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 […]
Monatliche Archive:November 2019
Digital Scenario Consultant
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 […]
Sweet Potato Farming in Düsseldorf
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 […]
360° Machinery Trading
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 […]
Used Machinery Services
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 […]
SCRUM at Schmiede.one
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. […]
Repair Shop Digitization
When refurbishing or repairing used machines, you often end up looking in catalogues to find the parts you need. With our „Werkstatt-App“ / „Garage-App“ this becomes a no-brainer. No more paper work and switching between catalogues and computers. You can enter your machines serial number and we fetch the machines detailed configuration so that you […]
Appraisal App for Used Machinery
Buying old machinery back is cumbersome – incomplete records, areas of the machine that remained unseen, paperwork that needs to be fed into the system… Our client BOMAG requested us to solve this problem by creation an Inspection app, where machine trade-ins undergo a standardized process and the key aspects of each specific machine type […]
Instant Offer Generation for New Machines
In the agricultural industry, getting an offer for a new tractor or harvester is tough. You have to call your sales rep and dealer, you will have to negotiate discounts and eventually the configuration you received is not technically viable or suitable to your soil conditions etc. At schmiede.one we strive to create user-friendly digital […]
Machine Learning Vision for Harvesters
To make our harvesting robot „see“ and „perceive“ the real world, we experimented with various kind of sensors ranging from LIDARs, Radards and Stereo Cameras. We eventually settled for the latter considering the dense data such devices provide compared to the rather sparse information coming from affordable LIDARS. The cost aspect has been stressed from […]