THE BUTTERFLY AT THE FEED BUNK

In his book, The Essence of Chaos, Edward Lorenz described the butterfly effect as, "The phenomenon that a small alteration in the state of a dynamic system will cause subsequent states to differ greatly from the states that would have followed without the alteration." That's a mouthful. In more simple terms, the theory is that a butterfly in India could flap its wings and start a chain of events that could cause a tornado in Iowa. The parallel in robotic milking is, everything that happens at the feed bunk has potential to change how cows move in the barn.

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