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What’s the business benefit of using batch properties?

Depending on your industry, business practices, and needs of regulations you may need to add and record characterstics or attributes (otherwise known as properties) to a specific batch record, for example:- Details of origin for caught fish and other seafoods Dimensions Results of quality control tests Active ingredient % for a drug By recording such […]

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Managing fixed batch size production processes

Across different industries there are many examples of fixed capacity batch size production for example:- Mixing Vessels for food preparation Aging Tanks for beverages Kilns for making bricks Non-continuous Ovens for bakeries Furnaces for melting metals These types of resource affect:- Process time for a manufacturing order Costing of resoMedia Libraryurces, fixed and variable overheads […]

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Do you have seasonal based recipes?

We’ve been in discussion with several bakeries over the last few months where they modify the recipe to manage seasonal adjustments of stabilizer to cater for products being produced during the summer and winter months. A ProcessForce solution would be to define two revisions of the same product, with different valid to and from dates. […]

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Customer complaints, the starting point for customer recalls

What’s the starting point of a product recall, bad press, regulatory body such as the FDA, end customer or distributor? Maybe your performing a product recall simulation to test you procedures? Normally it starts in the form of a complaint !. How do you track these today, offline database, post-its, or via Microsoft Excel?, Are complaints […]

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Top 10 ERP requirements for Process Manufacturers

If you’re a process manufacturer thinking of investing in a new business solution, due to your industry best practices and regulatory needs, you will have a list of critical requirements as listed below: Batch traceability – simple and easy to use forward and backward tracking to understand and answer all your batch related questions Batch […]

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The challenge of managing multiple production outputs

Depending on the production process or the materials being used or produced, from a single production order multiple products can be produced as part of the product process or at the end of the process. Industry examples include A single mould produces a left and a right hand part – Plastic Injection Moulding The extruded […]

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