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The user-friendly management and control system for modern broiler finishing and breeder management
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amacs – professional management system for thekeeping of broilers and broiler breeders
amacs is a modern management system for broiler finishing and breeder manage-ment. Modern network technology allows the farm manger to monitor and control all processes in the house no matter from which location – also via internet, smart-phone or tablet PC.
amacs is:✔ suited for small and large houses;✔ designed as a modular system and to be adapted ideally to the conditions on site;✔ expandable at any time.
The house-customised visualisation of all data in the form of graphs and the trans-mission of live pictures directly from the house are further advantages. The per-formance range of amacs also includes alarm messages via e-mail, mobile phone, smartphone or tablet PC.
Network technology and modern communication technologiesamacs controls and monitors all houses on the farm. Depending on the different requirements, several functional areas – climate, feeding, water, light, bird weighing – can be monitored and
controlled. Via remote access by means of the internet, it is also possible to access farms that are situated in different places from one central location. Or do you need our help? No problem: Our
amacs specialists can log-on to your FarmController via remote access and are thus able to provide fast help in case of trouble.
Use of FarmTerminals for multiple useThe FarmTerminal (max. 20 PCs or laptops) provides access to amacs from different locations on the same farm.
Based on the licence installed, up to 50 users with individual profiles can be created. This also allows tracking of all
actions carried out on the farm system. The standard version includes two user profiles.
Farm network (Ethernet)
Base unit
FarmController
House bus
amacs – consists of expandable hard- and softwareThe hardware includes one base unit and different modules per house which communicate with each other by means of a house bus. The control cabinets are customised.The base unit includes connections for the house bus and farm network and is available without display or with a 10" touch display. The individual base units
are in constant contact with the Farm-Controller. From there, data can be retrieved via password-protected and encrypted internet access from the farm office PC, the smartphone or tablet PC.
Climate control via iPad
✔ monitoring and control of the houses in real time;
✔ central data management with evaluations per bird; comparison with reference values stored in the system;
✔ continuous visualisation of the events from all houses on your FarmController;
✔ high flexibility thanks to different data interfaces for farm-based administrative evaluations;
✔ password-protected remote access to data and settings via internet;
✔ sophisticated, Linux-based system with self-sustaining control inside the house;
✔ newest network technology;✔ alarm system via e-mail;✔ integrated log and message system;✔ use of a network camera for image
transmission directly from the house (option);
✔ one-click language change and help function;✔ individual access rights per user.
The advantages at a glance:
Start screen: overview of all connected houses
accessories, special counters, e.g. for electricity
adjustment and control of the entire house climate
adjustment and control of feeding, feed weighing
adjustment and control of water and light program
current system state
real-time picture from the house via network camerafreely adjustable timers
diagrammatic visualisation of dataproduction and poultry management, calculation of production data and poultry weighing
display and list of current alarms
The start screen of the FarmController shows an overview of the houses that are to be controlled. The individual areas such as climate or feeding can be accessed directly via the status symbols or via the shown function keys.Thanks to the simple menu navigation, amacs is also well-suited for inexperien ced users.
Functional area Climate with customised house illustration
amacs determines the ventilation require-ments in your house. All ventilation systems – from natural to cross and tunnel venti-lation – including cooling and heating can be controlled.
Furthermore, sensors for noxious gases, for example for CO2 or NH3, can be connected. These sensors allow the control of minimum ventilation as required. This ensures optimum climate conditions in the house.If the Earny heat exchanger is installed, amacs calculates its efficiency. You are thus provided with a quick overview of cost savings for heating.
Temperature-controlled emergency opening MC 378 T
FoggingCooler
Pad Cooling
DOL 114 – humidity/temperature sensor
Negative pressure sensor
DOL 16 – light sensor
Exhaust air chimneys CL 600 and CL 920
Wall inlet CL 1200/CL 1900
Flange inlet CL 1200
Ceiling inlet CL 1500
Wall inlet CL Flex
JetMaster
Earny heat exchangerHeatMaster
Wall fan
Thermorizer
CL 75 servo motor
AirMaster with cone
DOL 17 – CO2 sensor
AirMaster
Fresh air chimneys FAC/Fumus
Fresh air
Heating SensorsAlarm
Cooling Exhaust air
amacs controls your entire house climate
Longitudinal ventilation when using a heat exchanger
Sitting in your living room using your iPad, you are looking at the current climate situation in the poultry house and would like to increase the temperature by 1°C. No problem. Simply enter the new value and the ventilation in the poultry house is reduced immediately.
Functional area Production – feeding
Broilersamacs allows you to analyse the feed consumption per bird and per day. The feed intake can be controlled automati-cally or manually by means of the freely programmable feeding manager. The feed consumption can be determined by means of a continuous weigher, pulse scale or silo weighing and the resulting feed/water ratio can be measured and displayed continually. If a continuous weigher or a weighed day silo are used, eight different feed curves from 26 feed types can be set for the whole production cycle. Energy content as well as the ingredients of the selected feed mixture can be displayed.The feed lines are controlled by sensors. An alarm is issued in case of malfunctions.
The functional area Production comprises the entire feeding management including silo weighing and feed logging. Also part of the functional area Production are light
control, water consumption and water alarms as well as livestock management.
Broiler breedersIf feed valves are used, amacs allows for target-oriented feed proportioning. It is possible to control up to 48 targets per house with up to four cross augers. Each target (feed reservoir, hopper, etc.) can be assigned to a bird group. It is therefore possible to register the feed consumption of up to twelve bird groups per house and thus determine the feed portions based on the birds‘ age.amacs is also able to control a low-maintenance batch scale. Since the feed lines can be filled while they are suspended, there is no need for a large hopper. The feed lines can be lowered separately for males and females.
Broiler breeder house with ReproMatic and separate male feeding
Broiler house with four AugerMatic lines
Feed curve
Feed consumption broilers Feed consumption broiler breeders
Poultry scale Swing 20
Separate male feeding
Day hopper with mixing function
Continuous weigher FW 99-B
Delivery control for silo scale Pulse scale Batch scale
Silo scalePause function
amacs controls your entire feeding management
Analysis and graphical illustration of all house and production dataComprehensive data collection for opti-mum production results! amacs collects many different types of data that can easily and quickly be analysed at the PC, no matter whether it concerns feed conversion, mortality, bird weighing, operating hours, amacs-controlled drive units or the entire climate control. All data can be analysed in tabular or graphical form. It can also be displayed and freely combined on the screen in forms of curves via mouseclick (drag & drop).
Log Graphical display climate
Alarm and message log – on the safe side thanks to amacs
Power failures, deviations in regard to temperature, water and feed consumption as well as minimum feed levels in the silo are important reasons for an alarm. With amacs you are always on the safe side as all alarms can also be transferred to the mobile phone by means of e-mail services. The amacs alarm option does, however, not replace the self-sustaining alarm system that is required in any case!
Thanks to a chronological message history, failures can be recognised and tracked more easily. Event filters allow for the selection of certain alarms, for example in case of production problems or climate alarms. The message log doubles as a farm operation log.
Message history
Optimum water supply is very important for high growth rates. Water consumption is recorded by means of electronic water meters in each house and measured in litres total or in ml/day/bird. The water consumption can be controlled by means of a time clock or the water meter and can be turned off in case of an alarm.
The correct lighting program has a decisive influence on the birds‘ behaviour and feed conversion. Any desired lighting program can be realised with the help of freely programmable timers, a dimmer function and a sunrise/sunset simulation. An active (actual) light control can be established by means of a light sensor.
Functional area Production – water supply and light control
The clearly structured production planner is a great tool for setting the switch times for the feeding, water and light time clocks depending on the birds‘ age in a graph. Well-proven settings can be saved thanks to a memory function and used for other houses. This enables you to plan and tabularly or graphically display the whole batch at once.
Insufficient water supply is immediately communicated. A red symbol indicates the location where the water level is not met.
Network camera for direct image transmission from the house
Farm-based analysis with BD Copy
A network camera suitable for in-house use allows the transmission of live pictures directly from the house to the FarmController via Ethernet or directly to
the office PC. You can therefore keep track of the processes in the house, also visually.
BD Copy is a program for database conversion developed by Big Dutchman which allows an easy import of your amacs data into all standard Microsoft Office applications such as Excel or Access and the creation of your own analyses or diagrams. Furthermore it is
possible to activate an automatic download of farm data at a pre-set time.Big Dutchman will be happy to assist you in creating house- or farm-based analyses based on your requirements (optional).
Picture transmission via web cam
FarmPower Manager – a unique tool for energy consumption monitoring
FarmPower Manager is a new software for monitoring of the entire energy consumption on the farm. This includes a price rate-based analysis of costs as well as forecasts for the future consumption of energy.Recording and displaying energy con-sumption details on the farm is the most important prerequisite for saving energy in the long run. To be able to analyse possible savings potentials and to avoid
expensive power peaks, you have to know how much energy individual processes such as feeding consume. The software does not only register the individual consumption but connects it to other data, such as breed, quantity and age of the birds. This also allows for a comparison of consumption data per bird or per house. It is also possible to register and include the calculated weather data from internet services, data of climate
sensors or energy generated by wind, solar or biogas plants by means of additionally installed energy meters.A generator can produce additional energy once certain previously set consumption limit values have been reached. A profitability analysis on the basis of consumption helps the farm manager to plan future investments.
FarmController
Historical dataAnimal data
Consumption house 3Sensors
Time
Power generatedPrice rate informationTotal consumption
Weather data
Consumption of functional areas
- Monitoring and limit values- Analysis- Forecasts- Costs and rates
FarmPower-Manager
Base units
Farm network (Ethernet)
Feeding ClimateMilling
Counters
Main counter
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USA: Big Dutchman, Inc.Tel. +1 616 392 5981 · [email protected]
Brazil: Big Dutchman (Brasil) Ltda.Tel. +55 16 2108 5310 · [email protected] www.bigdutchman.com.br
Russia: OOO “Big Dutchman”Tel. +7 495 2295 171 · [email protected] · www.bigdutchman.ru
Asia/Pacific: BD Agriculture (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.Tel. +60 3 33 61 5555 · [email protected] · www.bigdutchman.com
China: Big Dutchman (Tianjin) Livestock Equipment Co., Ltd.Tel. +86 10 6476 1888 · [email protected]
Germany: Big Dutchman International GmbHPostfach 1163 · 49360 VechtaTel. +49(0)4447 801-0 · Fax [email protected]
Overview of the most important amacs connection and control functions
Climate control per house• negative pressure ventilation as side, cross, tunnel,
ceiling, CombiTunnel ventilation ..................................................yes• balanced pressure ventilation ......................................................yes• natural ventilation ...........................................................................yes• control based on windchill in tunnel mode ................................yes• optimisation of operating hours of fans ......................................yes• negative pressure sensor ................................................................. 1• humidity sensor ................................................................................... 2• outside temperature sensor (per house or in the network) ......... 1• inside temperature sensor .............................................................. 12• CO2 sensor for control of minimum ventilation .............................. 1• sensor for NH3 ..................................................................................... 2• sensor for air speed ........................................................................... 1• sensor for wind direction and speed............................................... 1• fan groups .......................................................................................... 16• fan groups stepless ............................................................................ 3• butterfly valves .................................................................................... 3• ridge flaps ............................................................................................ 6• fresh air inlets• fresh air fan for FAC and FUMUS, controlled• servo motor for FAC and FUMUS• tunnel air inlets• heating groups (stand-alone heater, hot water or underfloor heating) ................................................................................................... 6• stir fans ................................................................................................. 6• heat exchanger Earny ........................................................................ 2• spray cooling with FoggingCooler ................................................... 2• pad cooling with RainMaker ............................................................. 1• thermostat function for special functions
(analogue or on/off) .......................................................................... 10• display of emergency opening .....................................................yes
Feeding broilers• groups feed registration .................................................................... 2• feed lines/circuits ............................................................................. 12• feed curves during the production cycle........................................ 8• continuous weigher FW 99-B or FW 99-40 ..................................... 1 (two houses share one scale)• weighed day silo ................................................................................. 1• pulse scale ........................................................................................... 1• silo scale with delivery control/display .......................................... 8
Feeding broiler breeders per house• groups feed registration .................................................................. 12• feed lines/circuits with 1 or 2 hoppers/cross augers each ... 4x12• number of cross augers .................................................................... 4• load containers per cross auger ...................................................... 1• feed curves during the production cycle........................................ 8• continuous weigher FW 99-B ........................................................... 1 (four houses share one scale)• number of silos .................................................................................... 8
Animal weighing• poultry scale Swing 20 ..................................................................... 12
Light• light groups (digital or dimmable, optionally with light sensor) ...................................................................................2/2/1
Water• water meter (broilers/breeders) .................................................2/12• solenoid valve for time control ......................................................... 1 - shut-off at high flow rates ...........................................................yes
• water alarm in case of values higher/lower than values of the previous day ......................................................................... yes
• water level monitoring at the ventilation lines ........................... yes
FarmPowerManagement• energy counter for house-wide or individual measurements ....10
Special functions• alarm input fire alarm system ....................................................... yes• alarm input phase monitoring ....................................................... yes• freely adjustable timers (e.g. outside illumination) ......................10• freely adjustable day counters (e.g. gas meter) ...........................10• operating hour counter for all drives........................................... yes• free alarms for each functional area (e.g. RCCB-release,
control cabinet, motor protection switch) .....................................10• monitoring of temperature & water after end of production ... yes
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