Power Engineering Construction

Equipment management in power engineering has two distinctive features. First, temporary power depends on diesel generation, making generator fuel a direct project cost. Second, equipment is highly dispersed — a single transmission and substation project often stretches across tens of kilometres.

Operating Characteristics

Work faces for tower foundations, tower erection and line stringing are far apart. Temporary power comes from diesel generator sets. Lifting equipment is billed by machine-shift. Schedule milestones are rigid and equipment is redeployed frequently. Cost must be allocated and reported by work section and by work type.

Management Pain Points

Pain Point	How It Appears	What It Costs
Generator fuel out of control	Temporary power comes from diesel gensets; how much fuel is added, how much power is generated and where it is used are unrecorded	Inflated diesel cost that cannot be allocated across work sections
Dispersed equipment hard to inspect	Work faces lie tens of kilometres apart; managers drive site to site to check status	Limited management reach; anomalies found late
Lifting shift calculation	Truck and crawler cranes bill by shift, yet actual working time is unrecorded	Shift charges do not match actual work
Dispatch under schedule pressure	Stringing and tower erection milestones are tight; equipment moves between faces by phone	Machines stand idle; schedule risk accumulates
Project cost allocation	Plant and fuel cost must be allocated and reported by work section and work type	Manual compilation with inconsistent conventions and frequent errors

Solution Configuration

Equipment Type	Configuration	Installation Notes
Diesel generator set	S16 (or fuel rod / ultrasonic) + W12	Method selected by genset tank structure; running hours and generation fuel recorded together
Truck crane / Crawler crane	W12	Records actual lifting time as the shift basis
Concrete equipment / pump truck	W12 + S16	Records working hours and fuel to calculate cost per cubic metre
Earthworks and haulage equipment	W12 + S16 + Trip Counter	Same configuration as the construction scenario

Key design point — generator sets are recorded on two dimensions, running hours and fuel, so fuel per unit of generation can be calculated directly. This reveals whether a set's efficiency is degrading or whether consumption has become abnormal.

Results Achieved

Original Pain Point	Product Capability	Result
Generator fuel out of control	Real-time fuel level plus running hours, recorded together	Fuel per unit of generation calculable; abnormal consumption alerts immediately
Dispersed equipment hard to inspect	Platform map shows position and status of all equipment	Managers stop driving face to face; anomalies are pushed to them
Lifting shift calculation	W12 records actual working time	Shift charges match actual work
Dispatch under schedule pressure	Geo-fences plus live status	Nearest-available redeployment has a basis; idle waiting falls
Cost allocation	Automatic roll-up by project, work section and equipment type	Plant and fuel cost feed the cost report directly

Management Value

Cost reduction — diesel generation is the most easily overlooked cost hub on a power site; once consumption is digitized, the savings are usually obvious. Billing lifting shifts on actual working time also avoids the "charged from arrival" dispute.

Efficiency gains — management reach extends from "the faces one can physically drive to" to "every machine the platform covers", so the same team supervises a far larger worksite.

Ease of management — three views for project office, branch and head office, with plant and fuel cost allocated automatically by work section. Cost analysis no longer depends on manual ledgers.