Industry — earthmoving & heavy plant
Every excavator on your sites emits telemetry. It arrives in four incompatible OEM portals, in three unit systems, and nobody reconciles it against what you actually billed. We build the layer that does.
Softrear builds fleet software for earthmoving and heavy plant operators: mixed-OEM telematics ingest on the ISO 15143-3 standard, utilisation and idle analytics, predictive service scheduling, and offline-first operator apps for sites with no signal.
idle
engine hours you burn fuel on and cannot bill
4
OEM portals your team logs into every morning
days
from breakdown to the right part on site
paper
still how prestarts leave the gate
Mixed fleet
Cat, Komatsu, Volvo and Hitachi each expose hours, fuel and location differently — and none of them agree on what an engine hour is. Normalising that is the whole job, and it is the part every dashboard vendor skips.
Connectivity
Anything an operator touches has to work with no network for a full shift, then reconcile without creating duplicate records. Offline-first is an architecture decision, not a feature you bolt on later.
Idle burn
A machine running at idle bills nothing and costs fuel, hours and warranty life. Nobody sees the pattern until month end, by which point the site has moved on and the crew has changed.
Paper
Inspections, defect reports and timesheets still leave the gate on paper. When an incident is investigated the evidence is in a ute glovebox — and the defect that caused it was reported three weeks ago on a form nobody keyed in.
What we build
One normalised machine record across every OEM feed, on the ISO 15143-3 standard where it exists and adapters where it does not.
Working hours against idle hours against billed hours, by machine, crew and site — daily, not at month end.
Component hours and fault-code history against your parts lead times, so the service lands before the breakdown does.
Gloves-on targets, sunlight-legible contrast, a full shift with no network, and conflict-free sync when the truck reaches the gate.
Inspection to defect to work order to sign-off, with photos, timestamps and an audit trail a regulator can follow.
Burn against hours against what you invoiced, plus the emissions reporting your tier-one clients now ask for in tender.
Case study — A civil earthmoving contractor
Four OEM portals and a spreadsheet, replaced by a single normalised fleet record and an offline-first app in every cab.
Read the build →Two weeks, fixed scope. We connect to every OEM feed you have, tell you what the data can and cannot support, and hand you the integration architecture — whether or not you build it with us.
Book the auditStandards we work to
A senior engineer reads every one of these. If we’re not the right fit we’ll say so, and point you at someone who is.
No spam, no drip sequence. A senior engineer replies within one business day.
