Agriculture Solutions:

Agriculture covers a wide range of companies, from farmers and processors, to seed and fertilizer producers, to manufacturers of machinery and testing devices. Although different, all these companies are concerned with some of the same things, namely quality and efficiency. Better efficiency can only really be attained by understanding the process and being able to correct problems rapidly and properly. DAQFactory gives you the tools to do both. Its data acquisition and logging capabilities allow you to collect all the data you need to properly understand the details of your process and correct problems. Combined with real-time display of this data and the ability to perform automated scripts, you can correct problems before they become serious.

A prime example of this is a refrigeration storage company that provides storage of agricultural perishables for many of the farmers in California. This company uses DAQFactory to monitor the entire facility and alerts the staff whenever a refrigeration unit starts to go over temperature. The auto dialer system within DAQFactory calls a predefined list of people and announces on their phone the condition and allows them to acknowledge the alarm remotely. They then have to arrive on site and acknowledge locally within a preset time or the next person is called. This ensures that someone gets onsite and corrects the problem. In addition to maintaining the quality of their customers product stored in their facility, this system increases the efficiency of the company by allowing staff to be on-call instead of on-site all the time.

This same company uses DAQFactory to provide tracability in their quality control. Their customers need to know that their product was kept at the appropriate temperature at all times to meet regulatory food safety requirements. DAQFactory logs the temperatures in each refrigeration unit at all times. Any customer can request this data and prove that their product was kept properly.

Manufacturers of agriculture tools have similar needs. For example, a company that manufacturers sugar content meters for the wine / grape industry use DAQFactory for determining the deposited metal thickness on a substrate in their sensor. DAQFactory provides real time display, calibration capability, automation, and of course data logging for quality control. Whatever the need, if you want to use a computer to collect from or control a real world object, DAQFactory can help.

Here are a few of the companies in the field of agriculture that use DAQFactory:

• Elektro Hirt Apparatebau
• Kubota Tractor Corp
• Montana Microbial Products
• Prospective Innovations
• Syngenta Crop Protection
• True Organic Inc.
• US Department of Agriculture