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New service picks up piggery problems

Eight months without a piggery fan working. Easy to spot? No! Fans are often set to work in sequence and may be idle for pre-determined periods – which was why an East Anglian farmer failed to notice it. However, this fault was picked up by professional analysis of the data provided by the farm’s monitoring system.

13 December 2017
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ArmbuildingsA new “pro-active” service being offered by ARM Buildings is now routinely picking up malfunctions such as these and also alerting pig farmers when their piggeries need servicing.

“Our Barn Report Pro monitoring system has proved to be extremely popular but farmers don’t always study the data provided in enough detail, so can miss vital clues when something is not quite right in their piggeries,” commented Tim Miller, ARM’s environmental specialist.

Undergraduate-on-placement, Liv Hartshorn, checks the inlet airspeed in a piggery during a visit for a routine service.Recently, many farms have been visited for physical testing of air pressure, inlet speeds and other key functions on houses that have been running for a few years. This has then been compared with data from the monitoring printouts. “We found a good correlation and now all ARM sites are being checked by undergraduate-on-placement, Liv Hartshorn, on a daily basis. Farmers are contacted if there is a problem. Sometimes it is as simple as the cables stretching so the inlets don’t open sufficiently,” said Tim.

“Detailed pressure-testing and other checks are carried out when new piggeries are commissioned, but piggery ventilation systems need regular servicing and we can pick up when this is overdue,” he added.

12 December 2017- ARM Buildings.

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