A construction SaaS background revealed how missing materials and trucking delays cost real money. At Xerotech, working with manufacturers showed that IoT sensors flood production lines with data, but only the right questions turn it into decisions that hit the bottom line.
How did you get interested in Industry 4.0? I think that started really when I got my feet wet with construction in the SaaS environment. You know, when we started looking at the trucking element of construction, you know, when projects are starting 2, 3 weeks late because they don't have the base aggregates on the ground, the foundation can't even start, right? So I started looking at, you know, like, why is the industry doing the things they're doing? And it really started making me ask different questions. So as I joined the ranks of Xerotech and started working with more manufacturers, I was super intrigued with data and the questions that you're able to ask against the datasets you have. And I realized in the manufacturing space, there's way more, especially with IoT, IIoT, the advancement there, there's way more sensors on so many different lines that the data is just, it's incredible. So if you know what you're looking for, the right questions to ask, it can paint a phenomenal picture. So I think that was just that I hate status quo, it's always been this way. When you have data at your fingertips that you can make real-life decisions to affect the bottom line, it really started to kind of open my eyes to what's possible.
