Looking to Computerization for Enhanced Food Safety: Truly Traceable Formulation and Weighing Detailed in METTLER TOLEDO's New White Paper


Advances in technology are allowing food manufacturers to improve plant productivity, product quality and consumer safety through computerizing their formulation and weighing processes for full ingredient traceability and production tracking. Mettler-Toledo provides guidance on how to achieve this in its new white paper, entitled "Improved Production Yield through Computer Based Formulation/Recipe Weighing."

The white paper discusses key drivers for and benefits of the computerization of formulation and weighing processes including growing international regulatory pressure on food producers emphasizing the need for traceability. At the same time, increasingly sophisticated centralized systems can help manufacturers improve their bottom line and maintain profitability by improving data consistency, speed of data analysis and recall management compared with paper-based systems. If a customer event occurs, investigation into production steps must be undertaken quickly, with defective batches rapidly identified and measures taken to ensure future product quality and safety. This process is enabled and eased by the implementation of a computerized and intelligently networked formulation and weighing system which includes recipe development, quality testing, production planning and monitoring dispensing activities.

By achieving truly gapless documentation and tracking of formulation and weighing, manufacturers will be able to take advantage of active stock management, with components flowing into the production process in a timely manner, ensuring that available materials are being fully exploited, according to the white paper. In addition, safety and reliability are enhanced with advanced computerized systems that leave no room for confusion with barcodes and scanners, further ensured by allowing operators to only manage materials according to the user rights configured to their processor status.

This latest Mettler-Toledo white paper looks at many of the benefits that manufacturers can achieve by centralizing and automating their formulation and weighing systems, gives guidance as to useful components and configurations, and highlights the gains a company could see to its procedures, from a financial and regulatory point-of-view. It details the system options that manufacturers have, which can include specialized weighing stations, seamless data exchange with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)/Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and real world tracking and tracing.

To download a copy of the white paper, please go to:
http://glo.mt.com/global/en/home/supportive_content/White_Papers/ind-wp-ip.html

Contact

Markus Diefenbach

Segment Marketing Food

Industrial Division

markus.diefenbach@mt.com

+41 44 944 3187

About METTLER TOLEDO

METTLER TOLEDO is a leading global supplier of precision instruments and is the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial and food retailing applications. METTLER TOLEDO provides weighing solutions that help customers by automating processes, increasing yields, controlling product quality and complying with industry standards and regulations. For more, visit www.mt.com

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