In Episode 8 of perma POWERTALK, host Fred Rittenauer sits down with Travis Stubblefield, Key Account Manager at perma USA, for Part 1 of a discussion on connected lubrication, LoRa technology and maintenance reliability.
Their discussion explores how maintenance and reliability teams are using connected lubrication solutions to improve equipment visibility, streamline lubrication management and make more informed maintenance decisions. They also examine real-world applications in industries such as aggregates and mining, the advantages of remote monitoring and how connected lubrication can help reduce risk, increase efficiency and support long-term reliability goals.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- What connected lubrication is and how it fits into modern maintenance strategies
- How LoRa technology enables remote monitoring of lubrication systems
- Why equipment visibility is critical for reliability and maintenance teams
- How connected lubrication helps prioritize maintenance activities and optimize resources
- The benefits of monitoring lubricators without physically inspecting every asset
- Real-world connected lubrication applications in aggregates, mining and other industrial environments
- How remote monitoring can help reduce risk and support safer maintenance practices
- Ways connected lubrication contributes to improved uptime and reliability
- Why digital lubrication management is becoming an important part of Industry 4.0 initiatives
Why Connected Lubrication Matters
Connected lubrication gives maintenance teams greater visibility into the health and status of their lubrication systems without requiring technicians to physically inspect every lubrication point.
In this episode, Fred and Travis discuss how connected technologies are helping facilities move beyond traditional lubrication practices by providing access to real-time data and system insights. With better visibility, maintenance teams can make more informed decisions, prioritize resources effectively and support broader reliability initiatives across the plant.
As facilities look for new ways to improve efficiency and reduce risk, connected lubrication is becoming an increasingly important part of modern maintenance strategies.
Understanding LoRa Technology
One of the key topics discussed in the episode is LoRa technology and its role in connected lubrication systems.
Designed for long-range communication with low power consumption, LoRa networks make it possible to collect data from lubrication systems across large facilities and remote locations. This capability allows maintenance teams to monitor equipment conditions, receive status updates and gain greater insight into lubrication performance without extensive infrastructure requirements.
For industries with widespread assets, LoRa can help simplify monitoring while improving access to actionable information.
Improving Equipment Visibility
Many maintenance teams face the challenge of managing a large number of lubrication points across multiple production areas.
Traditionally, verifying lubricator status often requires technicians to physically inspect individual units. Connected lubrication provides another approach by allowing teams to remotely monitor lubrication systems and identify potential issues before they impact equipment performance.
Greater visibility can help teams:
- Monitor lubricator status remotely
- Identify assets that may require attention
- Prioritize maintenance resources
- Support proactive maintenance practices
- Reduce unnecessary inspections
Rather than relying solely on scheduled checks, maintenance teams can focus their efforts where they are needed most.
Connected Lubrication in Mining and Aggregates
The episode highlights how connected lubrication is being implemented in industries such as aggregates and mining.
These environments often include large facilities, difficult-to-access equipment and assets spread across significant distances. Connecting lubrication systems can help maintenance personnel monitor equipment more efficiently while reducing the time required for routine inspections.
For operations focused on uptime and reliability, improved visibility can provide valuable support for day-to-day maintenance activities.
Supporting Reliability and Maintenance Goals
One of the major themes throughout the conversation is how connected lubrication supports larger reliability objectives.
When maintenance teams have better access to asset information, they can make faster decisions, improve planning and reduce the likelihood of lubrication-related issues going unnoticed. Connected lubrication can also help organizations standardize lubrication management practices and provide useful data to support continuous improvement initiatives.
By combining automatic lubrication with remote monitoring capabilities, facilities can take another step toward more proactive and data-driven maintenance programs.
The Future of Lubrication Management
As industrial facilities continue to adopt connected technologies, lubrication is becoming part of a broader digital maintenance strategy.
Fred and Travis discuss how connected lubrication helps bridge the gap between traditional maintenance practices and modern reliability programs by delivering better asset visibility, simplified monitoring and actionable operational data.
For organizations pursuing reliability excellence, connected lubrication represents an opportunity to improve lubrication management while supporting safer, more efficient maintenance operations.
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Episode Transcript
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Piece of machinery goes down and maybe
it's a simple bearing swap out.
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Say you're shorthanded and you now
have somebody you're paying $150, $200
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an hour, to do specialized
welding work, do that replacement.
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We spend a whole lot of time
and effort doing it that way.
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Welcome back to another
episode of perma Power Talk.
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I'm your host, Fred Ritenauer.
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And today I'm greeted with Travis
Stubblefield, a key account manager
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here at perma.
Travis, welcome to the pod.
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Thanks for having me.
Yeah. Excited to have you.
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We have a very interesting topic.
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Some would say
that it is the hottest off the press.
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And one of the things
that is garnering a lot of attention,
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not only from myself as an RSM out
in the field, just industry-wide.
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And that is what is known
as our LoRa technology.
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Yep. LoRa, long range.
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We're entering the age with everybody
else and everything else
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in the world
of connectedness and wireless
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and having a whole lot more
capability at a distance now.
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Right.
So obviously a lot coming with that.
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And like you said, hot
off the press, it's
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it's a lot of times where the conversation
starts, in this industry and,
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what a lot of people are looking
for out of the gate these days.
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Yeah, I would say it's here
and it's here to stay for the long haul.
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And it'll be cool
to have this conversation
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just to not only see what's going
on right now, but also where we think
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this is going to evolve to.
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But first, let's take a step back.
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You were a part of the LoRa technology
before we rolled it out into the field.
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And so can you kind of give us
a background of what that journey
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has been like and what it led
to as of today, and what it looks like?
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Sure. Yeah.
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And it's it's obviously
been a long time coming.
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So it's a process, that we as perma
have been working on
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for a long time because we see
where the, where things are going.
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Obviously, in the industry,
we want to make sure that, that
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our customers, have the best
capabilities that we can put out there.
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Right.
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So it's it's been a long time
of us trying to go from, right,
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in the 60s, it was a metal
can with some acid pushing pressure.
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Right.
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And that's basically what a single
point lubricator was all the way to now,
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we've had to totally learn again,
one, how to develop a product, but two
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how do we actually
position that in the world?
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What are the the, types of questions
we're going to run into that are different
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than what we may have done
in the past?
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And the same thing being right when
we get in front of the customer.
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Now, there may be a totally different
person that we're speaking to.
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So, for us, it was taking a total step
back and saying, what are the things
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that single point lubrication
and perma do really, really well.
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And how do we build on that?
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So, bit of a process,
a bit of a learning curve.
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But pretty much as soon as it's gotten
out in the world, it's it's been,
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sort of an automatic.
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I get it right.
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And in a lot of cases,
and not every single organization
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necessarily needs to go
the connected route,
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but you're going to have, at least
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a pretty clear delineation
of those are going to say, yes.
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Absolutely.
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That makes sense to me because
they're talking about it
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in other parts of their business
and in their, program.
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And then you're going to have the other
side that says, well, okay, maybe we don't
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it doesn't make sense for us yet.
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We're also seeing a bit
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Right?
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It's a different person now
entering that role, connected world.
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Right.
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Going away from true, what
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you know, repeated machine to sort
of the smart communication side of things,
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It's taken over more and more in other
aspects of our business as well.
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Right.
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Sensors go along with this, the data
they're using AI, that kind of thing too.
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So for us, it was taking a look back
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and saying, here's where
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Where and how do we fit in here?
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What can we use out of that to kind
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Yeah.
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Speaking of customers, can you let
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that are really grabbing onto this
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and being what I like to call
the early adopters of the technology
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who has kind of come on from, you know,
year one when we first started
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producing this or getting it out into
the industry to now who is, you know,
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catching wind of it and where
that traction is happening out there.
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Yet it's really all over. Right?
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I think when I first heard Long Range,
the exciting thing was, wow,
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you can talk to to 1.2 miles away,
you can have this communication, right?
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It's oh, it's great.
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What we immediately thought,
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Huge footprints, big spread out.
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Plants, make it a quarry or a mine.
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Something that's really,
really far spread out.
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And there's a lot of time involved
just getting to all your points,
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much less doing anything
with them, right?
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That was where initially, I think a lot
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What we're seeing now is that
everywhere we go, it really in
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any industry, there's a need
for the communication aspect of this.
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And so while yes, there is a long
distance that it can make, contact
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with on the long range side,
there's also Bluetooth,
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which is a much more, sort
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Right. It's been around longer.
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It's any industry
really of any footprint,
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any application really
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What it's doing is taking
what's really great
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about automatic lubrication,
and it's really building on to that.
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It's multiplying your team's time.
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It's giving you the ability
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to, monitor from afar and make
changes from afar if needed.
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But really, what it's doing
is empowering the people on your team,
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You know, even more, taking
it an extra, distance than, standard
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automatic lubrication. Yeah.
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You brought up aggregate
when you were giving that,
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example of the LoRa,
the capabilities and stuff like that.
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How is aggregate really
grabbing on to this?
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And is there a specific like,
application in that aggregate facility
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or even project that comes to your mind
that you might have been involved in?
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Yeah. And it's really kind of all over.
Right.
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When you talk about the connected
solution piece, it comes down to,
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it's no different than the single
point lubricator you have now,
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with the exception of right, being able
to see what's going on all the time
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from a central location.
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So when you talk about, say, a quarry,
for example, some of these have miles
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of conveyors pulling material
around a facility right.
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And all of those have, bearings
up and down.
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They have motors pulling, pulling
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and pushing those belts or chains,
depending on what their design is.
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But, think about the amount of time
it would take a tech on site to not
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only travel that distance back and forth,
but actually go up to that point.
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And if they're pushing a grease gun,
it's giving each one of these a shot, right?
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Hoping you’re not pushing contamination
in there, making sure everything's
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good on a visual, auditory, whatever
basis they're using to evaluate it.
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Even with single point lubricators
that aren't connected right with anybody,
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it's not a perfect set it and forget it.
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As far as putting it out
there and never thinking about it again
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and going to swap it out in six
months when you need to, right?
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And you still need to make
sure it's actually pushing
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and grease is not something
clogged in the line.
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Somebody didn't drag it off
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with a piece of equipment
on accident, whatever that is.
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And so with the connected solutions
piece, particularly in a place like,
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quarries or mines where you're
not getting to those points
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all the time, you're not walking
by them all day, every day.
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And there is a lot of time cost
to go and inspect all that.
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For them, a huge value for them is being able
to monitor all that from one place.
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Maybe it's the reliability
supervisor's office, right?
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And so they come in and say,
hey, I've got four problems.
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I gotta go out and look at.
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They can target that time and effort
to the things that are really,
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critical for them.
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So maybe it's a, a blockage
that the unit picked up,
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then go right to that issue
and address it as opposed to,
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all the extra time of purely
do the doing the inspections
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and investigations help you then catch
the error on your own as well.
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Yeah, I think that's one
of the biggest
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benefits, especially when
I speak to people, is that
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we're not saying put these lubricators
out there and don't worry about them
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until that red dot comes up
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that you have to exchange the lube
cup or the cartridge on it,
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but rather, how can we enhance
their team to be more efficient?
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Because every single year,
just like us in sales,
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it's like, here's
your territory expectations.
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You know, our boss isn't going to come
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to us and be like, hey,
I expect you to do less.
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You want to grow
with the industry, with the trends,
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and you want to keep pushing forward.
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And so what I notice, as well
as all of these quarries, their
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their expectations are rising
from their leadership
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and their organization to keep
doing more, producing more,
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but with the same amount of work force
or maybe in some cases a little bit less.
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And so when I'm out there
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having those conversations with, we'll
keep it on the quarry topic right now,
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it really is fascinating
to see some people where
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it takes a little bit longer
for that light to go off of, you know,
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where is the value, why is it like,
why are you even showing me this to
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then when you start
positioning it where it's like,
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no, this is this is an insurance
piece on your equipment
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because we want to make sure
you guys stay up and running.
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So that way you can produce
that extra tonnage.
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This year we want to make sure
your employees are more efficient
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on their routes,
with our remote mounting kits
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or the things that we have,
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we want to make sure
that safety is top of mind
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because we know how big
it is in those industries.
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And so what it does is it really
encompasses and embodies
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what their plan is doing, but it allows
them to get pulled on another project
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and not have to worry about, oh
man, did I get that or did I not?
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They have the assurance factor
from the dashboard that we offer.
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Exactly right.
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A lot of these facilities
are remote locations, right.
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And so you may have a challenge
of, not having a huge population
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to support your site.
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And so a lot of times
there may be, high turnover.
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You have people who aren't, don't
necessarily have the lube guys
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been there 20 years, knows every
piece of machine by heart, right.
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But like you said, it's like
multiplying your force.
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So you have obviously people
on the facility that you want to make
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sure are doing what, what
you need them to be doing.
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Right.
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In some cases, if they're
a little bit shorthanded and the,
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Piece of machinery goes down and maybe
it's a simple bearing swap out.
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But let's say you're shorthanded
and you now have somebody you're paying
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$150, $200 an hour, maybe
to do specialized welding work,
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getting pulled over
to do, do that replacement for them.
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Right.
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And so, as you mentioned, right,
the dashboard is having that stoplight.
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So when their team comes in, in the
morning, they can go and look, okay,
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this is the top two things. I got two red
lights up here I got to go look at.
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Then go right there.
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Spend their time
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very effectively addressing the things
that really need to be fixed.
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And then, right,
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that opens them more time up, multiplies
their effectiveness so they can go out
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and kind of do, what they're
ultimately wanting to do with that job.
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Right.
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So I liken it maybe
to a commute to work.
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We're spending, say, two hours
a day getting to and from work.
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That's, you know, 40-hour weeks
and like that call it three months
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of a year, extra that you're
basically going to work
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just for your commute to get
to the job you're trying to do.
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Right.
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So, a lot like that for a maintenance
team in any, operation where,
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I mean, it seems required
all of that work is required
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so that the thing they're doing
that makes them money, is able to operate.
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So, I guess as, as you're kind of getting
on site with some of these facilities,
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particularly maybe in aggregate,
we can go back to, vacs.
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I know you do a lot
of work with that industry.
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What are some of the things that, for them
really kind of stand out to say,
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hey, look, this connected piece
above and beyond, even just standard
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lubrication, automatic lubrication,
is something that really is going to make
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a difference for us, when they look
at investing in their operation.
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They can actually
have a pretty good idea of,
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when that equipment will go down,
or at least have an early warning sign.
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So that unplanned downtime
becomes planned downtime.
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And then on the lubrication
side, it's the same thing, right?
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It's understanding what's going
on and then doing something with it.
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