Patent ID: 8639434

Claim:
A collaborative sharing workgroup comprising: a workgroup comprising a plurality of assets; an integrated manager module fixedly coupled with each asset, the integrated manager module comprising: an asset systems monitor; a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) position information monitor; and an environment information monitor; a communications module fixedly coupled with each asset, the communications module automatically shares information from each integrated manager module to each of the plurality of assets in the workgroup and receives the shared information from each of the plurality of assets in the workgroup, wherein the asset system monitor provides asset information selected from the group consisting of: engine information, battery information, fuel information, fault information, operating time, load information, route information and previous work performed; and a user guidance module coupled with each asset, the user guidance module utilizes the shared information to automatically update guidance information for each asset, the user guidance module operates independently on each asset in the workgroup without requiring a central managing device.