Plan­ning, doc­u­ment­ing and analysing

Plan­ning, doc­u­ment­ing and analysing

With CLAAS connect

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CLAAS con­nect helps agri­cul­tur­al busi­ness­es dig­i­tal­ly plan field work, doc­u­ment it clean­ly and then eval­u­ate the col­lect­ed data in a mean­ing­ful way. 

For 365FarmNet cus­tomers, this cre­ates a new work­ing envi­ron­ment that address­es many famil­iar prac­ti­cal require­ments: from field and crop rota­tion plan­ning, auto­mat­ic doc­u­men­ta­tion and mobile work process­es through to maps, exports and reports.

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Every­thing in view: cen­tral­ly man­age farms, fields, machines and activities

  • Cen­tral overview of farms, fields, machines, peo­ple and work processes
  • Fil­ter activ­i­ties by farm, field, crop, peri­od, machine or input
  • Track ongo­ing and com­plet­ed work in the office and on mobile devices
  • Fast access to rel­e­vant process infor­ma­tion direct­ly in CLAAS connect

Day-to-day farm­ing involves many indi­vid­ual pieces of infor­ma­tion: farms, fields, machines, work process­es, inputs, peo­ple and har­vest data. CLAAS con­nect brings this data togeth­er in one cen­tral place and makes it usable for plan­ning, doc­u­men­ta­tion and analysis.

Work process­es can be fil­tered by farms, fields, crops, peri­ods, machines, peo­ple or inputs. This helps you main­tain an overview even when there are many activ­i­ties and find the infor­ma­tion you cur­rent­ly need more quick­ly. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly help­ful when sev­er­al farms, cus­tomers or areas are being managed.

Rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion is also dis­played direct­ly on the mobile device in the Farm Man­age­ment app. Ongo­ing activ­i­ties appear on the map, process data is vis­i­ble on the machine detail page and work progress can be tracked direct­ly. This cre­ates a fast overview of ongo­ing and com­plet­ed work — in the office and in the field.

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Sim­pli­fy plan­ning: effi­cient­ly pre­pare crop rota­tions, seed and col­lec­tive operations

  • Plan crops and crop rota­tions across mul­ti­ple har­vest years
  • Cre­ate col­lec­tive oper­a­tions for sev­er­al fields at the same time
  • Cal­cu­late seed quan­ti­ty and seed­ing rate based on rel­e­vant parameters
  • Use con­sis­tent plan­ning as the basis for clean documentation

Good doc­u­men­ta­tion starts at the plan­ning stage. CLAAS con­nect helps you pre­pare crops, crop rota­tions and work process­es in a struc­tured way across sev­er­al fields.

Basic crop rota­tion plan­ning gives you an overview of his­tor­i­cal and planned crops. You can plan crops for one or more fields, fil­ter by date, farm, crop, name or size and add har­vest years in the past or future. Crops derived from activ­i­ties are linked to the cor­re­spond­ing activ­i­ties and are locked for edit­ing. This keeps plan­ning trans­par­ent and consistent.

Col­lec­tive oper­a­tions also make work eas­i­er: activ­i­ties can be planned or doc­u­ment­ed for sev­er­al fields at the same time. A sep­a­rate activ­i­ty is cre­at­ed for each field. This saves time when the same mea­sure — for exam­ple sow­ing, har­vest­ing or an input order — is planned for mul­ti­ple areas.

For sow­ing, CLAAS con­nect pro­vides addi­tion­al sup­port for cal­cu­lat­ing seed quan­ti­ty and seed­ing rate. Thou­sand grain weight, ger­mi­na­tion rate and seed den­si­ty can be tak­en into account. The sow­ing quan­ti­ty can be cal­cu­lat­ed in dif­fer­ent units such as kg/ha, seeds/m² or seeds/ha. This helps pre­pare machines cor­rect­ly and doc­u­ment orders consistently.

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Doc­u­ment field work: auto­mat­i­cal­ly record and clean­ly con­sol­i­date work processes

  • Auto­mat­i­cal­ly merge sim­i­lar activ­i­ties into one work process
  • Include work process­es from ISOXML, app, AutoDoc or man­u­al entry
  • Use bulk edit­ing for sev­er­al activ­i­ties at the same time
  • Few­er man­u­al cor­rec­tions and clear­er activ­i­ty lists

CLAAS con­nect sim­pli­fies field work doc­u­men­ta­tion through auto­mat­ic and man­u­al func­tions. Work process­es can orig­i­nate from dif­fer­ent sources, for exam­ple ISOXML, the app, AutoDoc or man­u­al entry.

Sim­i­lar activ­i­ties that orig­i­nal­ly belong togeth­er can be merged auto­mat­i­cal­ly. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly rel­e­vant when work process­es have been record­ed sep­a­rate­ly due to inter­rup­tions, sev­er­al sub-orders or dif­fer­ent data sources. CLAAS con­nect checks fac­tors includ­ing field, machine type, activ­i­ty type, har­vest, har­vest prod­uct, inven­to­ry and peri­od, and merges match­ing activ­i­ties. The orig­i­nal indi­vid­ual activ­i­ties remain avail­able in the back­ground and can be saved for ref­er­ence purposes.

In the mobile app, sim­i­lar work process­es are also auto­mat­i­cal­ly con­sol­i­dat­ed into a sin­gle activ­i­ty. This makes the activ­i­ty list clear­er, reduces man­u­al effort and keeps doc­u­men­ta­tion clean and trace­able. Dri­ving times, machine data and per­son­nel data can be shown in detail.

For larg­er data vol­umes, bulk edit­ing of work process­es is also avail­able. Sev­er­al activ­i­ties can be select­ed and attrib­ut­es such as har­vest year, date or activ­i­ty type can be adjust­ed in one step. This saves time and helps avoid errors in exten­sive activ­i­ty lists.

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Mobile doc­u­men­ta­tion: dis­play, edit and export work process­es direct­ly in the app

  • Check and edit work process­es direct­ly on the smartphone
  • Export com­plet­ed activ­i­ties as PDF or CSV
  • Dis­play and adjust NIR val­ues for organ­ic fer­til­i­sa­tion direct­ly in the app
  • View work and yield maps in the respec­tive oper­a­tion on mobile devices

The CLAAS con­nect Farm Man­age­ment app brings cen­tral func­tions direct­ly to the smart­phone. Work process­es can be dis­played, checked, edit­ed and shared while on the move.

Com­plet­ed work process­es can be export­ed in the app as CSV or PDF. The CSV export con­tains raw data and is suit­able for indi­vid­ual analy­ses in Excel or oth­er appli­ca­tions. The PDF export makes it pos­si­ble to share com­plet­ed work process­es direct­ly from the mobile device — for exam­ple by email or mes­sen­ger. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly prac­ti­cal when orders for fer­til­i­sa­tion, crop pro­tec­tion or har­vest­ing need to be for­ward­ed direct­ly to cus­tomers with­out prepar­ing the analy­sis in the office.

The dis­play of NIR val­ues is also sup­port­ed in the app. For organ­ic fer­til­i­sa­tion, deliv­ered NIR data, such as nutri­ent con­tents includ­ing nitro­gen, phos­pho­rus or dry mat­ter, can become vis­i­ble direct­ly in the activ­i­ty. Val­ues can be checked and adjust­ed if required. This improves data qual­i­ty and reduces lat­er corrections.

Map views are also avail­able in the app for har­vest­ing and work process­es. Yield maps can be dis­played direct­ly with­in a work process. This makes it pos­si­ble to quick­ly iden­ti­fy yield dif­fer­ences in the field and select addi­tion­al map layers.

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Use machine data: inte­grate mixed fleets, tracks and ongo­ing activities

  • Con­nect CLAAS machines and third-par­ty machines in CLAAS connect
  • Track ongo­ing activ­i­ties direct­ly on the map
  • Analyse tracks over longer periods
  • Use machine and imple­ment data as a basis for doc­u­men­ta­tion and analysis

Many farms work with mixed machine fleets. CLAAS con­nect is designed to bring togeth­er data from dif­fer­ent machines and data sources cen­tral­ly. The goal is a plat­form on which machines — regard­less of brand and age — can be record­ed, tracked and used for doc­u­men­ta­tion and analysis.

CLAAS machines and third-par­ty machines can be doc­u­ment­ed in CLAAS con­nect. Var­i­ous options are planned for inte­gra­tion: via the CLAAS con­nect app as a posi­tion track­er, via addi­tion­al teleme­try hardware.

In the app, ongo­ing activ­i­ties are dis­played direct­ly on the map. Auto­mat­i­cal­ly detect­ed work can there­fore be record­ed quick­ly and assigned to the respec­tive fields. Teleme­try data with and with­out ref­er­ence to an activ­i­ty is clear­ly sep­a­rat­ed to pre­vent confusion.

Tracks are also becom­ing more usable. Each track point con­tains addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion such as time­stamp, machine and imple­ment. If ‘Today’ is includ­ed in the peri­od, cur­rent machine data is dis­played in the live con­text. His­tor­i­cal peri­ods show the cor­re­spond­ing past track information.

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Field bound­aries and maps: pre­cise­ly man­age, com­bine and analyse areas

  • Cre­ate, split and merge field bound­aries direct­ly in the Geocenter
  • Use tracks and map lay­ers when draw­ing field boundaries
  • Com­bine and fur­ther process point data and con­tour maps
  • Use maps as the basis for analy­ses and pre­scrip­tion maps

A reli­able field struc­ture is the basis for plan­ning, doc­u­men­ta­tion and analy­sis. CLAAS con­nect offers var­i­ous func­tions to make bet­ter use of field bound­aries, map lay­ers and point data.

Field bound­aries can be split or merged man­u­al­ly. After a split or merge, new fields are cre­at­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Each field retains a ref­er­ence to pre­de­ces­sors and suc­ces­sors. This helps doc­u­ment changes in a trace­able way. Exist­ing activ­i­ties remain unchanged; edits are pos­si­ble as long as there are no activ­i­ties on the affect­ed field.

In the Geo­cen­ter, field bound­aries can be cre­at­ed or edit­ed direct­ly. Tracks and oth­er map lay­ers that are vis­i­ble in the cur­rent view are avail­able when cre­at­ing and edit­ing field bound­aries. This allows field bound­aries to be drawn more pre­cise­ly based on machine tracks, point maps or oth­er map data.

In addi­tion, sev­er­al map lay­ers of the same map type can be com­bined. Point data from dif­fer­ent machines or orders can be com­bined before being used as a con­tour map. Con­tour maps can also be used to cre­ate overviews — for exam­ple annu­al weighed har­vests across all fields.

A tool for cre­at­ing con­tour maps is avail­able for point data. Raw data such as NIR data or actu­al val­ue maps can be man­u­al­ly cleaned and inter­po­lat­ed. The result­ing con­tour maps can be saved, down­loaded or used as the basis for pre­scrip­tion maps.

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Under­stand har­vest data: analyse yield maps, NIR val­ues and chop­ping quality

  • Dis­play yield maps direct­ly in the work process
  • Analyse yields as dry mat­ter or fresh matter
  • Make NIR val­ues for organ­ic fer­til­i­sa­tion vis­i­ble and editable
  • Eval­u­ate chop­ping qual­i­ty direct­ly in the field using the CSPS value

Har­vest data pro­vides valu­able infor­ma­tion about the per­for­mance of indi­vid­ual areas. CLAAS con­nect makes this data more vis­i­ble and eas­i­er to use.

Yield maps can be dis­played direct­ly in the work process in the app. Yield dif­fer­ences in the field are there­fore quick­ly vis­i­ble. Depend­ing on the avail­able data basis, fur­ther map lay­ers can be select­ed, for exam­ple con­tour maps, point data maps or maps from indi­vid­ual machines.

he dis­play of yields as dry mat­ter or fresh mat­ter is also sup­port­ed. Infor­ma­tion on har­vest prod­ucts can be sup­ple­ment­ed with dry mat­ter and fresh mat­ter pro­por­tions. The val­ues are cal­cu­lat­ed to a total of 100 per­cent and can be edit­ed. This allows dif­fer­ent require­ments to be rep­re­sent­ed more effec­tive­ly depend­ing on the crop.

For for­age har­vesters, the chop­ping qual­i­ty app pro­vides addi­tion­al sup­port. It helps deter­mine the corn silage pro­cess­ing score as a CSPS val­ue. The high­er the val­ue, the bet­ter the ker­nels are processed and can be digest­ed by rumi­nants. The analy­sis is avail­able in the CLAAS con­nect app and can also be retro­fit­ted for cer­tain JAGUAR machines. This enables har­vest qual­i­ty to be assessed direct­ly in the field.

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Analyse con­sump­tion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty: doc­u­ment inputs, fuel and CO₂

  • Analyse con­sump­tion of seed, fer­tilis­er, crop pro­tec­tion prod­ucts, water and fuel
  • Fil­ter inputs by peri­od, farm, field or crop
  • Doc­u­ment CO₂ emis­sions based on diesel consumption
  • Use con­sump­tion data as the basis for records and farm analyses

In addi­tion to pure work doc­u­men­ta­tion, the analy­sis of inputs, con­sump­tion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty indi­ca­tors is becom­ing increas­ing­ly impor­tant. CLAAS con­nect helps make con­sump­tion data vis­i­ble in a struc­tured way.

The con­sump­tion report bun­dles inputs and resources used in booked activ­i­ties. These include, for exam­ple, seed, fer­tilis­er, crop pro­tec­tion prod­ucts, water, fuel and lubri­cants. The data can be fil­tered by peri­od, farm, field, crop or input. This cre­ates a clear overview of which inputs were used on which areas.

The reports help iden­ti­fy con­sump­tion pat­terns and check doc­u­men­ta­tion data more quick­ly. Indi­vid­ual activ­i­ties can be traced from the report, allow­ing cor­rec­tions to be made in a tar­get­ed way. Results can be out­put as PDF or export­ed for fur­ther analyses.

Fuel-relat­ed CO₂ doc­u­men­ta­tion is also sup­port­ed. Based on diesel con­sump­tion, CO₂ emis­sions can be shown in activ­i­ties and PDF reports. This makes it eas­i­er to pro­vide emis­sions data, for exam­ple for require­ments in milk pro­duc­tion or for sub­strate sup­pli­ers to bio­gas plants.

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Reports and exports: process data fur­ther as PDF, CSV or ISOXML

  • Export work process­es as PDF or CSV
  • Reuse raw data for indi­vid­ual analyses
  • Pro­vide com­plet­ed work process­es as ISOXML
  • Eas­i­ly share doc­u­men­ta­tion data with cus­tomers, part­ners or systems

Doc­u­ment­ed data must not only be vis­i­ble; it must also be pos­si­ble to process it fur­ther. CLAAS con­nect offers var­i­ous export options for this.

Work process­es can be export­ed in the mobile app as CSV or PDF. CSV files are suit­able for raw data analy­ses, while PDF files are use­ful for quick­ly shar­ing infor­ma­tion with cus­tomers, part­ners or inter­nal contacts.

Com­plet­ed work process­es can also be export­ed as ISOXML. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly rel­e­vant when no orig­i­nal ISOXML order file is avail­able but the activ­i­ty data still needs to be trans­ferred to a ter­mi­nal or anoth­er FMIS. The export­ed TASK­DA­TA can be used like com­plet­ed TASK­DA­TA from a ter­mi­nal. In a fur­ther step, point data infor­ma­tion, for exam­ple yield data, can also be insert­ed into the export file.

CLAAS con­nect there­fore sup­ports both day-to-day doc­u­men­ta­tion and fur­ther pro­cess­ing in exist­ing process­es — from mobile PDFs to struc­tured data exports.

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ZEn­able col­lab­o­ra­tion: share machines, release data and doc­u­ment process­es together

  • Share machine data from select­ed machines for a lim­it­ed period
  • Facil­i­tate col­lab­o­ra­tion between farms, con­trac­tors and partners
  • Sup­port auto­mat­ic doc­u­men­ta­tion of con­tract work
  • Cre­ate more trans­paren­cy in joint work and doc­u­men­ta­tion processes

Agri­cul­tur­al process­es often do not take place with­in a sin­gle farm alone. Con­trac­tors, farms, deal­ers and part­ners work togeth­er on machines, fields and data. CLAAS con­nect is devel­op­ing func­tions to bet­ter sup­port this collaboration.

Machine Shar­ing is intend­ed to make it pos­si­ble to share machine data from select­ed machines with oth­er organ­i­sa­tions for a lim­it­ed peri­od. This allows machines to be used by both organ­i­sa­tions as reg­u­lar machines. It sim­pli­fies fleet and data man­age­ment and cre­ates more trans­paren­cy between con­trac­tors, farms, deal­ers and customers.

One impor­tant use case is the auto­mat­ic doc­u­men­ta­tion of work car­ried out by con­trac­tors on cus­tomers’ fields. If machine data can be shared secure­ly and in a tar­get­ed way, man­u­al effort is reduced, data gaps are min­imised and a bet­ter basis is cre­at­ed for joint doc­u­men­ta­tion and analysis.

The inte­gra­tion of machines from dif­fer­ent brands and years of man­u­fac­ture also con­tributes to this objec­tive: all rel­e­vant data should come togeth­er in one place so that field work becomes usable doc­u­men­ta­tion and doc­u­men­ta­tion becomes usable insight.