The words ‘CEMOS Automatic’ herald the first combine that adjusts itself to the crop and the conditions. Here’s the lowdown on how that’s achieved, plus a first impression of what else the new generation of Claas combines has up its sleeve
IIt’s one thing to drive a combine, another to set it up for max throughput and minimal losses. Along with other makers, Claas has already taken steps to let automation shoulder some of that load: particularly with CEMOS, short for the Claas Electronic Machine Optimising System.
CEMOS Automatic takes over in the new 700-series Lexions. In this context, ‘automatic’ means the system offers performance- improving settings to the operator — which he can accept, or not — and then makes those changes if required. The notion is that the separation and cleaning systems are kept in constant tune as conditions alter through the day.
Along with Claas’s CruisePilot forward speed control and GPS-Pilot steering, CEMOS Automatic moves the harvester ever-closer to autonomous operation. But how well does it actually work? We headed off to a crop of wheat to find out.
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