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Keith Ortiz

Keith Ortiz

Architect and Project Design Specialist / DeLaval
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Concevoir une étable robotisée avec barrière d'accès

Lors de la conception d’une nouvelle installation de traite robotisée, il vaut la peine d’envisager les avantages des conceptions avec barrière d’accès par rapport aux configurations perpendiculaires.
December 5, 2025
Keith Ortiz

Au cours des dernières décennies, l’industrie laitière a conçu une multitude d’étables pour la traite robotisée, donnant lieu à des centaines de configurations différentes, étant toutes des variantes de deux modèles principaux : perpendiculaire et avec barrière d’accès.


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The ‘toll’ of an automated milking barn design

When designing a new automated milking facility, consider the advantages of tollbooth designs over perpendicular configurations.
June 25, 2025
Keith Ortiz

The dairy industry has spent the last few decades designing barns for automated milking – resulting in hundreds of different configurations – all of which have been a variation of two robots layouts: perpendicular and tollbooth.


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Biosecurity on your farm

July 19, 2021
Keith Ortiz
With the recent pandemic paralyzing the world economy and affecting the majority of households, the threat of disease in the dairy industry has large potential in regard to animal housing.
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Reconstructing the idea of a retrofit

April 17, 2020
Keith Ortiz
Retrofitting a dairy barn has been a popular choice to make upgrades more affordable than they would be when building new, yet “retrofitting” isn’t unique to the dairy industry.
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