Milk-Control


• Modulare Structure
• Detaching
• Milk Measuring
• Conductivity Measuring
• Identification
• Operation of Entrance and Exit Gates
• Operation of Crowd Gate

The most flexible system in the market for management in milking parlours.
With Strangko Milk-Control it is now possible to start at the automation level which suits you and your herd right now and then build on step by step depending on change of your need without the original investment being superfluous.

The Strangko milk-Control keyboard is easy to understand and use. With one keyboard it is possible to handle 2 milking places. This gives better space for the milker’s work. If you use 1 keyboard per milking place, it is possible to see both the cow number and the milk yield constantly throughout the milking.

Strangko Milk-Control can be installed in various ways. The below versions can be mounted both as ”stand alone” as well as identification.

Milk-Control Versions:
• Pulsator control and detacher control
• Pulsator control, detacher control and conductivity measuring
• Pulsator control, detacher control and milk measuring
• Pulsator control, detacher control, milk measuring and conductivity measuring.

At the top of the keyboard various displays inform about:
• Cow number
• Milk yield
• Milk alarms
- deviation in yield
- conductivity
- separation of milk
• Cow calendar alarms:
- first in heat
- 2nd time in heat
- pregnancy check
- dry off
- the cow has been dried off
- 2 illness codes, e.g. mastitis ans penicillin
- activity.
 



The Milk-Control keyboard is equipped with a large LCD display where all information about the individual cow can be seen right on the milking place.

The user can programme the information which is to be shown and in which order. This information can be divided into 4 groups:


Milking
• Expected milk yield for the cow in question
• The actual milk yield
• Measured conductivity during milking
• Alarm for conductivity
• Number of milkings for milk to be separated
• Milking time
• Average milking speed for this milking
   

Feeding
• Allocated food and rest food type A
• Allocated food and rest food type B
• Allocated food and rest food type C
• Allocated food and rest food type D
• Allocated food type A in parlour
• Allocated food type B in parlour

Cow calendar
• Days in lactation
• Latest calving date
• Latest in heat date
• Latest insemination date
• Expected calving date
• Expected dry off date
• Deviation in activity shown in %
• Illness code No. 1
• Illness code No. 2
• Alarm 1st in heat
• Alarm 2nd in heat
• Alarm 1st control after insemination
• Alarm: dry off
• Alarm: has been dried off
• Possibility to separate cow after milking

Settings
Can be seen when connected to PC
• Time in the beginning of milking where detaching cannot take place automatically (neutral time)
• Max. number of seconds between 2 milk pulses (detaching time)
• Pulsator speed per minute
• Pulsation ratio on front teats
• Pulsation ratio on rear teats
• Pulsator speed per minute during stimulation
• Pulsation ratio on front teats during stimulation
• Pulsation ratio on rear teats during stimulation
• Duration of stimulation in seconds

The user decides the order of the above information. The display always shows 4 lines and by pushing the arrow keys you can go up and down through the details until you find the wanted information.

If the Milk-Control is equipped with identification and PC, it is possible to have individual settings per cow so that each single cow can be milked in the best possible way. At present Milk-Control is the only system in the market with this capability.

If the Milk-Control is installed without milk measuring, the detaching signal comes from an indicator housing with electronic measuring of the milk flow.