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DAIRY FARMING

GEA DRIVES THE AUTOMATION AND DIGITAL

TRANSFORMATION ON DAIRY FARMS

to the single box. Today, the latest further GEA is also expanding its global dealer
development leaves the plant operator network into Solution Centers. These well-
free to choose: With free animal traffic or trained teams provide farmers around the
fixed milking times, the DairyRobot R9500 world with advice, support and digital ex-
proves its worth as a single box on small pertise to help them achieve herd health,
and family farms or as a multibox system operational efficiency and milk yield. In
for farms with larger herds. In the field of parallel, GEA is installing an internal man-
conventional milking, the flagship milking agement system along the service chain.
carousel from the GEA DairyRotor product It covers all DairyService activities from
GEA drives digital transformation on line, the GEA T8900 (US version T8800), the farmer to the dealer and headquar-
dairy farms (Photo: GEA) continues to provide farmers worldwide ters. This tool offers an efficient planning
Milk producers benefit from a global with the most robust, efficient and produc- instrument for the field service technician,
service support network and digital plat- tive rotary milking experience available while at the same time optimizing spare
form for herd and farm management. today. parts planning and stocking.
GEA, one of the world’s leading milk- Comprehensive and uniform Circle 32 on enquiry card
ing and feeding specialist is driving dig-
ital change. The technology group sees herd and farm management NEW CONTROL
the future of the dairy farming as a digital With digital change, farmers recognize
ecosystem of automatic and convention- the value of data to improve farm efficien- UNIT UNIFLEX
al milking systems supporting the trends cy and animal welfare. For a cutting edge,
towards consolidation of dairy farms with future-oriented herd and farm manage-
larger herds as well as the transformation ment, GEA brings together process data, 2021 starts with the launch of a new
to automation of production. A complete- milk performance indicators and monitor- control unit, UNIFLEX, that improves
ly new digital platform brings together ing of animal behavior. Instead of several Growket´s our transport system. A proj-
herd and farm management under one us- cumbersome software programs, the dig- ect in which our technicians have been
er-friendly, intuitive user interface. Inno- ital platform offers uniform access via an working during last year and which be-
vative services and a worldwide network intuitive, user-friendly interface. Login can gins to be commercialized this month.
of Solution Centers promote herd health be done either at home or via convenient- New control unit UNIFLEX, available in
and operational efficiency. With the idea ly mobile app. A view of the entire system diameters 75 and 90mm, with a high sen-
of the digital farm, GEA is installing a dig- enables both the farmer and the service sitivity safety sensor to stop and
ital support system whose software solu- technician to detect opportunities and start the geared motor, avoiding
tions and services proactively help today’s optimize production parameters. Analy- breakdowns. We offer two options of
farmer on the road to a profitable and sus- sis tools are particularly valuable for daily sensors, membrane and mecanic. Large
tainable milk production. monitoring and decision-making: Alarms, transparent register, for easy essem-
Automation trends in the feedback functions and reports make it bling and visibility, allowing to watch
the operation. This register have a safety
easier for the farmer to manage animal
milking sector health at an early stage and to improve lock to prevent accidental opening.
feeding strategies while using resources Control unit is
sustainably. d e s i g n e d

Extended service offerings by union of
pieces with
ensure maximum tabs, without
availability with great screws, to facilitate
transparency assembly. An inner
edge to prevent water
Operators of automatic as well as con- ingress and moisture;
GEA’s DairyRobot R9500 with inliner-ev- ventional milking systems must be able to and funnel with two slopes
erything technology (Photo: GEA) rely on the reliability of their equipment that facilitates the feed
The trend towards fewer farms with and the well-being of their animals in view flow and prevents the slope
more cows and higher production per cow of the growing herd sizes. The innovative To improve the adaptation of the new
continues worldwide. At the same time, services in the portfolio Dairy Service Uniflex control unit to feed line, two com-
farmers are focusing on automation and in therefore aim at a proactive plant monitor- plements have been developed, a trans-
some cases investments in automatic milk- ing and at the same time put the care of the parent flexible tube and a connection to
ing robots can be as high as 90 percent udder health into the focus of the hygiene flexible tube by thread.
in some countries. GEA has been setting products. Farmers can choose between From Growket, we continue with the
new standards in automatic milking since different service levels, which makes the improvement Project for the feed sys-
the introduction of the fully automated service costs predictable and transparent. tem. In 2019 we present a new drive unit
milking rotary DairyProQ. With the first At the same time, they benefit from exclu- for chain transport system. In 2020 feed
Monobox, the unique In-Liner Everything sive repair services and increased ma- silo was optimazed under EUROCODE
milking process has also been transferred chine uptime. 1.4 and we enter 2021 with UNIFLEX.

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