Kuhn Farm Machinery’s Axmat system provides radar-controlled online measurement, adjustment and regulation system for fertiliser spreading on the company’s Axis two-disc spreaders, resulting in the first fertiliser spreader worldwide that features fully-automatic adjustment of spreading for the required working width.
At the same time, the application rate is precisely controlled during operation. The online monitoring system detects changes in the physical fertiliser properties and compensates the influences on spreading and metering. The spreading pattern no longer needs to be controlled by a practical test set or manual calibration.
The innovative, maintenance-free radar technology is fitted to an electrically driven 180-degree swivelling arm under the rotating spreader outlet, and permanently and fully automatically records the expansion of the spread range. The smart Axmat radar technology is not affected by dust, dirt or weather conditions.
The intelligent Axmat software immediately detects whether the spreading pattern fits the required working width. If the spread range deviates from the optimum setting, the Axis spreading system immediately carries out respective automatic adjustments.
In parallel, the spreader material is also automatically adjusted by means of the well-known 100Hz weigh-cell technology or the electronic mass flow control and regulation system. In this way, Axmat not only adjusts the ideal working width and spreading rate completely automatically, but also detects and compensates deviations in fertiliser flow properties caused by physical differences in different batches of fertiliser, or changes to flow characteristics caused by the weather.
Axmat closes the last gap in precise fertiliser spreading automation and opens up impressive new ways of improving economic and environmental aspects of cost-effective spreading of mineral fertilisers.
The Axmat concept was awarded a Gold Medals at Agritechnica in 2013 and the Innovation Technical Award at Eima 2014.
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