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Dan Blessing

Dan Blessing

President of ABW Innovations, a sensor and temperature monitoring company serving the ice cream industry, and owner of Island Cream Co. in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Jul 27, 2026

9:32
So tell me a little bit about this process of um helping people in in really monitoring temperature because we are in an industry where our product line is so fickle and and one or two degrees can be the difference between a great product and a terrible product and understanding that is really important so tell us a little bit about you know some of the stuff that you do in order to help people all around the country all around the world
10:05
Well, the foundation to what we call the shop century system.
10:08
Again, we started out making a product, as I said, the Cone Genie, out of necessity.
10:13
Well, I was owning an island cream company in New Orleans, excuse me, in Maui.
10:18
Immediately, short order, I found out, man, that's a lot of product, a lot of money.
10:23
Things happen between employee mistakes and equipment failures everywhere.
10:27
and with my background in electronic security I immediately had the access to build a system that I put in and it monitors our equipment did great and as I began to look at the industry and see what's going on I realized no one is really doing this real well meaning we could be so far advanced even beyond what's available.

6 MINS LATER

17:06
Well, and another thing that you mentioned too, which I don't think a lot of people, I don't know whether, I'm sure you sell it, but this process of, yeah, you may not be getting alerts, but if you're holding temperature on average is slowly increasing, is there not a danger of, hey, my compressor's slowly going out?

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