Monday, February 20, 2012

Mascus Expands Its Cooperation with John Deere

Mascus, renowned for being among the fastest developing websites in the world, as far as the used heavy machinery and equipment are concerned, has recently announced that they are going to integrate the company’s data with John Deere’s Used Xpress system.

The whole Mascus team is thrilled with the opportunity to be able to cooperate closely with such iconic American brand as John Deere. The integration of data from the Used Xpress directly to Mascus.com will allow John Deere to automatically upload their used farm machinery do Mascus.com and as a consequence address the international clientele. The above mentioned strategy will also enable John Deere dealers to present the used equipment for sale in 39 languages and 180 currencies that Mascus has operated in so far. That will surely let John Deere to outrun the domestic competition in North America.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

John Deere Implements the Harvest Identification

In order to help cotton growers capture, store and retrieve information about their crop for use by the gin, John Deere has implemented the Harvest Identification. The system gets rid of the manual module – tagging method, provides easy - to – retrieve and store documentation and improves the way of tracking and delivery of the modules to the gin.
Harvest Identification has already been used with the John Deere 7760 Self-Propelled Cotton Picker, equipped with a Green StarTM 2 2600 or GreenStar TM 3 2630 Display and RFID tags embedded in the round module wrap. The system documents module information relevant to the ginning process, including the client, farm, field, module serial number, harvest date and time: all collected in a one document. Cotton, the implemented system, reads the RFID serial numbers that are embedded in the module wrap and then transfers the information to the Application Controller 1120. The device collects the information and at the same time displays the module count and the serial number, storing the information simultaneously as a .txt file within the File Server on the display. Has the information been collected, it can be pulled off the display via data card or USB drive and then sent to the cotton gin.
The above solution gives the growers the ability to harvest cotton uninterrupted, without the necessity to tag modules manually. Growers who have tried the system so far say that it helps them to save time and simplifies the record keeping and tracking of modules.