The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has nationally adopted with deviations four international standards concerning milking machines.


• ANSI/ASABE AD3918:2007, Milking machine installations – Vocabulary

• ANSI/ASABE AD6690:2007, Milking machine installations – Mechanical tests

• ANSI/ASABE AD5707:2007, Milking machine installations – Construction and performance

• ANSI/ASABE AD20966:2007, Automatic milking installations – Requirements and testing

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The four ISO documents replace three ASABE standards, ANSI/ASAE S300.4, Milking machine installations – Vocabulary (AD3918), ASAE EP 445.1, Test Equipment and Its Application for Measuring Milking Machine Operating Characteristics (AD6690), and ASAE S518.2, Milking Machine Installations – Construction and Performance (AD5707).

Content of the adopted ISO standards was based substantially on ASABE documents and input from ASABE experts. The adoptions further harmonize national and international standardization, a goal that facilitates manufacturing, safety advancements and product marketing worldwide, while the deviations recognize those areas in which U.S. practices differ from those described by ISO.

A copy of the documents can be ordered by contacting ASABE headquarters directly at martin@asabe.org. ASABE members and those with site-license privileges to the ASABE online Technical Library, at www.asabe.org, can view electronic copies of the standards in about four weeks. PD

—From ASABE news release