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CMC Industrial Electronics

AGI CMC • 855-206-5612https://www.aggrowth.com/cmc

Listening to end users leads to new, hot hazard monitoring equipment

CMC Industrial Electronics was founded in 1997 in Burnaby, BC, Canada with the mission to protect people, property, and operations through the design, manufacture, and marketing of hazard monitoring systems for the grain, feed, and milling industries.

With the end user always in mind, CMC has developed hazard monitoring technology that is simple to deploy and integrate with existing systems and can be installed easily by qualified electrical contractors.

Grain Journal in August contacted CMC President Bob Reis about the company’s newest and hottest products, keys to success, and trends the company responds to in the grain and feed industries.

What’s New

We just recently launched two additional sensors – a plugged chute sensor and a slack chain sensor, both of which easily integrate into our existing intrinsically-safe digital HazMon network. We are also in the final stages of significant improvements to our line of HazMon controllers and our grain temperature monitoring products. We hope to roll these out later in 2016.

What’s Hot

We are having fantastic success with our Roadmap To HazMon Safety™ program and its intent to live up to our company mission of protecting human life and property through excellent customer support in the form of product training and education. Our aim to reach as many installers and users of our systems and help them get the best utility possible from our products.

Grain and Feed Industry Trends

We are seeing significant downturn and also a shift in focus for investments in the grain industry. With recent record harvests and corn sitting at a low price per bushel, many farmers and storage facilities are holding on to the product longer in the hope of an increase in value in the coming year. This is shifting investment away from grain-moving machinery and into grain storage and management products. Many in the industry are jumping in and trying to leverage this situation.

Biggest Challenge

We face the perennial challenge associated with most businesses – sustainable growth. We are always looking to enter new markets and develop new or modify existing products to serve those markets. An additional challenge we face is that when and wherever possible, we avoid selling our system and walking away leaving the customer holding a pile of parts. We always attempt to provide training and education to our business partners and customers on how to get the best utility from our technology.

Keys to Company Success

We listen to our channel partners, installers, and very importantly, to the end users of our products. We try to be responsible and responsive to their needs.

We give back to the industry. Our founder Doug Forst, serves on the GEAPS Continuing Education Program Oversight Committee and has written several GEAPS electrical safety courses. We are passionate about the industry in which we live and operate daily.

We differentiate and lead. We were the first to offer fully-packaged, easily-integrated, and expandable HazMon systems for the machines typically used in the grain industry through our HazMon-In-A-Box™ kits. We constantly search for ways to make our systems straightforward to install and maintain, all while delivering a low cost of ownership. We offer comprehensive training to the users of our systems to make sure they get the maximum utility from our systems and can help develop a culture of safety at their place of work.

Recent Company Highlights

Within the last 12 months we launched our Field Services Division, and we are having a great measure of success in providing comprehensive inspection and training services to our customers in the field. We work closely with our channel partners to try to ensure quality and consistent installations and with our end users to ensure they get the utmost utility from our industry-leading systems.

Reprinted from Grain Journal September/October 2016 Issue


About AGI CMC

Lenexa, KS
855-206-5612
https://www.aggrowth.com/cmc

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