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Deere Construction Launches John Deere Connected Support

April 24, 2019
Designed to improve customer service and machine monitoring, John Deere announces the new John Deere Connected Support.

Designed to improve customer service and machine monitoring, John Deere announces the new John Deere Connected Support. Enabled through the JDLink telematics connection, John Deere Connected Support leverages a suite of dealer and factory tools to deliver increased productivity, uptime and lower daily operating costs. 

“With John Deere Connected Support, dealers take a proactive approach, efficiently improving service and the customer experience,” said Jim Wagner, manager, connected support. “Dealers remotely monitor machines, leveraging two key tools - Service ADVISOR Remote and Expert Alerts – which provides them with the information needed to act quickly to avoid or reduce machine downtime. This strategy was designed to ensure John Deere machines are kept in peak operating condition, resulting in increased productivity.”

A key to the Connected support offering is Service ADVISOR Remote, which allows the dealer to diagnosis and repair a problem from a remote location. The dealer can use it to analyze machine conditions in real time, or set a trigger point to record intermittent conditions, providing a deep look into the machine’s health. Additionally, the remote diagnostic capabilities can reduce troubleshooting time and eliminate a trip to the machine.

Another supporting feature is Expert Alerts, created by John Deere machine health analysts monitoring fleetwide machine data to identify emerging trends. Working directly with the factory product teams, John Deere can develop solutions used by John Deere dealers and technicians to repair machines onsite. Expert Alerts also equip technicians with information needed to bring the right part the first time so machines are back on the job as quickly as possible.

John Deere Connected Support creates a partnership between the John Deere dealer and factory teams that work tirelessly to monitor equipment, improving uptime. This allows machines to become more profitable and reduces potential delays to construction project schedules.

To learn more about John Deere Connected Support, visit www.JohnDeere.com or contact your local dealer.

About the Author

Michael Roth | Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.