Elaboration of architecture of the enterprise of dairy animal breeding

Abstract

The actual task of dairy enterprises is to increase the efficiency of resource use, optimize business processes, reduce water and energy consumption, deploy a reliable traceability system that improves transparency, safety and product quality, providing detailed information about the product for the consumer. The specific task for dairy farms is monitoring the behavior of cows and their maintenance in order to improve their well-being and prevent morbidity. In turn, it will lead to better enterprise management, increasing of productivity and quality of production. It is possible to solve the set of tasks only with the help of digital technologies, which are vital for achieving the competitive advantage of dairy farms. It requires the elaboration of enterprise architecture for optimizing many disparate processes in an integrated environment, which will achieve the right balance between IT efficiency and business innovation. Enterprise architecture provides a strategic context for the development of IT systems in response to the ever-changing needs of the dairy industry environment. The research presents the “As Is” model of the architecture of typical dairy farms, developed using the ArchiMate language. As a result of its analysis, the discrepancy between business and IT requirements was found. An insufficiently high level of application of digital technologies was noted, allowing only to identify animals, but not giving the opportunity to determine their condition, to signal about its change and the need for urgent measures. The insufficient level of application of digital technologies does not provide support for decision-making by employees and managing specialists, and also does not allow to monitor in real time the parameters of the conditions of the animals, the quality of the products, the preparation of balanced feed and their individual dosing, automatic milking, storage, sorting and packaging products. The conducted studies are the basis for the creation of the standard architecture “To be” of dairy farms using modern digital technology and sensor systems for providing high quality and efficiency of production of dairy products.