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ANIMAL HEALTH

GEA at EuroTier 2026

GEA will show how digital and au- adding a semi-subway concept for The new semi-automatic milking system
tomated technologies can help farms automated group milking. The solu-
address current challenges such as tion combines fixed milking times, tional milking systems and regions.
labor shortages, cost pressure and predictable operating routines and New sensor generation for precise
rising expectations for animal wel- automated processes with lower civ- milk data in rotary milking systems
fare. Under the anniversary theme il engineering requirements, provid-
“100 Years of Farm Innovation,” GEA ing an additional option particularly GEA will also show the Digital Flow
will present its portfolio for modern for medium-sized to large farms and Meter at EuroTier, a sensor genera-
dairy farming – from milking systems modernization projects. tion for measuring milk yield in con-
and automated feeding to intelligent GEA DairyProX: Automation ventional rotary milking systems.
herd management. Building on more boost for conventional milking The sensor records the actual milk
than 100 years of experience, GEA parlors with subway volume directly in the milk flow, sup-
combines proven know-how with ports high flow rates and provides
connected next-generation systems. For dairy farms looking to contin- precise data for the milking process,
Trade fair highlights include the an- ue using their existing conventional herd management and milk record-
niversary edition of the DairyRobot milking parlors while increasing the ing. GEA is responding to the in-
R9500 in GEA’s Kinetic Edge product level of automation, GEA is introduc- creasing performance requirements
design, a new system for semi-auto- ing DairyProX, a new semi-automat- of modern dairy farms and the grow-
mated group milking in convention- ed milking system. In this setup, teat ing importance of accurate, digitally
al milking parlors and solutions for cup attachment remains a manual available data. With the Digital Flow
using data across multiple farm sites task, while the In-Liner-Everything Meter, GEA replaces the Metatron
as well as camera-based cow identi- technology performs much of the milk yield measuring device.
fication. milking routine inside the teat cup Connected data – integrated by
itself automatically. This can include
GEA DairyRobot with a new look stimulation, teat cleaning, dipping design and scaled in the cloud
– and more intelligence for daily procedures and milking processes As sensors and assistance systems
barn routines as well as backflushing of the teat generate increasing volumes of data,
With the DairyRobot R9500, GEA cups. Initial experience from pilot intelligently connecting and analyz-
will present the anniversary edition farms suggests the system has the ing this information in herd manage-
ment software is becoming more im-
of its automatic milking system for potential to increase throughput, portant. With CowScout Cloud, GEA
the first time in the group-wide Kinet- reduce labor requirements and sup- presents the next generation of con-
ic Edge product design. In addition port improvements in milk quality nected herd monitoring. The cloud-
to the updated appearance, the lat- metrics. based solution centralizes individ-
est development includes a range of Initially launched in North America ual cow monitoring data, enables
functional and digital enhancements for selected system configurations, multi-farm management by consol-
for everyday barn operations. These DairyProX serves as the foundation idating and evaluating animal and
include a larger control screen, a for GEA’s ongoing evaluation of po- operational information across sites,
new status display concept, optimi- tential future applications in addi- and integrates with GEA DairyNet
zations in the milking process and
additions within GEA DairyNet, in-
cluding CattleEye and AutoDry for
automatic milking systems as well
as a multi-farm management module
for farms operating at several sites.
Semi-subway concept for auto-
mated group milking

To meet the needs of different farm
concepts, GEA is expanding its port- GEA DairyNet Cow Verification is a new cam- The GEA DairyRobot R9600 expands the batch
folio with the DairyRobot R9600, era-based milking portfolio.
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