Diesel is one of the few costs contractors track closely — and still one of the easiest to lose to inefficiency and pilferage.
Fuel consumption rate (litres per running hour) is one of the most reliable early indicators of equipment health and, when it drifts without explanation, of fuel pilferage on site. Consumption creeps up from clogged air/fuel filters, injector wear, excessive idling while "waiting for material," and operators running engines to power auxiliary equipment. Diesel is usually tracked as a total monthly spend, not reconciled against logged running hours per machine — without that reconciliation, a consumption creep looks identical to "just more work done this month."
A machine running 220 hours/month at 5.2 L/hr instead of its own known-good baseline of 4.5 L/hr burns roughly 1,850 extra litres a year — at ₹92/litre, that is over ₹1.7 lakh in avoidable fuel cost on a single asset.
Disciplined operations log fuel filled against hours run per machine daily, flag any consumption rate more than 10% above the machine's own baseline, and schedule filter/injector servicing on a fixed interval rather than reactively.
Disciplined operations log fuel filled against hours run per machine daily, flag any consumption rate more than 10% above the machine's own baseline, and schedule filter/injector servicing on a fixed interval rather than reactively.
Rebota's Equipment Monitoring module tracks fuel entries against running hours per asset, flagging consumption drift against that machine's own history automatically instead of waiting for the monthly diesel bill to look "high."