Active Fill Control
- Automated 3D filling ensures even fills in trucks or trailers
- Reduces operator tasks and minimizes silage loss
- Improves harvest efficiency, day or night
- Optimizes filling operations in difficult conditions
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Active Fill Control increases efficiency
Active Fill Control makes harvesting at night easier
Additional lights improve visibility to the transport vehicle
A relaxed operator using Active Fill Control
Improves harvest efficiency
Active Fill Control increases efficiency
John Deere Active Fill Control is the next step for higher productivity and efficiency during forage harvest. For operators it is impossible to monitor the spout position every second while operating a self-propelled forage harvester (SPFH). Field conditions can vary including hilly terrain, wet soil and soft ground, down crop, obstacles, etc. Also, SPFH operators are challenged with a significant amount of communication and coordination. All this constantly requires the operator to multitask and react quickly to changing conditions. If the spout is improperly aimed for only a few seconds the result can be hundreds of kilos of lost forage.
The operator can experience all the benefits of an automated filling system, including spout steering, flap automation, and fill strategy execution. The camera automatically detects trailers and the current fill level once alongside the forage harvester, ensuring consistent filling of trailers and allowing the operator to fully focus on machine behavior and optimization in order to maintain peak performance at all times.
Harvest day and night
Active Fill Control makes harvesting at night easier
Additional lights improve visibility to the transport vehicle
Working days during harvest are long and often go through the night.
Active Fill Control includes an additional light-emitting diode (LED) spout light package that ensures a steady fill, even in darkness. The design has also been optimized to ensure functionality under varying light, dust, shading or rain conditions.
Reduces operator stress and fatigue
A relaxed operator using Active Fill Control
John Deere Active Fill Control improves operator comfort and reduces operator fatigue in the field. Active Fill Control automatically detects the trailer next to the forage harvester and automatically begins filling with a preselected fill strategy. The operator can focus more on machine behavior and optimization and worry less about the spout and flap steering. After headland turns, the spout will automatically return to the last filling position. The fill status of the trailer can be monitored via video overlay on a separate display, like the GreenStar™ 3 (GS3) 2630 Display causing less tension on operators neck and back. Utilizing these capabilities forage harvesting gets much more convenient, especially during long working hours and for less experienced operators.
Active Fill Control also greatly reduces number of times an operator needs to adjust the spout. During typical operating conditions an operator will adjust the spout, on average, once every 4 seconds. Throughout a normal day this could amount to more than 6000 button presses on the hydro handle. Active Fill Control can eliminate a vast majority of these presses.
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