The milking process may be broken down into several sub-tasks such as collecting the animals before milking, routing the animals into the parlour, inspection and cleaning of the teats, attachment of milking equipment to the teats, and massaging back of the udder to relieve any held back milk, the extraction of milk, removal of the milking equipment, routing of the animals out of the parlour. The milking process is the collection of tasks that devoted to extracting the milk from the animal (rather than the broader field of the dairy animal husbandry), and maintaining the milk yield during the lactation period (approximately 300 days) requires the consistent milking intervals.
