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Product management – Crop protection technology

Inspection of brand new sprayer by a sprayer

manufacture and problems encountered

Timo Kovermann – product management


Agenda

• Introduction of company AMAZONE

• Declaration and inspection of sprayers

– Previous situation in Germany

– Current situation of European legislation

– Open Demands of customer

• Usability and service of modern machinery


History of the company AMAZONE

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Heinrich Dreyer founded AMAZONE in 1883 as a local

workshop.

In 1906 already he delivered the first grain cleaning machines

from Germany to Chile. This first in series produced machine

was called „AMAZONE“ and also the later name of the

company.

Management in 4th generation

Left Dr. Justus Dreyer

Right Christian Dreyer

Today AMAZONE is still a family owned-company

in the 4th generation with

• 1800 employees worldwide

• 7 production facilities

• More than 70 importers worldwide


AMAZONE product range in plant protection technology


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1989

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2014


Since 1988 every new designed or imported machine in Germany had to fulfill technical standards

Every addition or change had to be updated in the declaration

Not just for constructive changes, also for changes of supplier

Previous declaration procedure in Germany

• Mandatory BBA declaration procedure (later JKI) for new plant

protection machinery in Germany from 1.07.1988

• Required contents of manufacture for declaration procedure:

– Operation manual

– Description documents of components in technical details

• Basic machine

• Tank

• Armature

• Spray boom

• Pump

• Regulating device

– Combination matrix of every possible machine configuration


Declaration had to be signed legally binding by member of company management

and was consequently obligatory


History of inspection of sprayers in Germany

• Demands of customer:

– “Ready-to-use” machine directly from manufacture

– No additional efforts for the new machine before

first use

• From beginning AMAZONE with a certified control

– Official document from authority

– Control station in production plant

– Trained and certified employees

– Regular controls by officials


Initiation of machinery inspection for used sprayers in Germany from 1.07.1993


Actual situation in certification of new machinery

• Amendment 2009/127/EC to Machine Directive 2006/42/EC

– No approval procedure by national inspection authority needed anymore

– Self-certified machines through CE marking by producer themselves

Examples for plant protection machinery at AMAZONE Product Certification

• EN ISO 16119-1 and 16119-2 for environmental requirements of sprayers

• EN ISO 4254-1 and 4254-6 for agricultural machinery safety of sprayers



Standard quality controls in production

• AMAZONE quality standard

– Quality controls

• Incoming parts

• Internal manufactured

components

– Continues control during assembling

– Regularly machinery-audits

• Final inspection of every machine

– Test run with water

• Detailed control of

– Functionality and reached parameters of all

components

– Right calibration of complete system

– Optical details and appearance

» Test certificate signed by employee and

filed into the system



Optional national tests for new machines at factory


Gerätekontrolle Anhängespritze (D)

Proficiency test trailed field sprayer (D)

Gerätekontrolle Anhängespritze (NL)

Proficiency test trailed field sprayer (NL)

Gerätekontrolle Anhängespritze (GB)

Proficiency test trailed field sprayer (GB)

Examples of optional proficiency tests from factory as service for customer:

Customer gets an inspected and certified machine regarding national requirements

Manufacture is confronted with different certifications under similarly test procedures




Usability of modern plant protection machinery


Technology gets more complex and has to stay accessible to customer and service partner

Features for a high standard in efficiency and sustainability of modern machinery have to be easy to use for

the customer

• Clear allocations of functions at control devices

• Intuitive and structured user interfaces in machine terminals

• Use of modern media for trainings and instructions

Usability in focus of development of new machinery


Service for customer and distribution partner after delivery

– At the initial delivery the machine is explained to the

customer in detail

• More complex machines with special trainings at

“AMAZONE Training-Center”

– Operator trainings for customer

– Service trainings for distribution partners

» Service partners have to be prepared

for sprayer inspection

– Nationwide provision of support for the customers with

“emergency services“ during the season


Example:

AMAZONE E-Learning

Interactive operator training with commented description of each

working step

www.amazone.com Service E-Learning

Responsibility of manufacture after delivery


Current situation in inspection and handling of new

machinery

• Periodical inspection regarding 2009/128/EC - sustainable use of pesticides – in European countries necessary

– Relevance for manufacture: Customer requires with delivery of new sprayer a certification for a control

regarding 2009/128/EC respectively EN ISO 16122 (current EN 13790)

– Current situation: National inspections under different requirements and intervals, also for new machinery

• Feedback from the last months:

– Today no consistent implementation of changes in European directives into national laws

– Unsettled customers and distribution partners about process with new machinery

– International orientation in many cases to BBA (JKI) declaration procedure in past

• Not longer existing

• Common question:

What has a customer / national distribution partner to do,

to get a “ready-to-use” machine directly from manufacture?


?


Conclusion

• Example Germany:

– Responsibility of manufacture did not changed for the declaration of new plant protection technology

• Manufacture in responsibility with legally binding signed certification

– Past: BBA (later JKI) declaration

– Present: CE marking with confirmation of EN ISO 16119

– Benefit: CE marking significant for complete European Union

• Example AMAZONE:

– No significant changes in internal processes because of self-certification

• No declaration of each specific configuration of a machine needed anymore

• No specific documentation for an approval by national inspection authorities

– No declaration for manufacture by a third party

• Internal standards and technical requirements are in many cases higher than current terms of norms


Demands of customer: Fulfilled certification regarding EN ISO 16119 AND a first inspected machine regarding

EN ISO 16122 directly from manufacture

Demands of manufacture: No separate control-certification for each EU member state one consistent

certification

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