What is Equipment Used for?

Equipment can be used in a few different ways in Operations Center.  You can keep your equipment offsets in the equipment and implement profiles to ensure your section control and other features work well.  You will need equipment and implements in order to create a setup file for a display.  If your equipment is JD Link connected, you can wirelessly send Prescriptions, Setup Files, and Work Plans to that piece of equipment in addition to being able to track the location of the machine.

Equipment types:

Machines: 

Machines will be your self propelled vehicles.  These will include the following:

• Combines
• Tractors
• Sprayers
• Choppers
• Side x Sides
• etc.

Implements:

Anything either pulled by a machine, or attached to a piece of equipment will be considered an implement.  Some examples:

• Planters
• Pull-behind fertilizer spreaders
• Sprayer booms
• Combine Headers
• etc.

Devices:

The devices will be precision ag software that is installed in/on a machine.  These include:

• StarFire Receivers
• John Deere Displays
• Telematics units (MTGs or Mobile Telematics Gateways)

Adding Equipment:

The top right corner has a menu with a yellow “+ Add” button.

Once selected, you can add your equipment by serial number, or bypass the serial number by checking the box next to “I do not have a serial number”  Then you can Name your tractor and search for the model number.

Based on what you enter in the Model box.  It will suggest the different models from all different makes that correspond with the data provided:

If you have a Modem (MTG) in your account.  You can also pair it now.

You can do the same for implements by switching to the implement tab.