Hagerman & Company is uniquely qualified to customize a solution for your specific application.
Our Agricultural Automation Solutions enable:
- A safer work environment with Hazard Monitoring
- Improved visualization of your grain flow process
- Reduced grain mixture errors
- Simplified system configurations
- Energy savings
- Remote viewing and control
- Overhead and production cost improvements
Example Projects:
Agricultural Industry
A large agriculture industry manufacturer needed an advanced, positive pressure ventilation system to protect livestock from airborne pathogens. The system forces filtered air out of a building, preventing unfiltered, outdoor air from entering the animal living areas that might otherwise be compromised from air leaks or open-air inlets in a negative pressure environment. This reduces the chance of exposure to airborne pathogens providing an effective solution for maintaining healthy air quality for animals.
Challenges:
- Reduce overall system cost to end customer through energy conservation.
- Design user friendly system for monitoring and maintaining building temperature and pressure.
- Develop system maintaining balance between static and variable speed fans.
- Capability needed to remotely diagnose and troubleshoot systems.
Solutions:
- Developed program to operate static and variable speed fans according to user parameters.
- Developed user interfaces and secure remote access control.
- Designed and manufacture system UL control panels.
- Maintain program version control remotely as a disaster recovery safeguard.
Grain Processing:
An agriculture grain elevator needed to enhance the transfer and storage of farm crops.
Challenges:
- Update the control system to better facilitate ease of operations.
- Eliminate human errors to prevent cross-contamination and under/over dispensed product.
- Wanted remote monitoring.
Solution:
- Designed a system to automate product transfer through the drying process to the correct silo storage.
- Develop machine interlocks to remove human error of cross-contamination for different ag commodities.
- Streamlines the loading/unloading of trucks to prevent over/under fulfilling through automation.
- Installed remote access to control, monitor, and report system status via mobile devices or PCs.
- Integrated Precia Molen bulk weigher control into PLC.