Temperature Monitoring with Dan Blessing of ABW Innovation

well that and again that's probably what drives a lot of entrepreneurs in survival you don't know what to do you'll you'll bootstrap it together with duct tape and super glue and hopefully make a little bit of money mate um i can tell you from personal experience that And I've said this to must be thousands of people in the ice cream industry.

You live by temperature, you die by temperature.

And we have a facility here in St. Louis that we have freezers full of product.

We have dipping cabinets.

We have blast freezers and so forth.

And there have been many, many times where ABW Innovations, either a text or an email or a phone call, and even a call from the president of operations at ABW to see what we're doing here and whether we're aware of stuff going on, has saved our bacon.

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

Well, the foundation to what we call the shop century system.

Again, we started out making a product, as I said, the Cone Genie, out of necessity.

Well, I was owning an island cream company in New Orleans, excuse me, in Maui.

Immediately, short order, I found out, man, that's a lot of product, a lot of money.

Things happen between employee mistakes and equipment failures everywhere.

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.

So I started studying that industry.

And through a process of events, partnerships with some people, because I had some patents, other people had patents, there's licenses involved.

I thought if I could make the best system, and that's what we ended up doing through different arrangements.

And that is the birth of the Shop Century.

So, going from monitoring a temperature now to we can do things that blow people's mind.

It's so much more than monitoring temperature.

If there's one thing I've learned, I've always told my staff of every company I've owned, there's two rules to life I believe that lead to success.

One, do not go beyond your scope of authority and don't go beyond your scope of knowledge.

And unfortunately, we have so many people in this internet age that they'll read something that they agree with and think that's truth.

And that is so applicable.

They're beyond their scope of knowledge when it comes to how to monitor equipment in the ice cream industry or food.

Because we deal with food people all over the nation.