Key Features
How we milk
Milking with the DeLaval VMS V300 is a highly automated, cow‑centred process designed to support productivity, animal welfare, and work efficiency. Using advanced sensors, robotics, and real‑time data, the system is designed to help ensure each cow is milked at an appropriate time, in a gentle and efficient way.
From automatic milking permission and precise teat preparation to Flow‑Responsive Milking and smart take‑off, the system is designed to adapt to the individual needs of each cow. Continuous monitoring and data driven insights support early health detection and consistent milk quality.
The result is a milking routine that benefits both cows and farmers, every day.
Automatically adapting to your herd profile, production targets and individual cows, your VMS is tailored to milk every cow at the right moment – helping you to optimise milk production, herd health, and operational efficiency.
A cow with milking permission is recognised and given access to the VMS via her RFID tag and the InControl app. The internal space of the VMS adjusts to her specific shape and size for comfort, and the correct feed mix is dispensed in the manger.
Guided by InSight and historical teat‑mapping data, the VMS attaches the PureFlow cup: cleaning, drying, and preparing each teat individually. Pre‑milk and wash water are kept separate, and the PureFlow cup is flushed and dried before the next milking.
InSight scans and maps the udder in adaptive real-time, allowing fast and accurate attachment, even if the cow moves slightly.
By keeping the teat-end vacuum stable for every quarter from start to finish, Flow-Responsive™ Milking is designed to milk every cow faster, gentler and more complete – helping to ensure every cow is milking to her full economic potential, without compromising her health.
Four ICAR-approved milk meters monitor performance and udder health, and Mastitis Detection Index (MDI) identifies cows showing signs that may require early intervention. These and other advanced sensors work with DeLaval Plus to provide accurate, actionable insights.
Precise data from the milk meter during milking enables quarter specific cup removal as soon as the flow drops below the set threshold, designed to support healthier teat ends and smoother routines. Smart take-off can additionally remove the last slow milking cup to boost efficiency.
InSight’s accuracy enables a 99%* teat spray hit rate while keeping consumption impressively low. To support superior udder health and equipment reliability, our VMS compatible teat spray products are designed for precision and efficiency.
After milking, the cow exits the VMS and returns to her group, or is automatically sorted to a different area based on management decisions and milk‑quality checks. On exit, the VMS automatically cleans the floor (if selected) and flushes and cleans the cups, ready for the next cow.
Turn your milking system into a reproduction management tool
RePro
The RePro BioSensor automatically takes progesterone levels from milk samples during regular milking, turning your VMS into a reproduction management tool in DeLaval Plus Reproduction Performance RePro. Designed to help you reduce vet costs and improve insemination rates and cow health.
- Automatic pregnancy check
- Detect abnormal reproduction cycles early
- Detect silent heats
- Notification of early abortions
- More productive lactations
- Improve productive life with fewer open cows and reduced culling
Upgrade your milk quality. With precision.
DeLaval BioSensors Milk Cell Analysis (MCA)
When superb milk quality and early mastitis detection are important to you. MCA is an ultra-precise real-time somatic cell count (SCC) sensor that integrates with DeLaval Plus – putting accurate, actionable information at your fingertips. MCA aids you in milk quality control, and udder health and disease risk management. You control the SCC tests your herd receives, from always on to scheduled or event triggered, and everything in between.
- Stronger mastitis detection, including early identification of subclinical cases that often go unnoticed.
- Improved milk-quality control, supported by precise, reliable SCC data.
- More informed udder-health decisions, powered by clear and actionable insights from every milking.
- Flexible SCC monitoring options – continuous, scheduled, or event-triggered – giving you complete control and total peace of mind.
Accurate feed planning = improved everything
Body Condition Scoring
Body Condition Scoring is an automated system for monitoring the body fat reserves of dairy cows using a precision time of flight (ToF) camera. The camera captures detailed 3D images of each cow, enabling consistent and objective body condition scoring.
- The system provides daily, accurate, and repeatable scoring, reducing reliance on visual assessment and manual evaluation.
- Helps improve herd health by identifying cows at an early stage that may be at risk of ketosis.
- Tracks body condition score trends throughout lactation to support reproduction, and feeding decisions.
Behaviour Analysis
By tracking rumination, eating time, activity, and behaviour through a smart ear tag, Behaviour Analysis helps you improve labour efficiency, performance, and overall cow health and welfare.
- Accurate heat detection and optimal insemination timing.
- Easy identification of sick or distressed cows.
- 24/7 animal localization for faster, safer handling.
Farm Your Way
Batch or voluntary, 24/7 or twice a day, pasture or barn; you decide. It’s your farm and only you know what works best for your conditions and your animals.
Simple, open design
Free traffic
If you have the labour to bring in the cows, a free traffic system is ideal for retrofitting and providing cows with more freedom. Our planning teams will support you in achieving robot performance goals by balancing robot throughput with PMR and offering guidance on the optimal layout for post-sort options.
Milk first or modified
Guided traffic
Reduce the effort of fetching cows with a guided traffic system. DeLaval’s advisory and planning teams will help you retrofit or design a new barn to optimise your VMS, whether it’s by installing gates to direct traffic to the VMS or providing feed and post-sort options.
Keep a conventional barn
VMS Batch Milking
The VMS Batch Milking system replaces manual milking with automation. It includes a sort pen, shared group pens, and positions the VMS machines in the centre, in a designated milking area. VMS ensures consistent milking, collects data, and can milk up to 8 cows per hour.
VMS and Performance Plan
Maximise your automated milking system with a Performance Plan form DeLaval
Advisory
Achieve your goals with advice and support.
Our advisors will help you with advice before, during and long after the installation of your DeLaval milk system. They provide support in further optimizing the performance of your installation. Together with you, they can ensure that the results of the milk system are tailored to your needs and circumstances.
DeLaval VMS™ Robotic milking system
The core of the VMS™ V300 robotic milking system series from DeLaval is all about delivering more. DeLaval VMS™ is designed to deliver better quality milk, healthier animals, and more freedom for you.
VMS, cow longevity and farm profitability
Happy cows live longer
When cows stay healthier for longer, farmers can benefit from stronger profitability – and the environment benefits too. To ensure cow longevity it is crucial to provide excellent care from birth and to minimise the risk of diseases and at the same time maintain a solid reproduction. The four focus areas to maintain a high productive lifetime are:
- Reproduction
- Udder health
- Hoof care
- Milk production performance
VMS™ V300 and cow longevity
The nature of voluntary milking means cows on VMS follow a more natural behaviour and are more relaxed. VMS additionally empowers farmers with the insights to act early and decisively on matters that impact animal health and welfare. The DeLaval VMS™ V300 provides:
- Gentle and consistent milking that protects udder health.
- Early detection of health and reproduction changes.
- Smart attachment capabilities that make it possible to continue milking cows automatically along the whole lactation.
- Stress-free and cow driven routines that support overall longevity.
New VMS™ V300 barn on Hamra Farm
Cow longevity is at the heart of what we do at DeLaval. That’s why, at Hamra Farm, we designed the new barn with one goal in mind: helping cows live long, productive lives in a protected, cow‑centric environment. The new barn has optimal ventilation, resting areas and walkways – all to create an environment where cows can thrive for years.
- OptiMat feeding system for high feed efficiency.
- Clean, healthy hooves thanks to DeLaval robot collectors.
- DeLaval cow cooling system to prevent heat stress and sustain production.
- Improved reproduction powered by advanced BioSensors and AI.
Part of the DeLaval ecosystem
From cooling, storing and transporting down to feeding and hygiene products, the VMS™ works together with all parts of the DeLaval ecosystem.
Dairy producer testimonials reflect their real-life experience using DeLaval products. Results in testimonials have not been independently verified and DeLaval does not claim the results are typical.
Actual performance and improvement will depend on a number of factors, including prior milking practices, type of cows, farm and herd maintenance practices. Nothing herein constitutes a warranty or guarantee of service of performance.