Imagine this scenario for the future – labor shortages will turn the recruitment of service personell into a real challenge. The increasing share of electronics, sensors and software will make „debugging“ your machine much more cumbersome than in the past and you have to call your dealer, who might just has to call your OEM in return. Downtime is the consequence.
Moving a spare machine up to your region will take time and its costly, road transportation for a 20-ton harvester goes into 100+ € range. Thats why short term renting wasn’t an option before either.
What if you could simply split your risk, by, lets say, having four small harvesters instead of one large one? You could move one harvester around for less than 200€ of logistical costs and if something breaks down, you still have 75% of your capacity remaining.
Of course a fleet of small harvesters, even if they are unmanned, will pose new challenges like field logistics or two-stage sorting and harvesting. We believe, the bottom line effect is still sizable and its worth to investigate this kind of future – let’s talk to reimagine farming together!
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