Visco adopted ToolSense to keep a fast-growing fleet under control, replacing scattered Excel lists and several separate programs with one platform that shows where every machine is, holds all the documentation, and tracks the statutory inspections the team can no longer afford to miss.
Visco is a German mid-market business specialising in fibre-optic rollout, civil works, in-building installation and switch-cabinet construction, all delivered turnkey. Jonas Müller manages the workshop. The company has grown sharply in recent years, and the fleet has grown with it, which is exactly what pushed Visco to look for a real system rather than spreadsheets.
The starting point
Because Visco was growing so fast and ran everything in classic Excel lists, the picture stopped being transparent. The team soon realised it needed software to know where, when and which machine was standing where. Worse, the records weren't even in one place: there were several different programs in parallel, and Müller wanted to end that, one platform where every asset comes together.
The stakes are large. Müller puts the fleet in the four-digit range, and with installation at peak he is under steady pressure from his managing director to get telematics fitted as quickly as possible, even if the hardware sometimes takes a while to arrive.
Why ToolSense
The referral came from a heavy hitter. Visco had a former colleague who'd worked with ToolSense at STRABAG, and through that connection the two found each other. Visco's managing director had long been searching for a solution, a short demo was enough to win him over, and the company signed.
As a tip, I'd definitely say: don't test many platforms, pick one. We did that with ToolSense and we're really satisfied, it works well.
Jonas Müller · Workshop Manager at Visco GmbH, Visco
Operational impact
The clearest benefit is no longer hopping between platforms: everything sits in one place. Müller stores all the documentation, reports and inspection records there too, and finding the right one is simply faster than searching across separate tools, work that, multiplied across a large workforce, used to add up quickly.
Location tracking has changed daily dispatch. Müller's example is concrete: a colleague rang to ask where his vehicle was after someone else had taken it, and a quick look in ToolSense answered it, not to keep tabs on colleagues, but because dispatch at this scale is far easier when you know where things are. He's candid that the early installations brought some teething problems, but ToolSense reacted quickly to sort them.
What's next
Visco still has many machines to bring in and wants, over the medium term, to manage its entire fleet and equipment through ToolSense, a long road given the four-digit count, but the goal is one base to work from. Müller sees the same digitalisation wave moving through construction that hits every industry: at Visco's scale you can't keep an overview without these programs, and GPS is part of that. A point he stresses for the future is inspection management, the statutory UVV checks and the like: if no system reminds you, things slip through, and even when nothing goes wrong, you can fail an audit, a risk Visco no longer has to carry.
