Release Notes: February 16, 2024

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All of the new products and features below were showcased in our February 2024 Live Launch. Watch the recording here!

Mechanic Time Cards

The time card solution for mechanics will allow them to easily capture their time against sites, assets, work orders, and maintenance requests. Mechanic Time Cards improve efficiency, track employee productivity, and streamline the payroll process.

How It Works

Time cards are digital records used to track hours worked by an employee during a specific period.

  • Add time entries for specific tasks using our desktop or mobile app
  • Entries automatically get assigned to the user's time card
  • Optional tiered approval process for time cards
  • Create time cards for your entire crew at the same time
  • Cost code time entries against assets, sites, work orders or maintenance requests
  • Create custom time types and class codes for your company

Parts

Take asset tracking and cost management even deeper with Tenna’s Parts feature.

With Parts, you’ll have better insight into possible work order snags, more efficient preventative maintenance schedules, and more control over inventory issues that can delay projects.

Parts Catalog

Take control of your parts list with a centralized, smart database.

  • Create or upload parts and their details (photos, UPCs, SKUs, specs, warranties, etc.)
  • Manage pricing in one location
  • Add warranty information for simple follow-up when needed
  • Include dispatch data including size, weight, and load notes to prevent delays later

Parts Inventory

Pull from your Parts Inventory—or add parts on the fly—for complete repair and maintenance records.

  • Manage inventory on hand across locations
  • Get alerts on minimum/maximum quantities
  • Easily pull new parts from an industry-built database of parts
  • Keep track of costs, transactions, and moves across locations
  • Pull parts from inventory into a Work Order or Maintenance Request
  • Know the parts needed for each preventative maintenance
  • Maintain a record of the parts history of assets along with their usage (miles/hours/days) and the status of their warranties

Cost Codes

Handle a crucial construction management function with Tenna Cost Codes.

Cost Codes facilitates informed decision-making and helps companies achieve increased profitability and efficiency.

  • Empower field personnel to capture labor and parts costs
  • Manage your catalog of customizable cost codes
  • Improve cost tracking and transparency
  • Analyze equipment costs across sites
  • Streamline resource allocation
  • Compliment Maintenance and Mechanic Time Cards

Manage customizable cost codes to empower field personnel to capture labor and parts costs.

  • Users define their own equipment Cost Codes to align with their ERP/Accounting
  • Cost Codes management is controlled with a License and Permissions
  • Codes have an optional Type for categorization and up to 5 Tiers for flexibility
  • Codes will have an Active/Inactive state allowing the user to sunset a code and prevent future use

TennaCAM 2.0 Road-Facing A.I.

TennaCAM 2.0 now includes the option for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) in-cabin audio alerts. The camera utilizes artificial intelligence to warn the driver of road-facing events. The following alerts are included in the TennaCAM 2.0 ADAS:

  • Forward Collision Warning: Alerts the driver of potential front-end collisions through calculations using speed of your vehicle and distance from a vehicle in front of you.
  • Headway Warning: Designed to assist drivers in maintaining a safe following distance.
  • Tailgating: Designed to alert drivers when they have maintained an unsafe following distance for an extended period of time.

Key Enhancements

Resource Management

View all requests, including assets and labor resources, in one, convenient view with the new All Requests tab.

Note: Requires either Asset Approver and/or Labor Approver permissions.

View the schedule for suggested assets prior to approving an Asset Request.

New options for Request Expiration Rules:

  • Request expires in x days or after the Start Date of the request
  • Request expires in x days or after the End Date of the request
  • The request will never expire

Enhancements to Dispatch Events:

  • The events are now tabulated based on status for an easier look at what the progress is for asset requests
  • When selecting at site, the location will pre-populate unless a pin has been dropped, in which case the pin location would populate
  • Delivery time is now an optional field
  • Delivery titles do not need to be unique
  • You can now clone dispatch events

Enhancements to Dispatch Queue Panel:

  • Actions for scheduled requests
  • Modify all option
  • Color code events in the past

Users Grid

The Users Grid is now paginated! It also includes anew column for “Supervisors” if Mechanic Time Cards is enabled.

Reports

The Starts and Stops premium report now includes a location (Latitude, Longitude) in the event that an address is not associated with the event. Users can hover over to view the location on a map.

Report/Grid Enhancement Type Enhancement
Assets Grid New Column “Site No” column added
Consumables Transactions by Site Report Column Data Will show “Deleted” under Reporters column for users that have been deleted from your account
Geofences Grid New Column “Site No” column added
Location History Date Range Filter New date range filter added
Project Utilization Views Report Timeout Limit Increased timeout limit on FE
Starts and Stops Report Column Data Location column will now show lat/long for event with no known address
Trips Report New Filter / Searchable You can now filter and search by “Designation Type”
Users Grid Paginated Now shows 100 results per page
Users Grid New Column “Supervisors” column added

Bulk Upload

Support for United Rentals and Sunbelt as primary Telematics options during Bulk Upload

Easily import asset data from your existing Sunbelt or United Rental integration using Bulk Upload.

Hardware

Newly added TennaCANbus Adapters:

  • Deutz 12 pin: Compatible with Deutz powered assets, Bomag, Hamm, Genie, JLG Lifts, Doosan Air Compressor (Deutz powered), Wirtgen, Gehl, Kawasaki Construction Equipment
  • CAT 9 pin Straight Cable: Compatible with newer CAT Skidsteers, CAT Telehandlers, and newer CAT Mini Excavators
  • John Deere 9 pin Straight Cable: Compatible with newer John Deere Backhoes

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