By Fikri Radiyan
Many people who are just starting to jump into the agriculture business don't really put much attention on the cleanliness factor of the entire equipment and infrastructure they are using. Most of them only care about the financial situation of their business and seems like to ignore anything else as long as they keep making profit. In this article, I will show you why it is important to clean all the equipment and infrastructure that you're going to use. Next, some rental advantages for cleaning equipment will be explained. Finally, the possibility of using infrared thermal imaging will be briefly introduced. After you've gained some information from this short article, you are expected to put more emphasis on how to correctly clean your agriculture equipment and infrastructure.
First, let's discuss why it's very important to wash your agricultural industry tools frequently. Grain dust is the dust produced during harvesting, drying, handling, storage or processing of cereal crops and it is one of the main reasons for this. You need to clean it periodically because not only it can cause asthma if inhaled but it is also highly explosive and considered fire hazard. The other reason is because equipment such as combine harvester requires a steady maintenance to operate properly. When you clean heavy equipment like a combine, your cleaning process should include all of its basic parts like the cab, gauges, control panel, seat and windows. You should also try to protect the paint and inhibit rust of all your equipment which coated with metal material. You can do this by applying polymer wax on a regular basis.
Next, let's talk about several advantages of renting over owning agricultural equipment. The obvious reason is you can gain financial benefits by renting equipment especially in uncertain economic times which happen quite often lately. The renting cost is definitely much lower than the cost of buying them and you also won't have to worry when you no longer need them. In fact because of its low cost, more often than not the actual renting cost can be considered as a day-to-day maintenance expenses. Since you spend a few amount of money for renting purposes, you can now focus more on training your own staff at the factory to improve their productivity and to educate them on how to operate new machinery. By doing this, you also eliminate the need to hire expert crews for handling delicate equipment.
Finally, let's consider about the possibility of using infrared thermal imaging to maintain the condition of your infrastructure such as tanks and silos. Instrumentation which usually used for locating levels in tanks and silos is often unreliable. You can't really tell whether any waste materials have been properly cleaned or not. That's why by using infrared thermal imaging you can detect the presence of certain materials, because all materials whether they're solids, liquids, or gases have different thermal characteristics. This tool will also provide and verify information about the condition inside the silo, which in turn can be used to make the right decision on how to properly clean and maintain the silo infrastructure.
Maintaining agricultural equipment and infrastructure is no easy task to accomplish. Sometimes it can be quite expensive, and that's the reason why you don't necessarily need to own any equipment if you have the option to rent it. Using infrared thermal imaging can be very effective if you have tanks and/or silos to maintain. With this infrared tool you can have information about their condition and determine a correct method to properly maintain and clean them.
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