subject: Field Inspection And Reporting To Qa Via Real Time Delivery Is Made Possible By Cooltrax [print this page] Quality assurance and quality control administrators can now keep an eye on their entire entire cold chain remotely, especially within vertically integrated organizations. Forml manager of quality for large manufacturers and retailers of perishable food items, our internal programs spare no effort to produce items that met the most rigorous of organoleptic and bacteriological standards. There were rigid hands on production policies and evaluations that promoted optimum product performance within the confines of our manufacturing plants. Anyway, once these food items migrated throughout warehousing, distribution and retail networks, product integrity was dependent upon the hopes that everyone adhered to SOPs. Unfortunately, even if they were not necessarily effective tools for specific facets of the supply chain, clipboard checklists and periodic audits have always represented the main efforts of quality control to ensure food safety.
The primary factors that directly affect product integrity and shelf life are time and temperature, but quality and risk management personnel have now the opportunity to supervise these aspectes of supply chain in a real time manner. Cooltrax wireless technology provides organizations the ability to set business rules concerning temperature and time parameters and to receive prompt alerts when these rules are violated. Wireless technology can act as your filed inspector, calling you directly when operating procedures are not maintained, regardless of where your products are in the supply chain.
The industry is offered the possibility to employ an unlimited number of wireless sensors to evaluate all the variable conditions that affect product core temperatures. The amount of collective data that Cooltrax acquires from its multiple sensors provides a wealth of information not previously captured. Take the case of, stratification of refrigerated air flows in warehouses, trucks and retail displays which can prevent a consistent delivery of conditioned air. The net result is fluctuations in temperature that have a negative impact on product quality. Food engineers now have a better arsenal of information to work with when designing processing techniques or packaging types to address the rigors of distribution that products get exposed thanks to the collection of variable data from numerous points within the cold chain. The same is available quality assurance managers, providing them a predictive modeling capability for purpose of accurately measuring product life expectancy.
Bottom line, Cooltrax technology brings the value of field inspection directly to the QA desk via a real time all the time delivery, without the bias and time constraint of evaluation personnel.
