Sorting the mail, eating lunch, scrolling through Facebook – these daily events can take about 15 minutes. And that’s all it takes to perform a few key assessments to help ensure your milking robot is operating at the highest level.

Three dairy producers, each operating with more than a dozen milking robots, said using robots was a big transition for their farm. They’ve been closely analyzing the data to see how it’s paying off and setting goals for the future.