VMS Overview
VMS Overview is an application available in the Equipment menu that helps you monitor and analyze the performance of your VMS™ milking robots. Its purpose is to provide a clear and centralized view of your equipment, making it easier to track daily performance and identify VMS units that may require attention.
Equipment overview: all your VMS milking robots compared at a glance
The Equipment overview page helps you to compare all VMS units on your farm from a single dashboard.
You can select the time period you would like to analyse:
Last 24 hours
Last 7 days
Last 30 days
Last 90 days.
Once a period is selected, all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are automatically updated to reflect the corresponding values.
This overview helps you to:
Quickly identify your best-performing VMS units.
Detect those VMS robots that may require your attention.
Compare performance across multiple VMS units.
Follow performance trends over different time periods.
In this view, you can compare the VMS on the selected period for the following indicators:
Average number of
Alarms per day
Warnings per day
Average total milk yield per day
Average % kickoff per day
Average % incomplete milking per day
Average attachment time per milking
VMS overview: Get more insight on one specific VMS
By selecting a specific VMS, especially one highlighted with an attention indicator, you can access a detailed view containing all available Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Expand this section to see the definition of the 12 KPIs in this tab
Alarms : average number of stop alarms per day.
Average total milk yield per day (kg) : total yield per day.
Number of milkings : average number of milkings per day.
Average milk flow (kg/min): Total Yield / Total Milking Time per milking.
Average preparation time (mm:ss): average time spent for cleaning and cup attachment per milking.
Average teat attachment time (mm:ss): average time that it takes for the VMS to attach the milking cups per milking.
Average milking time (mm:ss) : average milking time - counted from when milk is flowing.
Average box time (mm:ss): average time duration per milking from when the cow is identified by the VMS and when the VMS exit door opens at the end of the milking.
Incomplete milkings (%): average number of incompletes milking per day.
Kick-offs (%): average number of milkings where kick-offs occured.
Number of cleanings : average number of VMS's cleanings per day. Cleaning is counted as an initiated system cleaning (not a local one), when it meets the following conditions:
Total cleaning time is more than 6 minutes (360 seconds).
Minimum one step includes detergent (acid, alkali, or disinfectant).
Idle time (hh:mm): average idle time for the VMS per day (box time - cleaning time - down time).
These KPIs provide a quick and effective way to evaluate your robot performance and identify potential causes of reduced efficiency.
