Today’s professional milk production management means: controlling and analysing the performance of each cow and the herd as well as the optimisation of the work carried out in the milk production plant. It is for these reasons that WestfaliaSurge has made available an efficient instrument called DairyManagementSystem 21 (DMS 21). DMS 21 is now the unique combination of herd and milking management systems that enables optimum performance data generation and milk production monitoring to be carried out. This is more than just an exchange of data between the milking parlour and the herd management PC. It also covers the evaluation of the performance data (milk yield, health of the herd, feeding, fertilization etc.) that will enable both decisions to be made and the solutions to be implemented quickly. In addition to this it considerably simplifies efficient monitoring, diagnostics and the loading of updates. 

It is modern networking technology that makes all of this possible. Metatron 21 and DairyPlan 21 as well as all the peripherals equipment are integrated in the combined system. The entire data recording, the control of all the working steps in the milking parlour including the monitoring of the system functions is carried out automatically using a PC. This will considerably help with regard to increasing efficiency and reducing the workload. Included here is a reliable cow identification system and a precise individual animal milking management system that ranges from stimulation to controlling the milking and continues with the control of the end-of-milking and automatic selection. 

Many herd management systems only provide manual data recording and restricted access to milk-relevant data whereas DairyManagementSystem 21 not only records milk data automatically but system data as well: how long does the milking take at each stall? Will repeated features and weak points be identified? Which sector can I optimise? DMS 21 enables long-term operational developments to be implemented as well as the running of in-house benchmarking (insemination success rates, lactation and annual performance, cows milked per hour, etc.).