Features
Pinnacle offers the complete software solution to animal weighing and management, whatever your level of automation. It is designed for use both in the field and in the office, to make your job as simple and quick as possible.
Pinnacle lets you to focus on your livestock, not the computer.
Pinnacle in the field
In the field, Pinnacle works with the Tru-Test XR3000 Weighing Indicator which sends the weight of each animal to Pinnacle on your PC. Then Pinnacle gives you all the information you need to make your animal-by-animal management decisions:
- can identify an animal using EID from an Electronic Identification Reader
- shows the live weight from the scales
- automatically records the live weight.
- calculates the weight gain, carcass weight, dosage, or similar values
- calculates ongoing statistics per session, such as the average weight
- shows if an animal is within a treatment period
- identifies animals that you have flagged for special attention
- shows historical information about each animal.
- can draft each animal according to complex criteria
- can show pre-entered information for each animal
- can be fully integrated with your auto-drafter/sorter
- can store an almost unlimited number of records
Pinnacle in the office
Before and after each weighing session, Pinnacle offers a complete livestock management system that enables you to view your animal data in many different ways:
- sort and group your animals according to your own preferences
- print reports
- calculate many different types of statistics
- create customized screens to view your data
- show graphs and summaries of information
- import and export data to or from other software applications
- automatically identify groups of animals that meet certain criteria
- identify trends in measured data, such as increasing lameness
- identify correlations over time, such as the effect of different types of feed supplements with weights
- identify unexpected correlations, such as weight gain versus herd size
Pinnacle delivers
- large, clear fonts
- current status always shown on a large message bar
- large "weight stable" and "weight recorded" messages
- configure the weigh screen to show only the information YOU want
- see and do almost everything from the weighing screen
- automatically moves to next field you need to enter
- fast data entry with minimum keystrokes
- automatically enters data that often repeats
- can validate your data input for mistakes
- a single key press to mark an animal for later attention
- a single key press to enter option data
- enter data without looking at the screen by using the function keys
- bright colors to indicate message importance, duplicate IDs, and so on
- no mouse usage during weighing
- messages can be ignored during weighing and logged in the session file for later attention
- after-weighing repair of wrongly entered data or other incidents
- same information types are grouped to eliminate visual clutter.
- never interrupts with pop-up messages
- never forces you to answer questions
- changing the settings at any time is quick and intuitive
- intuitive design makes the software work how you expect it to work
- can be totally customized to meet your own management methods and new ways of doing things
- you manage the software, the software doesn't manage you
Pinnacle. The top solution for animal weighing and management systems from Tru-Test.
