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An oil change on a heavy machine
Maintenance & safety

A liter leaves the drum on approval and comes back used with a receipt

The full oil-issue cycle: a request from the field, an approval that deducts from the drum, and used oil returned and booked into inventory — so no liter goes missing between workshop and warehouse.

Before

What happens today without this module

  • 01Issues happen without approval, so drums run out unaccounted for
  • 02Used oil disappears even though it’s sold and its value recovered
  • 03Oil cost never shows at the asset level
Capabilities

Exactly what this module does

  • Request, then approval

    An issue starts as a request; only the approval deducts from the drum balance — under an approval permission, not data entry.

  • Capacity check

    A quantity above the machine’s oil capacity is flagged automatically for review.

  • Used-oil returns

    About 90% of the quantity is expected back, and recording the receipt creates a “used oil” inventory balance automatically.

  • Locked with fault reports

    Oil issued against a report and left unsettled blocks the report’s closure.

  • Cost charging

    To the asset and the project.

Inside the service

How it actually works in your company

In most workshops the oil barrels are an open trust: technicians draw what they see fit, the barrel runs dry with no account of where its liters went, and the used oil disappears even though it sells for real money. This module closes the loop at both ends: dispensing starts as a request and only an authorized approval deducts from the barrel, and the used-oil return is a precondition of approval rather than a courtesy after it — with an expected return of roughly ninety-five percent booked back into inventory.

01

Request first, approval deducts

The technician submits a dispensing request with the type, quantity and machine, and the request stays pending until someone holding the maintenance-approval capability — not mere entry rights — approves it. Recording is one thing, deciding another. The approval alone is what deducts from the selected barrel, after a check that its balance suffices: no dispensing precedes its decision, and no barrel's level drops on a spoken word.

02

A capacity check before deciding

A quantity exceeding the machine's engine-oil capacity by a reasonable margin is flagged automatically at request time, and at approval it passes only with a written override reason recorded on the transaction. An illogical quantity is either a typing error to correct or a leak worth a question — and either way, the decision and its reason stay stamped in the record for whoever reviews later.

03

The return is a condition

Dispensed oil pushes the old oil out of the engine, and the system expects roughly ninety-five percent of the quantity to come back. It refuses to approve the dispensing at all before the used oil's receipt is recorded and meets the expected threshold. At the moment of receipt, the used oil is automatically booked as its own inventory item through a documented inbound movement — turning it from a liquid that vanishes behind the workshop into visible stock that sells and recovers its price.

04

Locked into incidents and cost

An oil transaction linked to a fault report enters that report's closing gate: a report carrying an unapproved oil issue, or used oil not yet received, cannot be closed until the transaction is resolved — no deferred settlement gets forgotten after the file closes. The cost lands on the machine and appears in its history beside its parts and its faults, and every barrel's level, location and status stays readable at any moment.

Inside the product

The screen as your team uses it

Oils
Screen of Oils
The flow

How the process runs end to end

  1. 01

    Request

    From the field, with type and quantity

  2. 02

    Approval

    Deducts from the drum under an approval permission

  3. 03

    Return

    Used oil is received and booked into stock

  4. 04

    Entry

    In the asset’s history and its cost

After rollout

What actually changes

No promises built on numbers we don’t know about your company. What follows is the structural difference of wiring this module into the rest of the platform.

Accounted drums
no issue without approval
Used oil kept
it returns as a sellable balance
Visible cost
per asset

Limits of this module

No laboratory analysis of oil samples. Engine-oil change scheduling lives in preventive maintenance — this module governs issue and custody.

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