Wasserbauer in Australia: Greenline designed and backed by DOM

Wasserbauer automated feeding equipment is supplied, installed and serviced in Australia by Greenline, a DOM Distribution brand based at Dalby, Queensland. Wasserbauer manufactures the Shuttle Eco feeding robot in Waldneukirchen, Austria. Greenline designs the system around it and provides Australian commissioning, parts and support.

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Greenline is automated livestock feeding: accurate batching, consistent delivery, and less labour. Ration accuracy is a delivery problem at least as much as it is a mixing problem, because you can batch to the nutritionist's sheet and still lose the benefit between the mixer and the bunk. What reaches the animal depends on who is driving, how the morning ran, and whether the last pen gets the same attention as the first. Automated feeding takes that variation out, so every batch is weighed to the ration you specified, delivered to a set schedule and recorded.

Feeding little and often supports steadier intake, gives cattle less reason to sort, and leaves less material sitting in a hot bunk between runs. Feeding also takes fewer people and fewer hours, and on most operations that is the number that pays for the system. Less labour and less feed waste are where the cost saving comes from, and how much it comes to depends on the operation.

The system is Greenline. The robots are Wasserbauer.

Wasserbauer has built automated feeding equipment at Waldneukirchen in Austria since 1986 and sells into more than 50 countries, and the Shuttle Eco is its feeding robot. The equipment is proven across European dairies and fattening sheds. What it had never had was a system built around Australian conditions: our commodity bays, our pen layouts, our dust, our distances, and a parts shelf in the same time zone.

Greenline is the system built around that equipment, developed by DOM Distribution with leading intensive livestock operations to bring the automation essentials together under one banner. A robot on its own only solves the last step. If roughage is still handled by hand every morning and batching still waits on someone turning up, you have automated one part of the problem and left the rest running on labour. Greenline covers the five modules instead: receive, store, process, batch and deliver. Start with the module carrying your biggest cost and add the rest as the yard justifies it.

How the feed reaches the bunk.

The Shuttle Eco collects components from commodity storage, cuts and mixes them in a freefall container that does not mash the ration, then doses by weight against distance travelled as it drives the alley. Routing is by magnets set into the floor, so the path is programmed once and the machine holds it.

Shuttle Eco specifications. Source: Wasserbauer.

Feeding robot	Greenline Shuttle Eco
Mixing container	2.2 m³, freefall mixer
Feeding window	24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Dosing	Weighed and distance based, by performance group
Routing	Magnets set into the floor, programmed once
Maximum gradient	10%
Power	Lithium ion, automatic charging station between runs
Multiple robots	Dispatcher software splits the jobs, 20% efficiency gain
Feed storage	From 8 m³, refilled from every day to as long as you need
Manufactured	Waldneukirchen, Austria, since 1986
Supplied and supported	Greenline, DOM Distribution, Dalby QLD

Sizing and site requirements.

One Shuttle Eco is rated to 600 head on fattening rations. Anything larger runs more than one unit, and dispatcher software divides the jobs between them so no unit sits idle and the charging load spreads. That is what sits behind the series sizing. The Shuttle Eco is a main ingredient in Greenline Advantage systems, the modular kits scaled from under 1,000 head with the Advantage Mini up to 6,000 plus with the Pro Dual, and it can play a role in an Apex build, which is where operations of 10,000 head and above start.

The constraints are worth knowing early, because they shape the civil work rather than the machine. Routing needs a defined running surface and a gradient inside 10%. Most systems' commodity storage holds three to four days of ingredients, so filling becomes a twice-weekly job instead of a daily one. It sizes off your ration and your bulk storage. Most of this retrofits into commodity bays and bunk lines you have already built. Have a look at how it is configured for feedlots, dairy and paddock fed, or at the systems working in Queensland now.

Backed from Dalby.

Who supports the system is the question that decides most automation purchases. Every Greenline system is designed, installed, commissioned and supported out of Dalby on the Darling Downs by our team, and parts are held in Australia rather than shipped from Europe on demand. Wasserbauer sits alongside Patz, Haybuster, Rovibec and Cormall in the system, which you can see broken down on the partners page. Pete Garrett, who runs a Greenline system, made the same point:

"The most critical thing is, do you have a dealer in Australia? And she's like, 'Oh, we've got DOM.' And I'm like, well, that just couldn't be any easier. DOM's just down the road."