Fendt Machine Control – your connection between the tractor and attachment.

Communication between the tractor and attachment is the only way for you to unleash your machinery's full potential. And it makes your work as effortless as it can be.

Electronic features are making farming machinery smarter. With ISOBUS, tractors and implements can communicate in the same language – making them safer, more precise and more efficient. With the right equipment, the hookup takes over certain functions completely automatically. This means less effort for the driver and increases productivity.

An ISOBUS system consists of various components, including the tractor, terminal and equipment. It all comes down to what the terminal and attachment are capable of doing. This in turn depends on which ISOBUS functionalities are available and activated in the individual components of the ISOBUS system. Only functionalities that are included in all the components involved can be shared. For example, if you want to use the Fendt Section Control automatic subsection function, TC-SC must be activated on both the terminal and your Section Control-enabled implement.

The timely switching on and off of the planter, fertiliser spreader or sprayer requires quite a bit of practice at the headland. The longer the hookup, the harder it becomes to get your timing right. Odd-shaped fields or wedges also get in the way of neat field work. The bigger the working width of the implement, the bigger the wasted overlap. Fendt Section Control is the answer.

• Save up to 15% on your resources by avoiding unwanted overlaps
• Reduce disease, pest and weed pressure by avoiding overly dense stocks and weak spots
• Less work for the driver, who can focus fully on monitoring the equipment
• Improve results with clean connections at the headland
• Headland mode: Option to work the inner field first, then the headland

Each run-out is inherently different, no field is uniform in itself. Different relief and soil types mean that the plants cannot be supplied evenly, which in turn leads to varying plant emergence within a single run-out. Maximising your yield therefore requires you to align your measures to the specific soil conditions. Fendt Variable Rate Control is the right function for this.

With the Tractor Implement System (TIM), an implement can automatically control certain tractor functions, like its driving speed and control valves. You can use this as long as both tractor and implement are equipped with the ISOBUS module TIM. Because the implement optimises its own operation, it takes the strain off the driver and the hookup works more productively. As it stands, this ISOBUS standard is in the final stages of development before having to pass the ISOBUS conformity test by AEF. Variotronic Implement Management is available as an option on Fendt tractors from the Fendt Vario 500 ProfiPlus upwards. On the implement side, TIM is initially used for loading wagons (Fendt Tigo XR).