For operations where feeding accuracy, energy efficiency, labour optimisation, and production consistency are managed as a unified commercial priority.
Feeding is the most energy-intensive, time-critical, and consequential daily task in livestock management. Both ARANOM modles eliminates the labour, risk of ingrediant and ratio errors and expensive waste from splillage, the complexity of multiple machines, and energy costs that conventional feeding demands. Battery-powered and self-navigating via floor-embedded reference magnets, both ARANOM models consolidate multiple functions into one autonomous machine. The optional FEED KITCHEN delivers total precision control over ration content, quantity, and timing. Up to 60% energy savings over tractor-based mixing. This feeding system is particularly well-suited to large farm operations where nutritional accuracy is a must. The ARANOM can also be filled manually with front end loader and be activated for dispatch to feed out as required.
Feeding livestock to maximise production is the most demanding, most consequential, and most resource-intensive task in any livestock operation. It requires accuracy in ration formulation, consistency in delivery timing, precision in quantity control, and a labour and energy investment that conventional tractor-based systems extract from the operation every single day. The ARANOM redefines what automated feeding can deliver, combining self-driving robotic technology, integrated processing functions, and optional FEED KITCHEN precision control into a single system that reduces operating cost, eliminates human error, and maintains the nutritional consistency that animal performance demands.
Autonomous Navigation Without Infrastructure Compromise
Both ARANOM models are battery-powered and navigate barn feeding routes without a tractor, without a rail system, and without the barn infrastructure modification that rail-guided alternatives require. Navigation is achieved through small reference magnets embedded just below the floor surface, a minimal installation requirement that leaves the barn floor clear, allows route reprogramming as operational needs change, and eliminates the maintenance demands and single-point failure risks of overhead or floor-mounted rail systems. The self-driving capability means that once the feeding route and ration programme are configured, the ARANOM executes the feeding cycle without operator presence, freeing farm labour for the tasks that require human judgment while the machine handles the tasks that require precision and consistency.
Energy Economics: Up to 60% Saving
The shift from tractor-based feed mixing to electrically driven autonomous operation delivers energy cost savings of up to 60%m a reduction that compounds across every feeding cycle of the system’s operational life. For large farm operations executing multiple feeding cycles daily across large herds, the cumulative energy cost differential between conventional tractor operation and ARANOM electric drive represents a significant and sustained reduction in the operational cost base of the feeding programme. The energy saving is not a marginal efficiency gain, it is a structural cost reduction built into the system’s operating model.
FEED KITCHEN: Total Precision Control
The optional FEED KITCHEN transforms the ARANOM from an autonomous feed delivery system into a fully integrated precision feeding platform. Through a user-friendly interface, the FEED KITCHEN allows ration content, ingredient quantities, and feeding timing to be programmed and controlled to the kilogram, eliminating the measurement variability, ingredient ratio errors, and spillage waste that manual ration preparation generates. Feed containers are loaded by wheel loader, a straightforward task manageable by any farm employee, without specialist knowledge or equipment. The controlled filling process removes the risk of ingredient errors that compound silently into nutritional inconsistency and the associated production and health costs it creates. Waste from spillage during manual handling is eliminated. The ration that the nutritionist specifies is the ration that the animal receives, precisely, consistently, and without the human error that conventional mixing introduces between the formulation and the feed face.
ARANOM-Mix: Vertical Mixing for Short-Cut Feed
The ARANOM-Mix is equipped with a vertical mixing system featuring a double 4mm stainless steel mixer tray, optimised for short-cut feed materials. It consolidates four core functions of weighing, mixing, feeding, and feed push-up into a single autonomous machine, eliminating the multiple pieces of equipment that conventional short-cut ration preparation requires. The stainless steel construction provides durability and corrosion resistance in the chemically aggressive barn environment, while the vertical mixing geometry delivers the ration homogeneity that consistent nutritional delivery demands.
ARANOM-Cut & Mix: Five Functions for Long-Material Feed
The ARANOM-Cut & Mix extends the system’s capability to longer feed materials including loader silage, round bale silage, and hay, through a horizontal cutting and mixing system. The double-lined stainless steel mixing bowl with replaceable 8mm wear components provides the cutting capacity these materials require while protecting the bowl structure from the accelerated wear that abrasive long-material feed generates. Five functions including weighing, cutting, mixing, dosing, and feed push-up are consolidated into one machine, replacing what would otherwise require multiple conventional pieces of equipment, multiple operators, and significantly more time and energy to execute. The replaceable wear component design is operationally significant as it allows the cutting system to be maintained at peak performance through component replacement rather than bowl replacement, protecting the capital investment and extending the productive service life of the machine.
Operational Flexibility
Both ARANOM models retain manual front-end loader fill capability, allowing the machine to be loaded and dispatched for feed-out independently of the FEED KITCHEN system when operational circumstances require it. This flexibility ensures that the ARANOM continues to deliver value across the full range of operational scenarios, from fully automated FEED KITCHEN-integrated precision feeding to straightforward manually loaded feed delivery without requiring separate equipment for different feeding situations.
The Large Farm Advantage
The ARANOM system is particularly well-suited to large farm operations where the scale of daily feeding demand magnifies every efficiency gain the system delivers. Energy savings compound across higher daily cycle volumes. Labour freed from feeding tasks represents a more significant operational resource at large scale. Nutritional consistency across larger herds generates greater aggregate production gain. And the elimination of tractor hours from the feeding programme reduces machinery maintenance cost and operational complexity in proportion to the scale at which that machinery would otherwise be deployed. For operations where feeding accuracy, energy efficiency, labour optimisation, and production consistency are managed as a unified commercial priority, which defines every serious large-scale livestock enterprise, the HETWIN ARANOM is the feeding system those priorities are built on.
