When it comes to staying on top of your client’s machinery, predictive and preventative maintenance can save you incredible amounts of time, effort, and money that you would otherwise spend on reactive maintenance, repairing problems and failures after they occur. There’s no better way to execute predictive and preventive maintenance than with the power of Discovery Sound Technology’s ultrasonic diagnostic tools.

Whether you’re an HVAC technician looking to easily assess your clients’ various units or a business owner looking to add on to the services your HVAC company currently provides and expand the toolset for you team, DST can help you to maximize your resources with our efficient, modern technology.

Guessing or making assumptions about the state of your customers HVAC equipment condition is one way to plan out your maintenance schedules, but it’s not the best or truly customer focused in todays age of technology. Instead, build a informed and better maintenance plan around the fact-based diagnostics information offered to you by DST. Our self-calibrating, ultrasound diagnostic system captures and analyzes data on your customers’ equipment earlier than any other predictive technology. Capturing, recording and auto analyzing fact-based machine condition trends, and quickly documenting the large amounts of quantitative ultrasound condition data at each routine inspection, takes the guesswork out of diagnostics. Not only this, but with DST’s ultrasound technology, you can produce more comprehensive results in record time, typically up to 50% faster than other diagnostic methods!

Once you have DST’s ultrasound condition information to rely on, you’ll wonder how you managed your equipment without it. DST removes the mystery of machine condition and gives you concrete information to base your decisions on. DST’s ultrasound technology provides the earliest warning with accurate diagnostics in the HVAC/R industry.

Determining how and where to direct your workforce as a service business is never easy, but with the ultrasonic diagnostic technology offered by DST, it can be prioritized efficiently using actual machine condition documented within the DST platform.

Our technology is able to provide you with executive summaries and detailed reports to assist in prioritizing maintenance tasks. With these reports, you’ll be able to easily identify equipment that is operating properly, as well as units that need to be scheduled for service and equipment requiring immediate attention in order to avoid surprise failures. Creating a maintenance plan and allocating your resources where they are needed most, will become a simpler task with the help of DST. Not only this, but identifying actual machine condition problems earlier with DST Ultrasound, lets you repair earlier than vibration, oil analysis or themography, resulting in lower cost repairs and maintenance!

Dispatching the best technician for a service task is just as important as having the right tool for the job. DST allows you to leverage your maintenance strategy and technician deployment on equipment you monitor with DST. Here’s one of several implementation examples:

It doesn’t take a highly experienced technician to collect HVAC/R Ultrasound inspection data. DST teaches users how to perform that function in less than a day of field-based training. When a DST inspection is performed, fact-based diagnostics along with recommended actions are automatically provided & documented. Action can be taken before leaving the jobsite. DST’s platform provides & documents the diagnosis and recommended action where other users can view them remotely and provide guidance to the resources in the field. The benefit of lower operating costs to collect the information also benefits the service organization by allowing more experienced technicians to be used for higher level tasks / repairs that only they can perform.

The scenario above shows how a change in workflow has the ability to separate “data collection, uploading and diagnostics” activities from the actual “repair” activity that might need to be performed only by a higher level technician. Utilizing DST’s platform to monitor “actual machine condition” enables the service organization to transition into predictive and preventative maintenance for a majority of customer’s equipment. DST provides you with the earliest warning available in the HVAC/R industry, gives you more time to respond to customers’ machine conditions earlier, and lowers operating costs without totally disrupting the service schedules. Contact us here to learn how DST can help you!

DST increases your flexibility in scheduling technicians based on their skill level, making it easy for preventive maintenance service inspections or critical repairs to be completed with the appropriate technician. When you always have someone working who’s well-trained and well-suited to the task at hand, you can avoid further issues and get things done right the first time!