We’re talking tech with Vanderloop Equipment CEO Robb Vanderloop today. The Wisconsin AGCO dealership has been ahead of the curve when it comes to expanding its precision portfolio. And now, Vanderloop believes AI is a potential game-changer, not just for farmers, but for dealers, as it has the potential to make the technician’s job much easier.

“Our technicians today have to be really good to be able to do diagnostics on some of these systems. In service training, they can bug a machine, and they have the technicians figure out where they bug the machine. That’s good, but it’s not the real world. In the real world, when you have a bug, it might happen once every hour, or once every 2 days. Figuring out how to diagnose it can be very challenging. With AI, a lot of this stuff will be self-learning. It’ll be able to see when it has a problem, detect it and report back if it’s a hydraulic failure or mechanical failure, and know enough to stop it.”

Catch more of our sit-down interview with Robb Vanderloop on the Farm-Equipment YouTube page.