Food & Beverage Special Focus obtain oversight over third-party quality inspections and, thus, ensure only the highest quality ingredients get used in their products. On top of that, food and beverage processors can evaluate the capabilities and performance of various suppliers over time to establish the best suppliers to work with. Overall, this upstream visibility helps pre-emt quality and safety issues, even before those ingredients arrive on site. Getting the ball rolling One way to get the ball rolling with a phased approach is to start with a small-scale deployment concentrated on a single process that will produce quick wins and evidence of the value — a low-effort, high-return project. This will prove the value of the cloud-based quality solution to stakeholders, get plant employees happy using a new solution and lay the foundation for wider utilisation across the enterprise. Manufacturing needs to move more quickly to adopt new technologies. SaaS technology is the answer for many manufacturers. The power, flexibility, and versatility of the cloud have become essential to manufacturing survival. process, every line and every site are standardised and aggregated in the cloud. This single source of truth can guide decisions about the enterprise-wide quality and performance improvements, compliance and more. For instance, modern cloud solutions offer innovative real-time data visualisations and advanced analysis tools that help executives and quality pros compare performance across all sites. They can spot problem areas in need of abrupt intervention, better prioritise resources and recognise sources of best practices to benchmark against across their organisation. 3. Ensuring compliance Food and beverage manufacturers must comply with national and international regulations, as well as numerous industry standards. Meeting those stringent requirements — and all the documentation, reporting and auditing involved — can take up serious time and resources. Cloud-based quality systems make it easier than ever to uphold compliance and make audits a breeze. Compliance can also be enhanced through the systems themselves. When quality checks or data collections are missed, automated notifications remind operators and alert supervisors. This keeps everyone on top of critical quality and safety checks. With historical data stored in a centralised cloud repository, plant managers can easily generate reports to verify compliance. And in the event of an audit, they can collect and present requested data in minutes — rather than the days or even weeks it has historically taken to sift through mountains of paper files and spreadsheets. With the cloud, everything manufacturers need to maintain compliance is right at their fingertips. 4. Visibility upstream Safe, high-quality food products start with, highquality ingredients. Cloud-based quality management helps ensure that incoming raw ingredients are up to quality standards — before they are accepted and incorporated into final products. Food and beverage manufacturers can demand that their suppliers digitally collect and share quality data through the cloud-based system. They can then observe this data in realtime to monitor the quality of raw ingredients coming from suppliers around the globe. They Join us on Facebook Plant & Works Engineering Follow us on LinkedIn Plant & Works Engineering Follow us on Twitter @PWEmagazine1 For the latest news visit the PWE website www.pwemag.co.uk PWE Plant & Works Engineering
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