Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 0:03
What if you could give your grain facility a CAT scan? That’s one way today’s inspection technologies are helping operators see what is happening inside concrete structures, silos, and other hard-to-access areas, often without climbing, confined space entry, or disrupting operations. Stay tuned. Hello and welcome to the show. Welcome to the Whole Grain Podcast, where we explore the people, innovations, and trends shaping the grain handling and processing industry. This show brings grain professionals together from 111 countries around the world. If you’re a regular listener, thank you for being part of the growing global community. If you’re new to the show, be sure to subscribe to Whole Grain on your favorite podcast app so each new episode is automatically delivered to your device as soon as it is released. The show is also easy to share with colleagues and members of your professional network. You can find each and every episode along with the show notes and transcripts also at Geaps.com slash Whole Grain. We’re also grateful for the support of GEAPS partner, Custom Concrete Specialists, whose commitment to the grain industry helps make conversations like this possible. My name is Jim Lenz, your host and director of global education and training at GEAPS, where our mission at the Grain Elevator and Processing Society is to champion, connect, and serve the global grain industry and our members. Today we’re exploring how modern inspection technologies are transforming facility assessments across the grain industry, from interior drone inspections to ground penetrating radar. These tools are helping organizations improve safety, reduce risk, gain visibility into hard-to-access areas, and make smarter long-term maintenance and capital planning decisions. Joining us is Hayes Guillot Inspection and Technology Specialist. With Custom Concrete Specialists, Hayes brings a unique background in precision agriculture, drone technology, and facility inspections, helping grain organizations better understand the condition of their assets through innovative inspection technologies and data-driven insights. All that and more coming up next. Custom Concrete Specialist has you covered with concrete style of repairs, having completed over 1,500 projects. CCS is the nation’s leader in structural assessments, preventative maintenance, and emergency repairs for terminal and country grain elevators. CCS is dedicated to providing advanced evaluation technology, a skilled and experienced team, and unwavering commitment to safety. CCS provides nationwide services of shock creek liners, catastrophic failure repairs, carbon fiber solutions, crack and spalling repairs, hopper installation and repairs, and roof coatings. Visit their website at CCSgrouponline.com. Today
Meet CCS And Hayes Geel
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 3:02
we’re diving into a topic that every facility, regardless of sunlights, can benefit from how modern inspection technologies are transforming the way we assess and maintain our operations. I’m joined by Hayes Guillot. Hayes is the inspection and technology specialist with Custom Concrete Specialists. Hayes, welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks, Jim.
Hayes Guillot 3:24
I uh excited to be here.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 3:26
Yeah, thanks for having me. Well, I know very much about your organization that you come from, Custom Concrete Specialists. They’ve played a big role at GEAPS Exchange and a big member of GEAPS for a long time. And your role is so interesting. I know I had an interview with your CEO not too long ago, and I’ll make reference to that in the show notes, but so great to have you. Tell us about your role. Also, I want you to tell folks about your technical background, your education. I think that’s really important. Just in general, it’s very interesting, but I think it certainly relates, of course, to the topic of this show. But also tell us about how custom concrete specialists play a role in the grain industry. So if you can kind of tackle that to start, that’d be great. Thank you, Hazen.
Hayes Guillot 4:07
Yeah, yeah, definitely. So yeah, my uh my background, I uh went to a two-year university in uh Kansas and got a degree in precision agriculture. Uh while there, I I didn’t even know drones played a part in in ag you know, an ag industry. And I kind of fell into that, kind of got interested uh in it from a professor of mine, and he showed us kind of the basics of how to fly and kind of some of the work he’s done in the past and some uh opportunity we had there. And it started with kind of just taking some drone photos and videos of we had a tech farm at the industry. So while we were harvesting, we would take some cool uh marketing type shots for the college to promote, and then turn more into doing actual analysis of fields, multi-spectral, NDVI, uh thermal, and all that. And so from there, I was like, man, this is really cool, and this might be something that I could utilize in an industry after I’m graduated. So yeah, and then then there I um I went, I went into a drone position for a company that’s uh sold to many different industries, uh just cutting edge equipment for everything from the geospatial survey world to the agricultural world and many different sectors, everything from uh your typical local farmer who wanted to get into some newer technology to help his farm efficiency-wise, and you know, not having to be out, you know, checking fields by a car, you know, you can use a drone, some of that. And then uh spraying, we I I did uh spray drones, and so a lot of that. And so that that technology and that experience kind of led me to meeting uh Cheyenne and getting involved with CCS and on a different something that I was not familiar with either was the whole uh the facilities, you know, where does that grain that we were farming and taking out of the field, where’s where’s that go next, you know? So, and you know, the the facilities and the people that that handle that. So um, yeah, my role is inspection and technology specialists. So I work very closely with with our customers and assessing and identifying what is going on on their facility, where is their repair needs, and then I use technology to assist in that.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 6:42
That’s fantastic. Thank you for that quick overview. Custom concrete specialists. I mean, they support these grain elevators with the concrete silos, maintaining them, repairing them. I mean, isn’t it true they can last you know upwards of a hundred years if they’re properly maintained? And that’s kind of where your goal comes in. So talk about that, talk about your organization briefly and how they serve the grain industry at large.
Hayes Guillot 7:03
Yeah, definitely. So CCS Group as a whole, we uh we’re here to help maintain and repair your facilities, everything from uh crack and patch to structural liners to roof coatings to metal bin foundations. Um look, we always say we we do everything to a grain bin, but build them new.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 7:23
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So that’s why inspections matter more than ever. Hayes, let’s start broad.
Why Facilities Miss Inspections
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 7:30
When you walk into a grain facility today, what are the most common challenges you’re seeing related to inspection and maintenance?
Hayes Guillot 7:39
Yeah, uh off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is these uh facilities are running full speed at all times. They’re they’re very busy. So that being said, you know, when they’re running full speed like that, there’s uh sometimes, you know, not the ability to have an empty grain bin for for the guys on the facility to go in and look at visually. And that being said, a lot of times I hear, yo, I we don’t know the last time we’ve been able to take a look inside of that bin and see what’s going on. So that’s a common theme there. Or we don’t know how these silos were built, you know, we know what year they were built, but how much rebar was in the silo when they built it, you know. What was the weather like when they built it? Did the concrete cure properly, or did they get a freeze one day when they were trying to cure, you know, slip and cure a portion of that silo? So that’s where our technology comes in and kind of giving you a very technical, very detailed look at what’s going on on your uh facility.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 8:46
Thank you. As we look at grain facilities, a lot of these facilities, I mean, they’re busy places, certainly sometimes even more than others. But is part of the challenge that maintenance and inspection can become reactive instead of proactive for facilities and organizations?
Hayes Guillot 9:03
Definitely, definitely. Yeah, I do hear you know, a lot of times of, hey, we we have concrete that we found when we were loading out this bin, or oh, we’re walking around the facility and we’ve noticed some concrete around the the ground here that you know when you look up, oh, that’s coming from uh a spalled area or a cornice that’s that’s broken off and fallen. We’re really lucky that it didn’t uh didn’t hit someone, right? And so that’s when they, you know, uh sometimes they’ll call me and say, hey, we need you to come look at this. Uh this is what’s going on. But on the flip side of that, part of my role here is educating customers on what we do so that it can be more of a proactive inspection as opposed to reactive.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 9:51
Yeah,
Drone Inspections For Roof To Hopper
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 9:52
that’s great. Let’s kind of jump to interior and exterior drone inspections. Let’s get into the technology. When people hear drone inspection, they may picture an exterior flyover, but your work at Custom Concrete Specialists includes both interior and exterior inspections. What does that look like in practice? I’m so curious.
Hayes Guillot 10:15
Yeah, yeah, definitely. So we uh we use both exterior and interior drones to uh inspect these facilities. The interior drone is a confined space rated and designed drone. It actually was designed to go into sewers. That’s what the original manufacturer designed them for. And we identified, well, if you can go into a manhole into a sewer, why couldn’t you go into a manhole in a in a silo, right?
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 10:46
Exactly. Makes sense.
Hayes Guillot 10:48
The drone itself is a cage, call it a beach ball. It’s about 20 inches by 20 inches round. It has thermal LIDAR, a 4K camera. Yeah, it’s a great tool. So kind of the workflow is we most of the time go in from a top manhole opening and inspect the roof structure, the beams, and then uh the you know, the openings, the vents, all of that that’s up there, all of the walls, all the way around. And then if the silo is completely empty and we have access to the the hopper area, we’ll go all the way down and look at the hopper area. And what makes this uh really nice is the ability to get right up close to a problem area or to a beam pocket, as opposed to you know traditional ways of inspecting the interior silos, whereas uh to go down in a bosun’s chair with a flashlight and a camera and kind of swivel your way around and try to take pictures, but there wasn’t really a way to get up against the wall to really uh inspect those cracks and issues. And then the exterior. So the exterior is just a small exterior drone, and it is very helpful in looking at the exterior cracking on the silos as well as the roof areas, the cornice, and you know, in those tight apex walls, makes it really a really handy tool as opposed to using some binoculars to go look up there and trying to take a picture through some binoculars.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 12:25
Right. Yeah, you’re kind of taking a chance and taking a risk and really not getting a sound understanding of what the shape or condition of uh the silo is. That’s so interesting. I mean, interior inspections are especially interesting in this industry because there’s so many places that are, like you said, so hard to access. And this drone technology and CCS group and decisions they make in executing and supporting facilities. I mean, that’s making the biggest difference inside a facility, isn’t it?
Hayes Guillot 12:54
A hundred percent. And you know, our goal with using all this technology as well is to uh be able to give all of this information to the customer to help them make decisions as well based on actual hard evidence. And then it also helps us internally when we’re recommending repairs or uh proposing repairs to these facilities. We we can go back and review this data and say this spot specifically needs to be fixed at this elevation, on on this heading, all of that. So it it it helps all around for sure.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 13:35
CCS group has uh clearly made the decision to uh uh leverage technology that exists and ever-changing technology, so and then the people skills uh that are required to do that. And that’s where you come in here, along with your CEO who’s uh been a big supporter of this and a practitioner himself, but you’ve really helped that organization. So this is great to have someone like you to talk about this. I’m curious
Safety And Speed Benefits
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 13:59
from a safety standpoint, what changes when you send technology into a space instead of sending a person?
Hayes Guillot 14:06
Definitely, yeah. At uh, you know, at very basic level, you’re not putting a person in there, right? You’re not you’re not putting a person in there and exposing them to harmful gases, fall risk, you know, uh even in a bosun’s chair, you know, you you have to you there’s a lot of risk there. You’re being suspended down. When our guys, you know, are working inside the silo doing repairs, you know, there’s hole watch and air monitoring. There’s a lot that goes into that to make sure that when someone is inside of a silo, that they’re in there and everything pertaining to their work environment is safe. So taking yeah, taking that out of the equation is definitely definitely a big, big um advantage.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 14:51
Yeah. Safety, so critical. And then not only safety, but efficiency in in terms of this case from an efficiency standpoint. How does this help the client?
Hayes Guillot 15:02
Yeah, so the efficiency, I mean, I can inspect a silo in about 10-15 minutes uh average. Is that right? Wow. Yeah, yeah. And I’m I’m and most of the time when I’m out there doing inspections, it’s it’s multiple, multiple silos, right? So to be able to do each silo in about 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the silo, um, it it it makes it uh makes it really, really uh efficient. And actually a lot of times my customers are surprised about how quickly we can do this. A lot of time they’re like, oh, this is gonna be a multiple-day thing, right? Oh no, most of the time I can I can do all this in a in a day or part part of a day, even.
GPR CAT Scan For Concrete
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 15:50
Fantastic. So I know you mentioned uh a little bit ground penetrating radar, which is seeing below the surface, right? Yep. Let’s shift below the surface, ground penetrating radar. Let’s focus on GPR, ground penetrating radar, but maybe unfamiliar to some listeners. So let’s just go into that. How would you describe to our listeners what it does in just plain language?
Hayes Guillot 16:17
Yeah, though the way I always describe it to someone is uh it’s a it’s a CAT scan of your silo. So ground penetrating radar is sending uh radar waves into a structure or into a slab. When those waves hit a hard surface, they come back at different rates, which shows visually. So on um on a silo, we are looking for the rebar a lot of times, the depth of the rebar, and the depth of the the wall as a whole. Currently, we get a boom lift. I have a scanner, it looks like a remote control car almost. It’s got a handle, and I push it up against the silo, and we go all the way up to the cornice, and that’s recording every single piece of rebar in that silo and it’s where it’s placed.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 17:10
Wow. You’re doing what the medical field has been doing a while. You’re taking this to the grain facilities. I would imagine the reactions by some people who are there may be observing you, or what is their reaction like when they first see that?
Hayes Guillot 17:22
Yeah, they are uh really, really impressed by, you know, even if I because a lot of times what I would do is I’ll show them the first three or four feet as I go up, and then it shows on the screen, and I can kind of scroll back and say, okay, here’s the first piece of rebar we found, and then five inches up, here’s another one, and then the next one is seven inches. So I can show them in a very small span of measurement, you know, four or five pieces of rebar, and they’re like, wow, this is this is pretty crazy.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 17:55
That’s great. So it’s a little bit of what ground penetrating radar is, GPR. We’ll hear that. But let’s talk about the value that GPR provides in grain facilities and industrial settings.
Speaker 1 18:10
Yeah, so in grain facilities specifically, a lot of times when I’m doing my uh brief with a customer, my before I go out to the to the site, kind of getting everything together, I always ask if they have construction blueprints from or engineer drawings from when the silo was originally constructed. And sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. If they do, then what’s great about that is we can compare what the silo was designed to have, rebar wise and construction-wise, versus what we actually found. And if if that’s apples to apples, right. And uh yeah, and if they don’t, then no harm, no harm, no foul. We’re we’re gonna find out where where that rebar is, right? What we’re doing is identifying if there is sections of the silo or silo as a whole that is structurally deficient or lacking rebar.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 19:08
Yeah, yeah, that’s awesome. What a great tool. Because before GPR, ground penetrating radar, everything else was an assumption. And you can do improve a facility, but by having an organization, a partnering organization like CCS Group, you really are discovering almost everything you can for the support structure. I mean, what what kinds of issues can GPR help identify before they become more serious?
Hayes Guillot 19:40
Yeah, the biggest one is the structural deficiency or lacking rebar. So if they didn’t place enough rebar in, or even if they put the rebar too far to the inside or too far to the outside, that’s gonna show in some different ways. Too far the outside shows with more cracking and spalling on the outside. And uh too far the inside would be the same. You’re gonna have cracking and spalling on the inside, which we can then also see with that internal drone. And then based on you know, a calculation of height, diameter of the bin, we can uh identify how much rebar was supposed to be in there versus what was actually found and give you kind of a uh a percentage of deficiency that that structure has.
Reports That Move Board Decisions
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 20:32
That’s fantastic. One thing I find valuable is that this is not just an inspection, it’s also documentation. What does the client receive when the inspection is complete?
Hayes Guillot 20:44
They receive every bit of information that I’ve collected in reports, uh very detailed reports. So specifically with the GPR, it’s gonna be a chart slash graph type report that shows the elevation at which every piece of rebar was found, the spacing of the rebar, and then the depth of the rebar in the silo. And that’s gonna be actually color uh coded as well to anything outside of the standard. So if we had those original engineered drawings that I previously mentioned, and we and I put those in there, I could say if it was uh hypothetically supposed to have a piece of rebar every six inches, well, anything over that six inch mark is gonna show up highlighted as like identified. Oh, this is over that that standard. And uh same with the depth of the rebar. If it was supposed to have two and a half inches of concrete coverage, anything less than two and a half inches of coverage is going to be highlighted. It’s very easy to give that to a customer and explain what that is. We were very available all the time to uh get on meetings to uh board meetings or to phone calls or or web meetings, whatever that may be, to talk through the data. And then on the uh interior drone inspection, you’ll get a very detailed, we call it the POI report, uh points of interest. And that’s going to have a photos that I’ve taken and labeled as to where that issue was found in in relation to the northwest, east, you know, south headings, elevation data, and even temperatures, as well as they’ll get the complete drone video and LIDAR, a LIDAR point cloud as well. So that gives them a LIDAR for those who aren’t uh familiar with that is a light imaging detection and ranging. And so that is uh in layman’s terms, think of a laser pointer, you point it at a wall and you move it to uh through a doorway that that point’s gonna hit further down and then uh that uh LiDAR will hit a hard surface comes back and it creates a 3D model of whatever whatever you’re flying in. So you get all of that yeah that’s amazing.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 23:11
So I’m curious you mentioned a couple people who you your team from CCS group might meet with you have these deliverables right so you show them how the visuals and what the facility looks like you got these reports. Who are you often meeting with what are their roles with the organization or with the facility all in all obviously main to key new projects are much more expensive right than uh oftentimes maintaining so who’s in the room and what kind of impact they have because I imagine a lot of people who are using these services that you offer maybe seeing this experience this sensing this for the first time. So who’s doing it and I want to know what are some of their reactions when you show them right this information.
Hayes Guillot 24:00
Yeah definitely so it’s uh usually the uh the site manager uh it’s the oh a lot of times it’s board meetings so the members of the board and the site manager all the decision makers are are in that room and so a common thing that I see is you have your site manager who is aware or you sometimes aware of some of the issues and have tried to explain that or been told or uh told higher ups about that but just being able to see what he was actually explaining in photos and videos really really opens the eyes and really brings to light the either the severity of the issue or the urgency if that’s what’s needed.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 24:46
To take along to that response in my question earlier, do you find that seeing the condition of the facility on video or in photos changes the conversation sometimes?
Hayes Guillot 24:56
Yeah definitely when you can what I always say is when you can put the the proof in the pudding and show them exactly what’s going on and where it’s at it it definitely shifts that conversation to okay what is the repair right we we go from the inspection to okay what is that proposed repair now and so it it definitely helps with taking the guesswork out of uh the repair needs and yeah and then kind of steering that conversation to that to that solution for for what was found.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 25:29
Great
Early Detection And Proactive Planning
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 25:30
let’s move this conversation now over to early detection and then proactive planning.
Hayes Guillot 25:36
Let’s talk about that early detection phase what types of issues are you able to identify at early stages because of these technologies right yeah so uh some things such as cracking and spalling based on the GPR data you we can kind of identify areas that are would be prone or or susceptible to cracking spalling delamination.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 26:03
Can you share with me spalling? What do you mean by that?
Hayes Guillot 26:06
So cracking and and so obviously cracking and then spalling would be those those cracks that have um spread so much that um the concrete starts falling out oh wow and you start you start seeing uh like on the outside on the exterior of the silo a lot of times spalling will occur around where the rebar is right so you’ll you’ll get a crack and then over natural uh freeze thaw moisture gets into those cracks freezes corrodes that bar as well and then starts pushing that concrete out great clarity so you mentioned you may see mic cracks wear spalling and then you said deterioration what other things you might see in there yeah yeah so then just like I touched on earlier the the structural um integrity of the silo so if even on a fairly new built silo that uh may not be showing any signs of distress or any cracking yet if if that rebar was placed improperly in areas, uh we can identify that early on before those cracks start to show their face and and say okay you may see in the future some cracking in this elevation or some some damage in this elevation. What is the difference between catching something early and catching it after it has become a major problem earlier is you know you gives you time to figure out a game plan and um it saves customers money. You know if you can catch something earlier when it’s a smaller issue versus down the road when it becomes a larger problem, then you’re saving the facility downtime to do a smaller repair versus down the road when when it’s a larger repair and that facility needs a little bit more downtime in order for that repair to be completed.
Lunch And Learns And Getting Started
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 28:03
I would imagine that people are listening to this episode and maybe it was shared within this episode of the whole green podcast by Jeeps that the people there in the facility may have not used or seen these tools before and they’re like oh boy what’s a good starting point we think we need to have some uh this done or maybe we don’t and we we don’t think but we just want to be sure I mean there’s a big spectrum here so what is a good starting point?
Hayes Guillot 28:26
Yeah a great uh tool and a great thing that I try to offer to anyone who’s uh who’s not sure what the technology can do or wants to learn more about it would be uh lunch and learns I call them lunch and learns I come in I uh I I buy lunch for all y’all we sit down I give you a presentation and we have an open discussion about what this technology is capable of. I show you some example reports some some videos I even bring the drone and the the the uh technology with me and we can go out and play play with it and I’ll show you show you what what it’s capable of so that’s definitely something that I try to do with with all of our customer or potential customers that are interested in uh learning more about what we offer.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 29:12
Lunch and learn sounds fantastic I also didn’t eat breakfast and this is right around lunchtime shouldn’t have mentioned that now I’m even hungrier. No that’s great case uh that that is actually fantastic that you do that it’s very approachable we want to be your partner here’s how we could support you these are the tools we use that’s a fantastic way to go about that uh do you see these tools becoming more of a standard part of facility maintenance and capital planning?
Hayes Guillot 29:41
Definitely yeah I uh technology in every industry is always evolving and I go to as we were kind of talking about even before we started Jem was the amount of uh trade shows that I attend and that CCS group attends and I’m constantly seeing new technology to help with efficiency and safety and to to kind of mitigate risk. And so I I see uh that technology is becoming more of an everyday thing more implemented in in our industry especially but in every industry to kind of touch on a another subject these drones I mean when we first started using drones we actually used a uh a different drone and then the manufacturer that we work with came out with a newer version of it that had more tools and actually gave you more insight like the uh the lidar the lidar wasn’t on our first uh drone and so when that came out we saw the uh use of that and just how valuable that could be in and helping our customers and identifying problems oh that’s fantastic haze as we wrap up what do you want listeners to think differently about when it comes to facility inspections yeah I I think it comes down to the earlier we can detect stuff and the earlier we can we can get in there and look at at your facility the less downtime you’ll face and also I wanted to kind of touch on the idea of coming in and doing a initial inspection and then even if no issues were found just kind of a routine every couple years every year to monitor and to just see rate of change if things are changing over time. So if
Routine Schedules And Tech Trends
Hayes Guillot 31:33
we can get on like an inspection schedules that’s also a very valuable thing that a lot of our customers are starting to get with us.
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 31:40
Hayes you’ve been an absolute wonderful guest this content is surely needed in our industry and and we need more of that. So I thank you Hayes for being the guest but also your CCS group and and also for being a partner with Jeeps a part of the partner program to make this episode possible but it is so critical and so people may have questions right or follow-up and they want to know how to contact you how to contact your organization because you do make a big splash at Exchange and those who go there are seen your your branding and and your booth and all the great conversations and the people and the force you bring there you put a lot of investment into Jeeps Exchange we thank you and your organization for that as well and that’s a great opportunity but right now this is a podcast and it can easily get shared anywhere. And so what is the best place for people to reach out now if they’re listening to you how do they reach out to you and CCS group yeah yeah they can uh give me a call they can call into the office our website has uh great information on kind of what we do and that website again is our website is CCSgrouponline.com all right I will be sure to put that in the show notes also make reference to my interview with previous episode that I did with CCS Group is with your CEO Cheyenne Wolford and that’s a great episode to listen to as well I think these two partner well together. So we thank CCS Group we thank you Hayes for being such a big voice in the grain industry and I know this is uh probably odd to you if you were in a 20s and and you’re thinking I don’t know if I’m gonna work in the grain industry. Well guess what Hayes it’s global impact you feed fuel and clothe the world and what you do in a in a unique way. And like you said in a previous conversation and early here you you didn’t know much about the grain industry but you had a curious about what you’re doing now and you’re learning growing even to be a pilot yourself you’re trained to do that. So you’re just a very curious person and you like technology and you can see how it can serve and solve problems in terms of safety and lowering cost for people and expenses to repair because you can keep these concrete silos going and obviously they play a big role in all that. So thank you for serving as guests appreciate it.
Hayes Guillot 33:51
Yeah thank you I I I loved it this was uh an awesome experience for me so I really appreciate you having me you’re welcome.
Closing Questions And Next Steps
Jim Lenz, GEAPS (Host) 34:00
Hayes thank you for sharing your expertise and giving us a behind the scenes look at how technology is transforming facility inspections throughout the grain industry. We also want to thank Custom Concrete specialists for their continued partnership with Jeeps and their commitment to helping grain facilities operate more safely efficiently and proactively and to our listeners here are a few questions to reflect on as you return to your operation what areas of your facility have not been thoroughly inspected in recent years? Where might hidden risks exist that you simply cannot see today and how could better data and visibility improve your maintenance planning safety efforts and capital investment decisions? If you’d like to continue learning about this topic I encourage you to check out a previous whole grain podcast episode I did featuring Hayes colleague Cheyenne Wolford CEO and president of Custom Concrete Specialists that episode is titled Innovations in Green Style Maintenance Drone Inspection Services we’ll also include a link in the show notes along with additional information about Custom Concrests and the technologies discussed in today’s conversation and while you are exploring resources be sure to visit Jeeps at Jeeps.com that’s G-E-A-P-S dot com. Jeeps exists to champion connect and serve the global grain industry and their members if you’re looking to strengthen your technological knowledge develop your leadership skills or stay current with industry trends Jeeps offers a wide range of professional development opportunities including online courses webinars the Jeeps video library the grain industry glossary chapter events leadership programs and of course Jeeps Exchange the biggest and best event in the grain handling and processing industry. You may also want to explore the globally recognized Jeeps credentialing program earning a Jeeps credential demonstrates to employers that you possess the knowledge experience commitment and determination to grow professionally and contribute at higher level for employers credentialing is a powerful tool for training developing and retaining employees while helping attract the next generation of green industry talent. Whether you’re pursuing a professional growth opportunity or building stronger workforce cheap credentials provides a clear pathway for continued learning and career advancement and enhancement. If you found value in today’s episode please share it with a colleague maintenance manager, engineer, facility supervisor and anyone responsible for safety and reliability of brain facilities and don’t forget to subscribe to the Whole Grain Podcast on your favorite podcast app so new episodes are automatically delivered to your device as soon as they are released. Thank you for joining the network of brain professionals from 111 countries around the world who listened to this show The Whole Grain Podcast. I’m Jim Lenz, Director of Global Education and Training at Jeeps, the Grain Elevator and Processing Society until next time stay safe stay curious continue learning and thank you for helping feed, fuel and clothe the world
