Patent ID: 8757091

Claim:
An arrangement for indicating an undesired detachment of a milking member ( 12 , 30 a - d ) from an animal ( 1 ), comprising: the milking member ( 12 , 30 a - d ) that attaches to the animal ( 1 ) for milking the animal during a milking process; a supervision device ( 17 , 18 , 44 ) that automatically supervises the milking member ( 12 , 30 a - d ) during the milking process, including automatically determining i) when the milking process has been completed, and ii) when the milking member has been undesirably detached from the animal before the milking process has been completed, an undesirably detached milking member ( 12 , 30 a - d ) being the milking member determined to have been detached from the animal before the milking process has been completed; and a removing device ( 10 , 34 a - d ) that i) detaches the milking member ( 12 , 30 a - d ) from the animal and moves the detached milking member to a parking position when the milking process has been determined to have been completed, and ii) moves the undesirably detached milking member ( 12 , 30 a - d ) to an indicating position ( 23 , 42 ) when the milking member has been determined to have detached from the animal before the milking process has been completed, the removing device ( 10 , 34 a - d ) being connected to the milking member and to the supervision device, wherein the indicating position is located at a distance from the parking position ( 21 , 37 ), the indicating position being a position visually indicating to an operator that the milking member located at the indicating position has been detached from the animal before the milking process was completed.