subject: Bakery Protects The Quality Of Their Dough Through Real-time Temperature Monitoring [print this page] Summary Summary
A bakery that provides artisan bread and pastries to over 500 restaurants and cafes in Sydney, Canberra and Victoria, having two main selling points in Sydney and Melbourne faced the need to improve the way the team was able to comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points requirements in an effective manner.
The head baker from Sydney declared that the team was in the situation of spending up to seven hours each week to manually record coolroom temperatures for reports. Accurately monitoring of temperature is of great importance for any company that deals with perishables not only because the need of being compliant with food safety norms, but to avoid unnecessary losses. One single coolroom failure could cost the bakery up to $10,000 in stock loses.
The Solution
There was no doubt that in order to improve the reporting process the data monitoring needed to be automated.
The solution arose when the bakery opened its new point Melbourne and one of its new customers happened to be an expert in real-time temperature monitoring. He recommended setting up monitoring devices that provide remote access to real-time temperature data in both bakeries.
At present, wireless temperature tags inserted into batches of dough and installed in coolrooms automatically transmit data via radio frequency to the monitoring devices, all being transferred to a cloud-based service. The bakerys team has now 24/7 visibility of all coolrooms and the dough stored in both bakeries only by accessing the cloud service with a secure login on any web-enabled device. The best part is that any temperature fluctuation or device failure triggers automatic email and text alerts to bakery and production managers. This allows employees to react as soon as a problem occurred, avoiding good spoiling.
Business Benefits
Cutting the human error risk Automated data transmission removes any kind of suspicion that the monitoring could be damaged by any kind of mistakes an employee can make. Also, the temperature can be checked at any time, multiple times a day, not just twice.
Instant reaction - When something goes wrong, the malfunction is spotted and all necessary measures to restore the good functioning of the equipment can be rolled out. The risk of stock loses is significantly reduced.
Cost efficiency Considering that all problems are immediately signaled a business could save a lot of money in energy and maintenance bills as the equipment could be fixed as soon as any problem occurs.
Improved HACCP reports Any company that deals with temperature sensitive products knows that the worst night mare is an HACCP auditor showing up in the middle of a fridge defrost process. Having previous records generated by the automated solution helps remove any trace of doubt that the fridges may not well.
Accessing the available new technology gives a company an important competitive advantage, eliminating the risk of unnecessary losses and cutting costs from maintenance and electric bills. Letting go to the old fashion way of monitoring temperature upgrades your ability of controlling the quality assurance process and provide high standard perishable goods.
