Case Study: NECO (Nebraska Engineering Company) cuts labor by 30% and enables remote grain-dryer control with Digi International's ConnectPort X4 and Digi Remote Manager

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Nebraska Engineering Company (NECO), a division of Global Industries, manufactures high‑value grain dryers and handling equipment for farmers worldwide. Because grain dryers run intermittently but are critical to operations and storage value, customers needed real‑time status and control without dedicating staff to watch equipment 24/7—downtime or missed market windows could be costly.

NECO equipped dryers with ConnectPort X4 gateways that feed live PLC data to Digi Remote Manager on AWS and NECO’s COMMANDnet web app, giving farmers, dealers and NECO remote alerts, live monitoring and control from any device. The system enables remote adjustments and troubleshooting, has reduced monitoring labor by as much as 30%, cut service travel, opened potential new revenue streams for dealers, and now connects hundreds of dryers in the field.

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Lee Goldhorn

Manager Of Dealer Development And Technical Support