Traceability

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently developing additional recordkeeping requirements for businesses along the supply chain to enhance the traceability of potentially contaminated food products. These practices shall intensify the tracking and tracing of certain foods to ensure fast and effective traceability processes in case of potential recalls. The FDA aims to foster the rapid and effective identification of the contaminated foods’ recipients to mitigate or prevent foodborne illness outbreaks or serious adverse health consequences for consumers.

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Automation

May 16, 2022

What are the differences between MES and ERP Systems?

Most large manufacturers already use ERP systems to optimize their operations across the business. However, ERP software solutions usually do not offer production modules and, therefore, have gaps in managing manufacturing execution. The MES takes over where the ERP system ends: on the shop floor. The MES system schedules and manages batch runs and optimizes quality management during production, which is usually not covered by an ERP system.

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Customer stories

April 22, 2022

Significant cost savings with streamlined digital processes

With the help of the iMonitor global traceability feature, Alamir Bakery reduced the time needed to run these traceability exercises to find the batch details and identify the supermarkets to which the affected product was dispatched from 24 hours per traceability exercise down to seconds. With 24 different products being digitized in the iMonitor system, the quality assurance team now knows immediately which specific batch needs to be potentially recalled.

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Automation

August 11, 2021

Digital Food Traceability Solutions – 5 Essential Benefits for Food Manufacturers

In an increasingly complex global food supply chain, manufacturers, growers, and distributors alike are pushed to ramp up their traceability procedures and efforts to implement transparency.

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Food: safety/integrity/sustainability

August 11, 2021

6 Reasons Why Digital Lean Manufacturing Is the Future of Food Production

Digital lean manufacturing is a relatively new term for the food industry, although traditional lean manufacturing has long been implemented to increase efficiency...

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Automation

August 11, 2021

Food production: It’s high time to digitise processes

Accelerating the time to market of their products is one of the key objectives of most food manufacturers, as it means delivering fresher products of very high quality much faster to the consumer – saving time and money and increasing customer satisfaction.

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Traceability

Tighter traceability tracking rules for food businesses are coming fast

What are the differences between MES and ERP Systems?

Significant cost savings with streamlined digital processes

Digital Food Traceability Solutions – 5 Essential Benefits for Food Manufacturers

6 Reasons Why Digital Lean Manufacturing Is the Future of Food Production

Food production: It’s high time to digitise processes

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