What's in Store for Feed Milling Equipment of the Future?

全球供应链问题，增加了可持续性承诺和设备维护的进步所有颜色美国饲料行业的景观，如斯科特安德森，总销售经理告诉，CPM。

This喂养& Grain Chat探索饲料设备最终用户的地平线可能在地平线上。

Elise Schafer，饲料和谷物编辑：Hi everyone. Welcome to喂养& Grain Chat.I'm your host Elise Schafer, editor of喂养& Grain杂志。

This edition of喂养& Grain Chatis brought to you by WATT global media and Feedandgrain.com. Feedandgrain.com is your source for the latest news, product and equipment information in the grain handling and feed manufacturing industries.

Today we are joined on Zoom by Scott Anderson, General Sales Manager forCalifornia Pellet Mill (CPM)。Scott is here today to discuss innovations in feed manufacturing as it relates to the feed mill of the future.

Hi, Scott. How are you?

California Pellet Mill（CPM）的普通销售经理Scott Anderson：嗨，elise。我很好。感谢您的款待。

Schafer：谢谢你来了。好吧，让我们走进去。

Scott, the feed industry is just over 200 years old, and its seen several periods of accelerated growth over the years. What do you think is the greatest challenge it's facing today?

安德森：I think it's safe to say that the biggest challenge that we'll be dealing with for certainly the immediate future will revolve around logistics.

饲料成分的供应链是全球性的，正如我们所知道的那样。当然，有关于饲料交付的问题。我们都了解招聘和维护合格的司机甚至让零件以保持设备的问题以及跑步的问题将继续是一项挑战，我们需要计划的挑战。

Schafer：绝对地。When we think of innovation in feed manufacturing equipment over the years, we might think of increasing capacities, increasing speeds and automation. What innovations in pellet milling or conditioning do you expect to see embraced in the next 10 years?

安德森：因此，设备制造商受到客户的挑战，以提高自动化，使其更容易维护设备并预测设备上的维护问题。

So that's where I think most of the equipment manufacturers will be focused — on equipment that is able to control itself, recognize the need to make adjustments and make the adjustments automatically to maintain a consistent product.

And then the ability to let the operators and management know when it will need attention and potentially even notify the home office of certain parts that might be required, maybe even schedule that maintenance. So I think the areas around automation and predictive maintenance will be the areas where we'll see the biggest change in the next 10 years.

Schafer：Now, what about the role of nutritionists and feed formulations? Do you see sensors or analytics such as NIR changing that role?

安德森：我不认为角色本身改变，但德国这样的新技术将开辟一些新的机会 - 当然是新的成分 - 就像你想要的蛋白质含量或你想要的脂肪内容的能力一样？您的批处理系统可能能够读取和自动调整以维持营养师正在呼唤的精确配方的成分。

和整个新的成分世界都在那里。当然，你知道，例如，我们听到了很多关于昆虫蛋白质的。所以它会看到那个地区发生的事情会很有趣。

Schafer：What role does sustainability play in the production of feed manufacturing equipment?

安德森：So besides being a sound business practice, we're being challenged by both the supply chain as well as our own employees to define and quantify our sustainability efforts. Consumers are increasingly making buying decisions based on the perceived corporate citizenship of the companies that they're purchasing from and that's being driven all the way up through the supply chain.

So, you know, we might think that we're remote as an equipment manufacturer from the consumer, you know, in the grocery store, or, you know, at the fast-food restaurant, but those companies are qualifying their vendors more and more based on sustainability scorecards, so it's something that we have to keep in mind.

We also recognize that our current and prospective employees care about sustainability and want to know that they're going to work for a responsible company. So I think that sustainability will become front of mind more and more for all companies.

Schafer：绝对地。最后，您是否乐观或悲观地了解饲料行业的未来，斯科特？

安德森：我将永远乐观饲料行业的前景，动物蛋白质将继续成为我们饮食的关键部分。我相信人口增长和越来越多的生活水平将继续推动可预见的未来对动物蛋白质的需求。

Schafer：非常感谢您今天分享您的时间以及您对未来饲料厂的见解。现在，如果您将在下周为IPPE的亚特兰大，并且在1月25日免费提供，请考虑加入美国饲料战略会议。这里。斯科特将从饲料行业加入我和其他专家，了解我们的结账面板讨论：想象未来的饲料磨坊。

您可以找到有关此半天会议的更多信息feedstringgy.com/feed-strategy-events.。非常感谢你，斯科特，并且感谢你们所有人的调整！

—Elise Schafer