Dairy farms use various technological lines for primary milk processing. The task is to identify the most rational line that does not require manual labour. Dairy production belongs to the food industries with their pronounced specifics: non-stationary quality indicators of raw materials, biological activity of raw materials (perishable) and processed products, strict sanitary and hygienic standards of production, seasonality of loads, etc. An analysis of the various stages of dairy production shows that ensuring the required quality of finished products and their release in the required range are difficult and often fail. This problem can be solved if we create flexible technological schemes for the production of products, which would take into account the changing indicators of the quality of raw materials, and express methods for determining the latter. One of the reasons for the decrease in the efficiency of using milking machines is a violation of their vacuum mode. The degree of tension of the drive belts also affects the decrease in pump performance. Weak tension leads to slipping in the pulleys and, as a consequence, to wear and loss of pump performance. The article describes a study of increasing the efficiency of using milking machines, and evaluates this efficiency.

Kokieva Galia E.

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