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Overview

Business Problem

A Brittish food processing plant needs to be able to track all it's ingredients to the supplier

Exmos Solution

Develop a database which the programmable logic controllers (PLC) update and users can interrogate via a web interface

Tools Used

  • SQL Server 2000
  • ASP.net
  • Developer DXperience Controls

Benefits

Full traceability of the ingredients used in their product.

Business Problem

A British food processing company needs to be able to tell their customers the origin of each of their products ingredients. Our customer's plant processes hundreds of tonnes of food a day. Rather than producing a finished product our customer processes raw ingredients into a mix which is frozen and sent to their customer. These customers then use these mixes to produce their finished product.

The raw ingredients come from many suppliers and the factory has many customers looking for similar mixes. On the factory floor there are containers holding up to 19 tonnes of raw ingredients. As the customers are looking for similar product mixes the raw ingredients are often mixed without a customer, or final prodcut in mind. If you view the diagram below:


For example if one customer was looking for scrambled egg mix and one was looking for pancake batter, the factory would mix egg and milk, which could be used in both recipes. In these mixes their may be eggs from more than one supplier.

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