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2. Welcome
Who is Digi-Star?
 30 years of electronic agriculture scale design
 Fort Atkinson, WI USA & The Netherlands
 Provide weighing and data sharing solutions to OEM’s
 TMR Tracker: Progressive Feed Management Software
 24 Hour Help Desk, Unlimited Remote Service
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3. Welcome
 What is a Feed Management Software Program?
 TMR Tracker benefits
 PC Software & TMR mixer scale overview
 Reports & Internet On-line features
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4. Scale & Software Solution
 EZ3600V software compatible digital scale indicator
-works with any scale system, trailer or stationary
 TMR Tracker Feed Management PC Software permits
inputting ingredients, creating recipes and pens/ groups
at the pc, in your office
 PC created feed instructions are uploaded into the mixer
scale via USB memory stick
 Weight, date, time, pen, recipe, operator, ingredients, … is
recorded into memory and later retrieved from scale with
USB stick for review
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5. Benefits of Feed Management Software
• Monitor feed usage - single largest variable expense
• Make better decisions with actual feeding data. Accurate DMI’s
• Healthy cows. Reduce nutrition related concerns. Cows perform best with
consistent feeding
• Interest feed operators to help resolve feeding and animal health concerns
• Make easy changes to ingredient moisture %
• Evaluate operators loading/feeding struggles
• Monitor feed inventory and usage projections
• Simplifies batching for feed operator
• Data is readily exchanged with existing management products
• Review TMR Tracker remotely with OnLine access. Compare your results with
other similar size farms
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6. Why TMR Tracker?
• Easy to Use Software and Scale Indicator
• One Company Delivers Hardware & Software
• 24 Hour Helpdesk, Online Updates & Support
• Software Levels and Hardware options to customize for any operation
• 15+ Languages
• Automatic Online Database Backup
• Links to Herd Management Software – DC305, Dairy Plan, PC Dart, Afi Farm
and others
• Affordably Priced
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8. Home Screen
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1. Ingredients
2. Rations
3. Pen Feeding Data
4. Inventory Report
5. Edit Pens
6. Send Data – Pen Feeding Order
7. Receive Data
8. Weigh back – Refusal Feed
9. Mixer Data
10. Users – Mixer Operators
11. DMI Report
12. E-Tracker – Send Data
13. Help
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9. Dashboard
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10. Entering Data
• Ingredients • Pens
• Ingredient list • Pen Number
• Short name • Head Counts
• Feeding Amounts
• Dry Matter %
• Price per Lbs/Ton
• Ration & Premix
• Lbs/Kgs per head or % of
Ingredient
• Loading Order
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11. Ingredient Library
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12. Ingredient Add/Edit
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13. Ingredient and Recipe building
features
• Loading Order
• What is the best loading order?
• Difficulties on small ingredients, Weigh movement
•Mixer timer/ Revolution counter
• Advancing Ingredients/Pens
• Setup % Tolerance and Delay on Scale Indicator
• Setup Actual Weight Tolerance on the PC
• Auto vs. Manual Advance
• Duration Time before advance, expl:
Auto advance on Ingredients – Manual advance on Pens
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14. Recipe Add/Edit
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15. Pen Add/Edit
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16. Edit Pen
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17. Send Data – Feeding Order
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18. Mixer Add/Edit
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19. Ingredient Delivery (Inventory)
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20. EZ3600V
 Advanced Batching
Indicator
 Program with PC or at
Indicator
 USB Drive Data Transfer
 Datalink (wireless) Data
Transfer
 Change Pen Call Wt and
Head Count
 Reuse Feeding, day after
day
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21. Inventory Receipt Record
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22. Reports
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23. Reports
Daily/Weekly/Monthly
• Daily Reports
 Load Report
 DMI Report
 Recipe Delivery Report
 Pen Delivery Report
• Weekly Reports
 DMI Trend Report
 Group Delivery Time
 Operator Accuracy
• Monthly
 Ingredient Usage
 Ingredient Usage by Pen
 Projected Inventory Requirements
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25. Load Report Record
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26. Load Detail Report
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27. DMI Report
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28. Ingredient Usage
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29. Who benefits from TMR Tracker?
•Incentives to the operator
 What % error is acceptable?
 Paycheck Bonus for acceptable error %
•Reporting
 Reports for the Producer
 Reports for the Nutritionist/Consultant
 Reports for the Bank
•TMR Tracker Online
 Access reports and data online
 Automatically email reports to anyone
•Cows
 Consistent recipe, consistent feeding time
Healthy cows make more milk, make you more money!
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30. TMR Tracker Online
(Online Remote Access)
 Producers can view their data from any PC
 Nutritionist can easily view all their clients
 Auto email reports to any email address
 Edit data online and update PC at farm
 View on smart phones – Android, i phone
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31. Why TMR Tracker?
 Easy to use PC Feed Management Software
 One Company provides both the scale and software
 Multiple Languages
 Remote On-line Access
 Compatible with Dairy Herd Management Programs
 ValMetal Help Desk - Certified to Support TMR Tracker
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32. Questions?
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33. Thank You!
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