Browsing by Subject "työtehokkuus"
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(2023)The overarching theme of the diploma thesis is the increasing digitalization of farms and the growing importance of technological innovations for the improvement of resource efficiency. The purpose of the study was to analyze and envision 4dBarn Ltd’s Boosted Service, a service that focuses on measuring and improving labor efficiency in robotic milking facilities, from both a customer experience and a business perspective. An adapted survey and thematic interviews were used to gather customer experiences from ten customers who had purchased the Boosted Service. The interviews showed that customers were satisfied with the current Boosted Service and generally found the Service’s existing metrics, such as using time-lapse cameras to track cows’ time budgets and monitoring work routines, useful. The KJ Method was used to elucidate the company’s perspective and implemented during a workshop with the company’s founding members to explore their goals for the Boosted Service. According to the results of the KJ Method, the current Boosted Service was found to be labor-intensive and difficult to expand internationally. The short measurement period was seen as problematic for the reliability of the results. In summary, the Boosted service is an integral part of the company's core business, and the information it provides is used to develop other services offered by the company. Among the various visions for the future, mobile application versions were of particular interest to respondents. However, respondents emphasized the need to invest in usability to ensure system usage. Despite significant technological advances in agriculture, respondents were not ready to completely abandon physical farm visits.
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(2023)Land consolidation aims to increase profitability of agriculture by improving fragmented landholdings. As a rule, the arrangements must be profitable which means that the evaluation tools for profitability must be based on up-to-date knowledge about farming methods and costs. Based on Juhana Hiironen's doctoral dissertation published in 2012, the method uses harm coefficients based on work efficiency measurements that have been created decades ago. This study examined whether those factors describe modern farming. The study defined how machine labor costs change as the area of the field increases. The material was collected from three contractors using the Valtra Connect -service. The data was saved from Suonentieto Ltd.’s AgriSmart web page, which was used to compile field-parcel-specific fuel consumption and duration of work into table format. The types of work were spraying, mowing, and ploughing. Work data was combined in Excel with field parcel data from the field parcel register maintained by the Finnish Food Authority. A regression curve with R-program was adapted to the combined data using a second order logarithmized polynomial function to describe the relationship between parcel size and work efficiency. As a result, it was found that the currently used coefficients seem to underestimate the benefits of increasing block size, especially in larger, higher than 5 ha parcels. The work efficiency was better than in the previous studies, which is probably due to the increase in the average size and work efficiency of the machines. For smaller parcels, efficiency remained unchanged, thus it was weaker relative to large fields. Increasing parcel sizes through land consolidation and land exchange is one of the key measures to increase profitability. The study was conducted as part of Luke's KIVAPELTO project.
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