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About AgVenture Tech Inc.
Mission
Our mission is to deliver Innovation-as-a-Service and empower lean organizations to transform their ideas into tangible technologies.
Principal Consultant
Carl D Hays III
- Carl is a technology strategist, data scientist, and product innovator specializing in transforming complex operational environments into high-performance, data-driven systems. As Principal Consultant of Agventure Tech Inc., he leads organizations through innovation strategy, AI adoption, automation design, and advanced analytics—helping clients unlock measurable gains in productivity, reliability, and financial performance
- With more than 20 years of experience across agriculture, industrial equipment, manufacturing, water technology, and logistics, Carl brings a rare multidisciplinary approach that integrates cutting edge IoT, machine learning, sensor fusion, financial modeling into practical, immediately deployable solutions
- Carl is the creator of the Operating Equipment Effectiveness (OPEE) framework, a groundbreaking extension of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) that adapts plant-level KPIs to mobile and remote equipment using IoT and real-time data. His published research extends OPEE with a reliability indicator (M-OEE), providing organizations with a unified view of productivity, availability and overall machine health. His work has influenced IoT implementations at fortune 500 companies.
- Provides Innovation-as-a-Service (IaaS) for rapid ideation, prototyping, and commercialization of new technologies
- Designed and developed AI/ML algorithms automating predictive analysis
- Designed and implemented IoT system architecture for OEM, fleets, and industrial assets in Agriculture, Forestry, Construction and Oil and Gas.
- Developed automated yield analysis and advanced agritech solutions including an autonomous utility vehicle
- Transferred dissertation statistics to financial modeling using proprietary ML algorithms for identifying key inputs and conducting scenario analysis using monte carlo simulations
- Carl is currently completing his Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at George Fox University, where his dissertation focuses on technology adoption in agriculture using Structural Equation Modeling and advanced behavioral adoption frameworks
- Carl has also authored multiple peer-reviewed papers on IoT, OEE/OPEE, reliability engineering, and machine productivity and has invented patent-pending technology
- Carl is a husband, father, avid CrossFitter and brings a disciplined, high-integrity, execution-focused approach—bridging research, engineering, and business strategy to help organizations innovate faster, operate smarter, and grow stronger.