In 1994, as President of an industrial distributor, I saw a need for manufacturing companies to control their indirect materials. In most cases, they had poor systems to track who was taking what. I also knew that a lot of time was spent looking for items that a worker needed to do his job. I set out to find a way to help companies control and deliver the tools and supplies that workers needed, where they were needed. I literally built the first industrial vending machines in my garage. Since then, AutoCrib, Inc. has provided over 5,000 automated inventory control systems for manufacturing companies worldwide.