Our dev team is now more than 10 people strong. We maintain strong emphasis on React, Node and Postgres as well as Mongo. Our robotics and vision team also makes heavy use on Python. Every other friday is used to educate ourselves about new subjects and we’re asked to share what we’ve learned or adapted a while ago in medium posts .
Trading in used equipment usually starts by experienced personell ticking off checkboxes on a checksheet. Similary when conducting quality or Lean audits, paper documents are completed and then archived, resulting in hard to oversee statistical evaluation and deviating standards between users.
ServOS is now enabling a number of companies to create audits and checklists without any software development expertise, by using our drag-and-drop audit creator and pushing tasks to operators on their field app
Current use cases include used machinery appraisals, rental machine management, shopfloor audits and even spare parts purchasing and remote service support
With myGRIMME one of the first projects around the GRIMME digital customer journey has been launched: A digital assistant portal for GRIMME customers.
The portal allows the users to monitor their machinery in real-time through an installed telemetry unit on the machinery. The unit provides the current location as well as detailed information on machinery settings and performance.
Optimised for mobile device usage, the portal enhances the access throughout all devices, responding to an increasing demand for mobile access and multiple user scenarios, ranging from an office scenario to on-field usage.
Providing bundled information on manuals and spare parts, myGRIMME is a one point access which provides all crucial information including connectivity features on the machinery.
Building upon the users‘ needs as well as responding to the market requests, the next steps of the GRIMME digital customer journey are laid out: a fully fledged product advisor and machinery configurator.
The new version of harvey.one, our semi-autonomous root crop harvester, is now available on the market.
The machine now relies on vision-based row following as well as a stereo-camera controlled soil and pace monitor.
From a structural perspective, several mechanical components as well as overall dimensions have been improved, so the machine can now also be easily fitted on a trailer for more affordable transportation, thus enabling new business models such as renting
Imagine this scenario for the future – labor shortages will turn the recruitment of service personell into a real challenge. The increasing share of electronics, sensors and software will make „debugging“ your machine much more cumbersome than in the past and you have to call your dealer, who might just has to call your OEM in return. Downtime is the consequence.
Moving a spare machine up to your region will take time and its costly, road transportation for a 20-ton harvester goes into 100+ € range. Thats why short term renting wasn’t an option before either.
What if you could simply split your risk, by, lets say, having four small harvesters instead of one large one? You could move one harvester around for less than 200€ of logistical costs and if something breaks down, you still have 75% of your capacity remaining.
Of course a fleet of small harvesters, even if they are unmanned, will pose new challenges like field logistics or two-stage sorting and harvesting. We believe, the bottom line effect is still sizable and its worth to investigate this kind of future – let’s talk to reimagine farming together!
Learn more about our harvester on www.farmlab.one or send us a mail to hello@schmiede.one
Technical Consultation for new product purchases is usually done through a visit of your sales rep or dealer. These meetings can now be supplemented with our scenario consultant!
Your trusted product expert can show you how different machine models will perform on your farm and what effect this will have on the bottom line.
For Grimme Group, we implemented this concept as „Farm Analyzer“ – specific to the needs of beet crop farming.
In order to test our machine development accordingly, it was clear to us that we wanted to work with our own test field. Not only for the harvest results themselves, but also to get to know and understand the entire cultivation process.
Fortunately, through a contact we can use an experimental field in Meerbusch, near Düsseldorf. At the beginning of the cultivation period (mid-May), we cultivated 18 rows of 100 metres each here. The cultivation in mulch foil and in dams is complex, but from our perspective it was clearly worth it. For a good comparison, we cultivated root crops such as carrots, parsnips and onions without mulch foil, which made weed growth much stronger and difficult to control with our resources. The use of mulch film makes setting the cuttings and irrigation more complex, but this was nevertheless easy for us to implement and is in good proportion to other maintenance requirements.
When buying used machinery online, there usually is a big trust trust gap between buyers and sellers due to lack of transparency on the machine record.
Incomplete information about the equipment configuration, poor images and suspicious contact details will require buyers to inspect more machines on-site than their time allows. Remote purchases become impossible.
We solve this problem by providing a new level of information and insight to agricultural machinery trading. Our marketplace fetches machine configurations from our database, so no more question marks about the configuration remain.
Numerous dealers are integrated so you receive more choice than on individual portals alone.
Furthermore, selected machines have a 360° degree snapshot taken, allowing you to travel around the machine to learn about all highlights without having to travel there first.
Learn more about our marketplace on used.grimme.com
GRIMME Used – Your portal for used potato harvesters, planters and agricultural machinery of the brand GRIMME
> Solutions for used potato technology, sugar beet technology and vegetable technology
Our portal for used agricultural machinery of the GRIMME brand is aimed at farmers, contractors and dealers. No matter whether you are looking for or want to sell used potato harvesters, used planters or used self-propelled machines of the GRIMME brand. We help you to sell, buy or refurbish your used machine. Even coveted machines such as the SE 75 or SE 150-60 are easy to find with us and can be purchased in the appropriate configuration. Talk to us! Our service portal for used potato technology, vegetable technology and sugar beet technology is your contact point on the Internet when it comes to used machines and their handling for the GRIMME brand
> Used GRIMME machines for sale made easy
You want to sell your used GRIMME agricultural machinery, but have neither the time nor the desire to create advertisements or to negotiate with prospective buyers? Then our sales agent is just the right thing for you! We take care of the buyer search as well as the sales processing. We also determine the optimal market value for your GRIMME machine, which takes into account configuration and condition. We are experts in the sale of trailed harvesting equipment, self-propelled machines, planting machines or other GRIMME brand products. All you have to do is enter your serial number in our query form and answer some questions about the condition of your used GRIMME machine. Then we will immediately show you the estimated market price of your used agricultural machine. You can decide whether you want to trust us with the processing or market the machine yourself. Our services are free of charge
> Used GRIMME machines for search made easy
There are numerous marketplaces on the Internet, but checking advertisements is time-consuming and not always characterized by success. Often detailed information is missing, like row width or the wear of the machine is only insufficiently recognizable We look for the suitable used agricultural machine for you! Send us some parameters of your search request and we will send you some non-binding offers within a few days. This service is also non-binding for you. You decide whether we should support you in further processing.
> Used GRIMME machines for refurbishment made easy
Another service we offer is the reconditioning of your used GRIMME agricultural machinery. We are specialized in self-propelled machines and would be pleased to submit you a non-binding offer for the preparation of your used GRIMME agricultural machine. Of course, enquiries and quotations are also free of charge and non-binding for you. GRIMME Gebrauchte – Your solution portal for used agricultural machinery of the GRIMME brand. Do you have any questions? We would be happy to advise you at gebrauchtmaschinen@grimme.de. You can also reach us by phone at +49 5491 666-2584.
Building new pieces of software every day, our different product development teams require a solid system for visual management to keep track of the tasks at hand and delegate work.
Since working with typical scrum tools such as storypoint-estimates, kanban-boards and daily standups, we defined our own core methods to cater to our unique circumstances.
We have teams working with visual management boards and dev-teams that focus on jira. However, daily standups to discuss tasks are a standard, just as much as retrospectives and backlog generation.
We chose not to dub it „scrum“ internally, since it turned into its very own version over time. Just like any management practices, its subject to continuous improvement – ultimately making us better at building new innovations faster.
