QUALITY AND TRACE ABILITY

“Our priority is to guarantee quality to our customers. The tracking of each batch is our first concern: our numerous suppliers, small farmers, agricultural or industrial co-op all have their own characteristics. We want to be able to find and control the characteristics of each product and erase all risk of fraud, our production is based mainly on mixing processes”. Before the entrance weighing, the lorry drives under a control post where a remote controlled arm takes a grain sample away for quality control. Each vehicle is associated with a contract, a carrier, eventually a third party, a production or cereal distribution chain. A contract is associated with a product and all of the samples taken.
“The risk of errors was enormous. Our handicap was in our inability to automate the exchange of information between our manual control processes and the heart of the system which relies on an Ethernet network and an IBM/AS400 server.”