Mushroom Machine

Interview with Alan Edwards – All the difficult questions answered

This does not happen often.
Getting Alan Edwards to sit in one place for over an hour and getting to grill him on the Mushroom Machine Company and all things Gamechanger!
There are some very difficult to answer questions in here. If you have any questions about the Mushroom Machine Company and the Gamechanger range of products the answer WILL be in this video.

Watch the video in your preferred language below. 
This is the full video, we have also broken the video down into smaller sections that you can view with the corresponding questions below. 

Introduction
All 5 questions below can be viewed on this video.
1. Give me a quick summary of your experience of the Mushroom Industry
2. What’s your background? What areas have you experience in?
3. Why did it all start, what was the driving force behind developing your machines?
4. How long since you started this journey?
5. How much of that time do you think has gone into Research & Development?

Development Path
1. Is it just the Gamechanger that you have developed?
2. Why did you introduce robotics and the pick and place mechanism?
3. What were the key achievements or breakthroughs during this time?
4. You have travelled the world in the last few years, and operated Gamechangers in many places throughout the world, can I ask, what was the reasoning behind this?
5. Do you think you have you made many mistakes in this time?
6. What were the most significant challenges?

Discussing the Gamechanger Punnet / Gamechanger Pro / Gamechanger Pro + and the Gamechanger Cord Machines
1. Tell me, what are the main differences between these 3?
2. What are the main benefits of the Gamechanger Pro?
3. Every picker is different but, how long do you think it would take to be trained to use the Gamechanger?
4. What is unique about The Gamechanger & The Gamechanger Pro solution?
5. Obviously, software is extremely important. What’s special about the software that runs your machines?
6. Does the Mushroom Software store harvesting statistics that can be used to improve efficiencies?
7. Is mushroom presentation in the punnets really that important?
8. You moved from single punnet filling to using prefilled punnets in different trays. What was the reason behind this?
9. How many actual tray configurations are there?
10. How accurate is the weighing module on the Gamechanger machines?
11. There is adjustable stalk length cutting on the Gamechangers. How important is that?
12. How easy is it to clean the machine and protect it from the spread of disease?
13. Why did you move from rail to floor supported lifts for the Gamechanger?
14. Does your range of Gamechanger products actually reduce overall farm costs?
15. Is it just harvesting machines that you sell?
16. Does your company offer support to Gamechanger pickers?

The Articulated Lift
1. Can you tell me more about these lifts?
2. When did you start development of the Floor Supported Lift?
3. What is unique about the lift?
4. How crucial is the Articulated Floor Supported Lift?
5. It’s taken some time to develop, why was that?
6. How important has the lift been to the operation of the Gamechanger Pro?

Gamechanger Pro Plus
1. What was the reason behind the Gamechanger Pro Plus?

The Gamechanger Cord
1. When did you decide to develop the Cord machines?
2. What market are you intending this product for?
3. What are the benefits of the Cord machines?

New Systems
1. What are the major problems with implementing new systems?
2. What about these new systems, in particular, Robotic Picking systems. What are your thoughts on these?
3. What’s the solution?

What is in the Future?
1. Are there any new developments from the Mushroom Machine Company that we can hope to see in the future?
2. What is your aim in the next 12-16 months
3. Do you have the ability to produce the possible number of machines that may be required. Have you got the production facilities?

Round Up
4. The Gamechanger has been around for a while, why are more farms not using it?
5. We have covered a lot of ground, what do you think, is the most important part?