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Chinese Dairy Bolsters Quality, Safety

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Challenge
With manual recordkeeping hindering compliance regimens, food safety programs and initiatives aimed at yield improvements, this customer was determined to make improvements how it gathered and used quality data. Proficy Plant Applications now provides a fully integrated set of ingredient, process and quality data, covering milk receiving through processing and packaging, and the dairy is realizing quality improvements along with lower costs to meet regulatory requirements.

Solution Overview

To modernize the quality process, the dairy implemented the Proficy Plant Applications suite, along with Proficy iFix, Historian and Portal - replacing the manual recordkeeping system. The new system provides a genealogical model that can track the addition of bulk liquids into processing environments where shipments are blended. And the new quality system collects and validates quality information during the receiving process, as well as correlates detailed process and quality information to raw milk shipments and finished goods – providing end-to-end traceability.

By initiating quality records at milk receiving sites, this producer has a head start on maximizing yields within it’s processing operations. Knowing the composition of milk before it reaches the plant’s unloading pumps means that transitions between raw milk tankloads can be accompanied by real-time process adjustments – to ensure that consistent output is maintained.

Results

Because the new quality system was designed to serve internal operations as well as to meet regulatory requirements, the firm is enjoying benefits in several areas:

  • Improved yields through all operations
  • Simplified and less burdensome compliance reporting
  • Objective profiles of supplier shipments, enabling better matching of payments to incoming milk quality 

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