Machine milking

Milk is removed through the teats, generally by machine milking, although hand milking is still done. 

Fig. M-58. Cows being machine milked in a milking parlor. Note that the milk is piped directly into a refrigerated storage tank without exposure—all very sanitary. (Courtesy, USDA)...

Medical uses for Udel resin include surgical trays, nebulizers, flow controllers for blood, and respiration regulators. Transportation applications center around automotive fuse housings, electrical connectors, and switches. Electrical and electronic end uses include coil bobbins, housings, connectors, bushings, capacitor film, and business machine parts. EinaHy, water, heater dip tubes, milking machine parts, pollution control equipment, and some filtration membranes are made. 

Let me tell you how things were in the heady days of the late 1960s, when scientists (like me) and engineers first got their hands on computers. Computers were very large beasts, and they consumed very many kilojoules (kilocalories in those days, or if you are a North American reader) per unit time. If you believe in the law of conservation of energy, you will understand why such machines had a refrigeration plant, where the three resident engineers kept the milk for their coffee. 

Teat skin, teat canal Contamination Environment, udder anatomy, milking machine... 

There are reports that the use of robotic milking systems will significantly reduce mastitis, linked at least partially to the machines more efficient teat disinfection compared to human operators. However, the more frequent visit to be milked and more gentle application and removal of milking equipment from the teats may also contribute to reduced mastitis incidence. On the other hand, the absence of human operators in robotically milked herds may lead to late detection and treatment of mastitis. However, this may be overcome by the introduction of conductivity detection systems which allow early signs of mastitis to be detected (Hogeveen and Meijering, 2000). 

Myllys, V., Honkanen-Buzalski, T., Huovinen, P., Sandholm, M. and Nurmi, E. (1994), Association of changes in the bacterial ecology of bovine mastitis with changes in the use of milking machines and antibacterial drugs . Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 363-369. 

Ciosek, P., Brudzewski, K., and Wroblewski, W. (2006a). Milk classification by means of an electronic tongue and Support Vector Machine neural network. Meas. Sci. Technol. 17(6), 1379-1384. 

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