Vigilistics, a company serving the dairy and food processing industries, provides configurable software for tracking, tracing and analysis of process manufacturing. Developed for global leaders in dairy and food manufacturing, the Vigilistics software provides auditable records for Bioterrorism Act and FDA compliance, improves energy use, reduces product loss and provides production data for ERP enterprise systems.
The Vigilistics software integrates with existing plant systems and PLCs, adding capabilities to the plant operator’s systems. Vigilistics systems are in mission-critical operations in fluid dairy, cheese, powdered milk, soup and other food applications.
We have also found many opportunities for economic benefits, often paying for the installation in less than six months. Vigilistics has proven to meet the requirements of the Bioterrorism Act and the FDA, requirements with which all food and dairy manufacturers must comply. Vigilistics software solves three major challenges in today’s food manufacturing industry:
The Economics of Manufacturing
Profitability is critically impacted by operations that Vigilistics monitors and helps to improve. Product loss, energy use and other operating costs have an impact on the bottom line. One major dairy processor that has implemented Vigilistics has saved well over $1 million per year in direct costs by monitoring, detecting and preventing milk loss during processing. Another has saved over $250,000 per year in wastewater charges.
Bioterrorism Act and FDA Compliance
Compliance is not optional. Until now, no packaged, configurable software has been available that completely meets the requirements and intents of the regulations. In addition to the tracking and tracing required by the Bioterrorism Act, Vigilistics also monitors real-time inventory and provides built-in reports for FDA compliance, CIP and batch runs. In fact, the FDA has approved Vigilistics to replace chart recorders for legal compliance systems.
Today, in five seconds, Vigilistics lets you trace from finished products back to the specific delivery of milk or other ingredients to the plant. You can then trace that load of milk or those ingredients through every path in your plant and determine which products contain that delivery, even in trace amounts. With other systems, this would take many hours.
Enterprise Integrated Manufacturing
Most food processing companies still rely on manual data entry of production results and ingredient usage despite massive investments in ERP systems. Vigilistics collects accurate and auditable production data in a form that’s immediately ready to use. Several plants using Vigilistics have automated the input to their ERP system, thus eliminating operator entry and improving information at the enterprise level. |
