What is GRIT?
Workshop automation, safety, and accountability. All in one platform.
GRIT Automation brings IoT technology to workshops and makerspaces. Our sensors, controllers, and software work together to manage access, monitor environments, track assets, and automate the systems that keep your shop running safely and efficiently.
The GRIT Automation Solutions
Customizable solutions to make your shop smarter, safer, and more efficient
Dust Management
For when you're tired of opening and closing your gate, turning your dust collector on and off, and doing all the other things that keep you from creating.
Access Control
GRIT's Access Control system makes sure that only approved users can operate a tool creating a significantly safer shop.
Asset Management
Never again wonder who took a drill, broke a bit, or if you're about to run out of sandpaper. Track assets via our barcode scanner.
Door & Time Tracking
Secure access to facilities and classrooms, plus track hours for payroll via our Access Control technology.
Environment Monitoring
Air Quality and Pressure Sensor devices monitor your environment to make sure everything is as you need it to be.
Start Here: Document Your Shop
When you’re ready to begin, download this form. Once you have it completed, please email it to sales@gritautomation.com. We’ll be in touch to help you take control of your shop so you don’t have to think about your dust control ever again.
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TESTIMONIALS
GRIT is the best system on the market for dust control. iVac is old and obsolete. GRIT Automation is truly a system of the 21st century.
Denny Coleman, Owner, Champaign Woodworkers Club
GRIT Automation tech support was off-the-charts good. They simply are the best technical support personnel I’ve ever worked with.
Alan Lightstone, Owner, Home Shop
I chose GRIT so that I could keep students in my shop safe and expand their opportunities for learning more of our tools. The GRIT system allows me to focus on those that need the most help instead of worrying about everyone at the same time when the shop is busy.
Lowell Miller, Fabrication Coordinator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture
We chose to incorporate GRIT Automation in our shop because it provides us with better control over the use of our equipment, data about that equipment usage, and peace of mind knowing that only trained and authorized users are able to turn on a tool.
Neil Pearse, Lab and Equipment Operations Manager, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Siebel Center for Design