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It has been fun trying to build a brand around the word grease. We came up with GreaseBoss for hardware product and GreaseCloud for the software platform
Absolutely. We've been throwing ideas around for OilBoss, AirBoss, FuelBoss and ExplosiveBoss. Obviously we're going to to focus on getting GreaseBoss right first but there are some other very exciting problems out there to solve!
Yes adoption risk is very real for us. We have encountered some operators who are as you describe but interestingly liked the idea for keeping other operators in check particularly in cases where there are teams of people doing the lubrication.
Hi, awesome idea! Right now we’ve built in the ability for users to assign a preferred order to each zerk that is applied to the grease run. Obviously this isn’t practical for users with lots of zerks (some of our customers have 1000s of zerks!) but being able to automate the ordering process using sensors sounds like a good feature. I like to think of it as the google maps of grease runs. In terms of mapping zerks in 3D space- check out ‘digital twins’, this is something we are keen to explore down the track.