1. Dealers Meeting, Dead Sea, Israel, 2008
How do we milk our cows?
Milking Efficiency
in AfiFarm Ver. 3.05
Dealers Meeting, Dead Sea, Israel, 2008

2. How do we milk our cows? Is it important? Who cares?
What does milking affect?
Herd Health
Time of Milking (Parlor Throughputs)
Milk Production

3. How do we milk our cows? Automated Milking is Great
Dairies implement Milking Procedures to improve herd health
Ideal vs Normal milking curve
Low Flow Time

4. How do we milk our cows?
Dairies implement Milking Procedures to improve herd health
Cleaning
Disinfection
Preventing cross contamination
Minimizing claw on time
Addressing milking and machine problems

5. How do we milk our cows?
Does it work? What are our milkers doing?

6. How do we milk our cows?
How do we know?

7. What is Afi Milking Efficiency?
A tool for monitoring the milking process
For keeping track on milkers and milking procedures
For improving the operation of the milking
For monitoring damaging irregularities in milking
For improving the milk letdown
For keeping cows healthy
For increasing parlor throughputs
For early alerts for equipment malfunctions

8. AFI Efficiency Reports
Milk Curve Deviation – Graph

9. AFI Milking Efficiency Main Screen
Red Indicator
indicates for deviations from the normal
Green Indicator
performances are within the desired targets
blue triangles
A report may be opened

10. AFI Efficiency Reports
Milking Irregularities – A summary of all the irregular actions in milking.

11. AFI Efficiency Reports
Detailed Report – Monitoring milking procedure.

12. Equipment Malfunction Analysis
Equipment Malfunctions – This group alerts for equipment malfunction.

13. Equipment Malfunction Analysis
Stall Equipment – Analyzes changes in animal behavior and milk letdown in specific stalls.
Suspected Pulsator Problem

14. Equipment Malfunction Analysis
Recommendations – Analyzes the statistics in the report and generates recommendations.

15. What Else in Version 3.05 ? Code Control
Code Priority – Importance of codes
Alarm Level – Start button and alerts in milking
Output Control – Automatic activation of some of the outputs of the milk meter for specific cows
Un-Identified cows – Alarm level
Additional Info – secondary numeric info figure
Health Code–2
Additional Information – 8

16. What Else in Version 3.05 ? New Sensors Supports AfiLab
Supports Pedometer+

17. AfiMilk for Improved Milking