Digi-Star University provides an overview of their TMR Tracker feed management software and EZ3600V digital scale indicator. The software allows users to create recipes, assign pens, track inventory, and generate reports. Data is uploaded from the PC software to the scale indicator via USB. Key benefits include monitoring feed costs, improving decision making with data, and ensuring consistent feeding. The online access feature allows remote viewing of farm data and automatic report distribution.

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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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