driven predictive maintenance consistently delivers the highest ROI. A downed excavator or dozer can cost thousands of dollars a day in lost production, idle crew, and emergency repair premiums. Catching a hydraulic or undercarriage problem from telematics data before the machine fails costs a fraction of an unplanned breakdown on a critical job. Fleet utilization intelligence is the second highest return - surfacing idle iron you are still paying for but not billing.

TMI builds models that pull telematics data from your machines - engine hours, hydraulic pressure, fuel burn, fault codes, coolant and oil temperature, idle ratios - and establish baseline patterns for each unit. When readings drift toward known failure signatures, the system generates a service alert before the machine goes down on a job. The alert names the specific machine, the developing problem, and a recommended service window scheduled around your production calendar rather than an emergency in the field.

Yes. Most fleets run mixed iron - some Cat on VisionLink, some Deere on Operations Center, some older or aftermarket machines on third-party GPS and telematics. TMI builds an integration layer that pulls all of those feeds into one normalized data model, often through the AEMP / ISO 15143 telematics standard plus direct API connections. You get one operating picture across every brand instead of logging into four portals that do not talk to each other.

The system compares engine hours, working hours, and idle time against where each machine is assigned and what it is billing. Iron sitting idle on a yard, double-counted across jobs, or running high idle ratios shows up immediately. You see which machines are earning their keep, which are underutilized, and whether you should reassign, rent out, or sell a unit instead of buying another one you do not need.

TMI ties each machine's hours, fuel, operator time, and maintenance spend to the job it ran on, so you see true cost per machine per job instead of a blended fleet average. When a grading job runs over, you can tell whether it was the machine, the operator, the conditions, or the estimate. That feedback loop sharpens your bids and shows you which work actually makes money once equipment cost is fully loaded.

Yes. TMI builds multi-location architectures that give each yard or regional manager a view of their own iron and give ownership a consolidated view across every site. Each location keeps its own dispatch and maintenance configuration, and utilization and cost comparisons across yards are built into the reporting layer so you can spot where machines are idle in one region while another is renting to cover demand.

Most fleets are fully operational in 8 to 12 weeks. The Audit takes two weeks to map your machines, telematics feeds, and operational gaps. Build runs four to seven weeks depending on how many telematics platforms and brands need to be connected. Installation and crew training takes one to two weeks. Predictive maintenance models improve in accuracy over the first 60 to 90 days as they learn each machine's specific patterns.

Every engagement starts with the Complete Audit. The Audit maps your fleet, identifies your highest-cost downtime and utilization risks, and produces a specific build plan with ROI projections. Full project scope is determined after the Audit based on fleet size, the number of telematics platforms involved, and the systems prioritized. Most fleets recover the project cost from a single prevented breakdown on a critical job or a few months of recovered utilization.

VisionLink and Operations Center are excellent telematics dashboards - but they are brand-specific and they show you data rather than run your operation. TMI builds infrastructure on top of all your telematics feeds and ties maintenance, utilization, dispatch, parts, and job costing into one operating layer across every brand of machine you own. It is not another portal your team logs into to read numbers. It is infrastructure that surfaces the decision - service this machine, reassign that one, bid this job differently - before it costs you.

TMI captures the service history, recurring fault patterns, and operator notes for each machine into a structured equipment memory that does not walk out the door. When a veteran mechanic retires, the next person can see what this exact unit has done, what tends to fail on it, and how it was fixed last time. The knowledge that used to live in one person's head becomes part of the system every yard can use.

Get Started

Start with The Audit.

Two weeks. A complete map of your fleet, every downtime and utilization risk quantified, and a specific build plan. Applies toward your project if you move forward.

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