In the run-up to Agritechnica 2011, the show’s Innovations Commission has awarded five Amazone innovations with silver medals.
All the Innovations are based on efficiency improvement systems that relieve stress on the operator and also serve to further improve the protection of the environment. The company’s first medal is for the WindControl application, designed for Amazone’s new Amapad operating terminal. It can be used for balancing out the wind influence when using centrifugal fertiliser broadcasters. Thanks to WindControl, the areas covered, even in difficult wind conditions, are fertilised with an optimal lateral distribution that leads to the crop remaining standing better and thus higher profits.
The second innovation is for Amazone’s HeadlandControl. This is an application for the Amapad that makes possible an optimised fertiliser application when used in conjunction with a centrifugal fertiliser broadcaster in the areas around field borders, especially on the headland. The system consists of an automatically changeable, disc-integrated border spreading device coupled with spreader-orientated software for the controller.
The new applications AcuraSpray, SmartRefill and WorkToZero received a silver medal. This terminal software for sprayers optimises the refill times and minimises, at the same time, the residual spray volumes left after the last application before undergoing a change of chemical.
The BoomWash innovation was recognised as being the first external cleaning system that can be remotely controlled from the tractor seat for booms on a sprayer. This system consists of a moving sledge fitted with wash nozzles, that cleans the outsides of the sprayer boom in the field during the folding-in process.
The fifth and final Amazone innovation to be recognised is ‘Toni’ (Telematics on Implement) and is a joint development between Claas Agrosystems, Amazone and five other machinery manufacturers. Toni makes possible an immediate application data transfer, via Isobus, between the tractor, its attached machine and the farm office.
At the same time, Toni serves as a long-distance diagnostics system for analysis, evaluation, adjustment optimisation plus the documentation of each task carried out by the tractor and implement.
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