Enterprise Architecture for ArchiFarm Industry in Australia

This Enterprise Architecture study focuses on the ArchiFarm industry in Australia that operates dairy farming. It covers the stakeholders, business functions, processes, information architecture, application usage, cooperation, and data dissemination of the industry.

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Task 2.1: Stakeholders and Drivers
The given case study is about the ArchiFarm industry that operates dairy farming in
the environment of Australia. These is among the arrest diary producers with three production
site. Each site includes an office building, the shed where the animals are being housed, fed
and milked and various storage sections and facilities who look after the farm. With the
growing price pressure by the distributors and the retailers the industry is facing major
problems. These is resulting into less production cost with improvement in the efficiency.
The aim is to improve the production, so that profits can be marked significantly. The main
stakeholders of these industry are the:
Site manager: Site manager is responsible for controlling the operations taking place within
the site.

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Contractors: Contractors are being assigned by the farm to maintain the working.
Employees and farm workers: The main staff that helps in successful working of the site. The
results that are being analyzed with the help of custom built report software tool are used to
assess the health of the animals within the firms by the veterinarians.
Distributors: number of distributors that are associated with this farms and are responsible
for collecting the milk from the farm and transports these to the wholesalers. These schedule
of working is being pre-defined within the contracts maintained by the ArchiFarm and they
are liable to pay compensation in case of the milk fails to pass the quality test.
Local animal feed producers: ArchiFarm has signed agreements with several local animal
feed producers, so that they can provide animal feed to each production site.
Health of each animal is being assessed with the help of manual inspection and
problems are being discovered only when the animal is being detected with a major weight
loss or being analysed with less productivity. The health records of each animal is being
maintained, so that the staffs of the farm can easily identify the health issue. Thee health
record is in a form of informal document that is stored in each production site, in case of any
problem is being detected drugs are being added with the feed. These helps in recovering the
health of the cow. This is basically done with the help of control screen attached with the
feeding station at every production site. The main drivers of the system are Operations,
Maintenance, Analysis, Schedule and Signing. The processes in the system would be aimed
towards the mitigation and implementation of these concepts within the system. In addition to
this, system would be performing the assessments for the single aim of livestock
management.

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Task 2.2: Business Functions
The business function of the ArchiFarm industry that is related to the livestock
management is having different processes, this includes:
 Organizing the livestock management
 Setting up the production of the livestock
 Execution and the operative livestock planning
The ArchiFarm industry has invested a huge amount on automating the technology at the
main production site. These includes automatic feeding station that helps in setting the
feeding quality of each animal and also have robotic milking stations that helps in tracking
the yield of each animal and can control the timing of milking by each cow. These feeding
system is being operated in the main site only and in the smaller sites the feeding is being
done by the farm workers with the help of tractors. There is an information system
maintained that helps in controlling the milk stations and will analyze the feeding quantity set
by the staffs with the use of reporting software tool. This is also used to assess the health of
the animals within the farm as the health issues are becoming one of the biggest concern. The
farm has distributors that are responsible for delivering the milk to the wholesaler within the
given time. In case the far fails to pass the quality test for their produced milk is liable to
compensation. In order to maintain the quality produced by the cows, the milk produced by
the infected cows are kept separated from the product produced by the healthy cows. These
helps in reducing the contamination. Hence, the process of the administration, production,

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Operations procurement and Performance management are inter related with each other for
the system.
Task 2.3: Business Processes
The business process involved with managing the livestock of these farms is with the
learning of the PLF technologies. PLF technology is used for monitoring the health and aims
at implementing a data driven health monitoring system. These will be installed within every
production site. In order to control the PLF management in a better way the company is
planning to adopt sensors that will be attached with the cow’s ear. The company also aims at
applying data mining and predictive analytics algorithm that will help in determining the
potential problems before these turns to a serious illness. PLF system helps the farming sector
to overcome the challenges related to the increasing production, promoting the animal
welfare and sustainability and the alleviating farmer’s workload and ensure the economic
viability of the farm operations. These includes:
 Helps the farmer in increasing the livestock production and the quality of the product
produced in a sustainable environment.
 PL system offers tailored care towards the animals in the terms of milking, feeding
and housing.
 Helps the farmers to perform the task easily.

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 Helps in monitoring the health condition of the cows
 PL system will also help in determining the production rate.
Example of the PLF system that are included in the farms are:
 Precise feeding system: this allows the farmer to feed the cows with accuracy and
precisely.
 Precise milking robot: this includes automatic milking machines and are used to
determine 65 cows on an average of 2.7 times per day.
 Stable farm management system: several PLF monitoring system are there which uses
microphones and cameras which acts as the ears and the eyes of the farmers.
 The identification of the risks and errors that occurs in the system and the mitigations
are automated so that the system is free from errors.
Task 2.4: Information Architecture
The information architecture related to this farm helps to maintain all the data and
also helps in controlling the milking stations and analyzes the working with the use of
reporting software tool. These tools help in assessing and adjusting the feeding quantities for
every animals and also helps in organizing the health of the animals with the help of
veterinarians. The information related to the health issues are recorded and remedial actions
are being stored in a file system for each animal. The health records maintained are informal

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text documents and are basically stored within the file system hosted on the server off each
production site. In case the information architecture finds any problem with the health of the
cows, drugs are being added with the feed quantity so that they can cure quickly. This is
being achieved with the help of a control screen attached in the feeding control session at
every production site. The ArchiFarm believes that implementation of PLF technology within
the farm will help in detecting the health issues in the early stage and will help to prevent the
health issues from the earlier stage and will also help to reduce the chances of products
getting contaminated. Information system helps in maintaining the records of farms and
contains all the records related to the health of the cows. This is very much necessary to
determine the health condition of the cows, so that it can deliver a healthy production. The
information architecture also helps in determining the feeding process and can control
production.
Task 2.5: Application Usage

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The application and the software’s used in managing the livestock of this ArchiFarm are as
follows:
Automation technology: these automation technology is being implemented within the main
production site. This technology includes automatic feeding station that helps in dispensing
the quality of the feeding given to each cow.
Automated Robot: automated robot are being installed at the main site to look after the
working and the productivity off the cows in the farm.
Automated milking system: the automated milking system is used to record the quantity of
the milk obtained from each cow in the farm. These helps to determine the productivity of the
cows.
Reporting software tool: these tool is being used to control the milking stations and produces
an analyses report. These analysis results are used by the worker of the farmer to determine
and adjust accordingly the quantity of the feed for every individual animals. These also helps
in determining the and assessing the health of the animals.
PLF technology: the PLF technology is being thought to implement within the farm that will
help in monitoring the health activity and also plans to have a data driven health monitoring.
IN addition to this the farm aims at adopting sensors that will be attached with the cow’s ears.
This will help to determine the health and will keep on reading the sensors produced by the
cow’s ears regarding the milk production.
The data storages used for the system are the animal data storage which would keep
the system updated with the animal health data and the livestock database that would keep the
updates of the system.

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Task 2.6: Application Cooperation
The automation technology contains several sections that includes automation feeding
station, robotic milking station and automated robots. The automation technology collects
data and the information related to each cow and then process the functions. The robotic
milking station is being used to track the yield of each animal and also can control the
milking time for each cow within the farm. These technology maintains a document that
helps in recording all the activities including the health and at which time the cow produced
the milk. Accordingly, the robotic milking station adjust the timing. Automation feeding
system is being used to determine the feeding quality of the animal and also maintains the
quantity of the feeding produced. The data gets collected and then is being processed to the
automated feeding technology. These helps to determine how much quantity is needed to be
feed to the cows. These step is very much essential for the farm.
The reporting software tool is being used to control the milking station and also helps
in producing the analyzed report. These helps in determine the quality of the feed given to the
animals. These works as the data related to the activity of the cows are being recorded within
a database and these databases are used to determine the health condition of the cows,
The PLF technology is used to monitor the health of the animals within the farm.
These also helps in determining the productivity of each cow. The activity of each animal is
going to be recorded with the help of the sensors attached within the ears of the animals.
These database helps in monitoring and analyzing the activity of the cow.

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Moreover, the company has thought of applying the data mining and predictive
analytics algorithm within the farm that will help to anticipate the potential problems before
occurring. Thus will prevent from getting spread over the farm.
Task 2.7: Data Dissemination
The information system stores the data and are controlled by these systems. The data
stored are being then processed to determine the feeding quantity. The data are being then
analyzed with the use of a custom-built reporting software tool. Further these results are
being used by the farm staff to adjust the quantity of the feeds given to the individual
animals. These also organizes the health of the animals and determines the health condition
by the veterinarians. The record related to the healt of each animal is being stored and are
being analyzed so that the staffs can easily determine health issues. These record will help to
determine the health of each animal and the file system hosted on the file server at each
production site will help in determining the health condition. The health records are
maintained as informal text document.

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