Taabi
Use case · Asset Management

Reduce Downtime with
Predictive Maintenance

Catch failures before they strand a vehicle — OBD diagnostics, fault-code intelligence, driver-linked wear and availability planning. The vehicle told you four times. The trick is reading it before the fifth.

Solved withVehicle IntelligenceDriver BehaviourAsset IntelligenceFuel Monitoring
Built for fleets whose vehicles broadcast a warning long before they fail — and whose logs no one has time to read.
Illustrative · 120 vehicles · FY26ANNUAL
Downtime cost
₹1.9 Cr
OBDFault codes, unrouted₹20 L
OBDRecurrence uncounted₹15 L
DriverDriver-linked wear₹12 L
OBDCross-signal blindness₹10 L
AssetParts-wait, not repair-time₹8 L
OBDNo health benchmark₹3 L
Recoverable downtime₹68 L
The question

What is predictive maintenance in fleets?

Using OBD/ECU data, fault-code history, usage patterns and AI to anticipate a failure before it becomes a breakdown — so downtime is planned into a workshop slot, not suffered on a highway. The vehicle is already broadcasting the warning; predictive maintenance is what reads it and names the part.

Why an alert isn't enough

A breakdown alert tells you a vehicle has already failed. Preventing the next one needs the fault code routed to an owner, its recurrence counted, the fuel and thermal drift read alongside it, and the wear attributed to how it's driven. The signals are already in your logs — what's missing reads them together and says a name out loud.

Where the downtime hides

₹1.9 crore of downtime. One wheel bearing. Eleven weeks of warning.

A single rear-left wheel bearing logged a fault code four times before it failed on a highway. Follow it through six leaks — each one a signal that was already in the logs. The ledger keeps score.

Leak 01₹20 L / yr

Fault codes, unrouted

The rear-left wheel bearing raises a code in week 1. It's logged. It reaches no one. It raises three more over ten weeks — logged, unrouted — then fails on NH48. A code with no owner is not a warning. · the protagonist

vibration · rear-left hubW1W4W7W9W11 · failure

Four codes logged on the way up. The fifth was the roadside.

Leak 02₹15 L / yr

Recurrence uncounted

Code C1095 appears in five of ten weeks. Each time it's cleared and forgotten. A code that returns is not the same as a code that fires once — but nobody was counting. · same code, five times

C1095
C1095
C1095
C1095
C1095
W1C1095 · returned 5×W10
Leak 03₹12 L / yr

Driver-linked wear

Harsh braking and abrupt loads wear brakes, clutch and drivetrain faster than the schedule expects. A handful of drivers are buying breakdowns early — and the maintenance calendar can't see them. · wear per driver vs plan

wear-to-plan

Most of the fleet wears to plan. The amber ones fail early — attributable to how they're driven.

Leak 04₹10 L / yr

Cross-signal blindness

Fuel-trim drift sits just under its alert line. Coolant drift sits just under its own. Neither trips an alarm alone — but read together they've been describing the same failing part for weeks. · two signals, one fault

alert threshold
fuel-trimcoolantread together

Each under its own line. Correlated, they cross it.

Leak 05₹8 L / yr

Parts-wait, not repair-time

When the bearing finally goes, the truck is down 60 hours — and 46 of them are the part in transit, not the repair. Predicted three weeks out, the part would have been on the shelf. · down for the part

Vehicle down · 60 h
repair · 14 hpart in transit · 46 h

The repair was never the problem. The waiting was.

Leak 06₹3 L / yr

No health benchmark

Without a per-model health baseline, a score of 71 means nothing — there's no healthy line to have fallen from. Drift can't register as decline when there's no benchmark to measure it against. · nothing to fall from

71health · no baseline

The dashed ring is the baseline that was never set — so 71 has nothing to mean.

A breakdown alert tells you it failed — the ₹20 lakh you notice on the hard shoulder. The other ₹48 lakh is signals already sitting in your logs: codes with no owner, recurrence no one summed, fuel and thermal drift no one read together. The signals are already there. What's missing reads them together and says a name out loud — "rear-left wheel bearing, three weeks out."

Downtime ROI Calculator

What is avoidable downtime costing your fleet — and which product wins it back?

The recovery is split by the product that earns it — so you can decide what to deploy first.

Fleet size
vehicles
Breakdowns / month
events
Avg downtime / breakdown
hrs
Downtime cost / hour
Maintenance / vehicle / yr
Average vehicle age
yrs
iAssumptions are conservative and fully configurable.
The stack

Three products. One failing part.

Vehicle Intelligence carries the page — it reads the signals the vehicle already broadcasts. Driver Behaviour attributes the wear; Asset Intelligence plans the availability. Fuel Monitoring lends its drift signal to the cross-signal read.

Primary

Vehicle Intelligence · OBD

The engine of predictive maintenance: fault codes routed to an owner, recurrence counted, health scored against a per-model baseline, and a cross-signal read that links fuel and thermal drift to the fault they've been jointly describing. It turns a log full of noise into a named part, three weeks out.

Fault codesRecurrenceCross-signal
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Supporting

Driver Behaviour

Attributes wear to how a vehicle is driven — the harsh braking and abrupt loads that buy breakdowns early — so the pattern can be coached and component life extended.

Wear from misuse
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Supporting

Asset Intelligence

Turns a predicted failure into a planned one — the part on the shelf, the workshop slot booked, the availability protected. Downtime scheduled instead of suffered.

Availability · parts planning
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How they compound

An alert names the day it broke. The stack names the part, weeks early.

Each product you add doesn't just catch its own signal — it sharpens the read below it, because it removes another reason a failure could hide.

Tier 1
OBD

See the fault

Fault codes routed and counted, health scored against a baseline, fuel and thermal drift read together. The failing part becomes visible weeks before it strands anyone.

Tier 2 · +Behaviour
OBDDriver

Attribute the wear

Link accelerated wear to the driving that caused it. A failure stops being bad luck and becomes a coachable pattern — the breakdown you prevent, not just predict.

Tier 3 · +Asset
OBDDriverAsset

Rank & plan availability

Rank predicted failures by cost and criticality, stage the part, book the slot. The prediction becomes a plan — and the 46 hours of parts-wait disappear.

Business impact

What reading the signals early is worth.

Downtime
−up to 20%
Fewer hours lost, as suffered breakdowns become planned workshop slots.
Critical failures
Earlier
Detection weeks ahead — the fault named while the part is still on a shelf.
Availability
Better
More vehicles ready to run, because parts-wait is planned out of the cycle.
Asset life
Longer
Components last closer to their design life once misuse-driven wear is coached out.
Rollout

Where fleets start.

Predictive maintenance is a programme with a sequence — and the sequence matters, because each phase makes the next one readable.

Weeks 1–4

OBD live, codes routed

Devices across the fleet, fault codes flowing to a named owner. The unrouted-code leak closes on day one — a code with an owner is a warning.

OBD
Months 2–3

Health baseline + wear attribution

Per-model health baselines make drift mean something, and behaviour data attributes accelerated wear to the driving behind it.

OBDDriver
Quarter 2

Availability planning

Predicted failures ranked, parts staged, slots booked. The prediction becomes a plan — and parts-wait leaves the downtime cycle.

Asset
Who it's for

Built for two operating realities.

Operator

Fleet owners & transporters

  • Fewer roadside failures — the breakdown caught in the workshop, not on NH48
  • The part on the shelf before the vehicle is down for it
  • Longer component life by coaching out misuse-driven wear
Enterprise

Enterprise fleet & maintenance teams

  • Availability SLAs held across the network, not hoped for
  • One health baseline across models, sites and vintages
  • Maintenance spend shifted from reactive to planned, and measurable
FAQ

Predictive maintenance, answered.

What is predictive maintenance in fleets?+

Predictive maintenance uses OBD/ECU data, fault-code history, usage patterns and AI to anticipate a failure before it becomes a breakdown — so downtime is planned into a workshop slot, not suffered on a highway. It reads the signals a vehicle is already broadcasting and names the part about to fail.

How does OBD reduce downtime?+

OBD/ECU data carries fault codes, recurrence and cross-signal drift — the evidence a failure is coming. Routing those codes to an owner, counting recurrence, and reading fuel and thermal drift alongside them turns a future roadside breakdown into a planned repair. The signals are already logged; OBD is what reads them together.

Can driver behaviour affect downtime?+

Yes. Harsh braking, over-revving and abrupt loads accelerate wear on brakes, clutch, tyres and drivetrain — buying breakdowns earlier than the maintenance schedule expects. Attributing wear to driving style lets you coach the pattern and extend component life.

Which Taabi products reduce downtime?+

Vehicle Intelligence (OBD) surfaces fault codes, recurrence, health scoring and cross-signal reads. Driver Behaviour attributes wear from misuse. Asset Intelligence plans availability and parts. Fuel Monitoring adds the fuel-drift signal to a cross-signal read. Together they turn suffered downtime into planned downtime.

Reduce downtime with predictive maintenance

The signals are already there. Read them before the fifth code.