Quality control begins as soon as raw materials arrive. BESTMIX® strengthens this process with sample management, NIR spectroscopy for material identification, integrated weighing, and release control, ensuring that only high-quality materials enter your production line and protect the integrity of your final product.
At the heart of every manufacturing facility, intake points serve as the critical entryway for raw materials. Yet, this crucial step often reveals significant challenges that can disrupt production and compromise product standards.
Sample management is frequently labour-intensive, with manual processes leading to inaccurate or incomplete quality checks at times. These issues not only affect data reliability but make it difficult to trace samples back to their sources when problems arise downstream. Weighing processes add another layer of complexity. If systems are outdated or disconnected from central software like ERP or MES, weighing accuracy suffers and inefficiencies cascade through production.
Finally, release control is often hindered by manual, multi-step approval processes that delay intake and allow non-compliant batches to slip through. Without real-time quality data, operators can inadvertently release non-confirmed batches, raising the risk of costly recalls and damaging brand reputation. Together, these challenges highlight the need for a streamlined, automated intake solution.
By ensuring that only high-quality ingredients enter the production process, manufacturers can produce consistently high-quality feed. Furthermore, accurate data on nutrient content and ingredient quality allows manufacturers to make precise adjustments to formulations, optimizing the nutritional value of the final feed and minimizing the potential for overuse of expensive ingredients. Knowing the quality of your incoming raw goods from the start also allows you to accommodate for lower quality batches, which if corrected for, can result in more consistent end products and less rework.
Each raw material can have different characteristics and risk factors, such as contamination, moisture content, or nutrient variability. A great quality control system simplifies this process by automatically determining which samples need to be taken and what analyses need to be performed. For instance, as soon as raw materials enter the production process, the system can schedule and assign analyses based on predefined protocols or regulatory requirements. This eliminates any ambiguity and reduces the risk of regulatory non-compliance. Also, a quality control system helps to ensure compliance by keeping track of sample histories, test results, and documentation required for regulatory reporting.
Faster intake processes reduce bottlenecks at the intake so raw materials can be processed quickly and efficiently. Accurate weight data ensures precise inventory tracking, preventing over- or under-purchasing of raw materials and therefore controlling inventory holding costs by avoiding overstocking. Automation of sample and weighing processes, streamlining release control, etc. minimize the need for manual handling, checks and approvals, allowing staff to focus on higher-value tasks.
Streamline your quality control from the moment a truck arrives. Automatic sample creation, fed by your ERP system, kicks off the process and analyses can be assigned instantly through pre-defined analysis schedules. With our automatic label printing module, the sample label is printed automatically when the sample is created, showing exactly how many physical samples are needed and which analyses to perform. This ensures complete clarity throughout the intake process.
Rely on real-time sample data to support the release of goods. With our process automation feature in BESTMIX Quality Control together with BESTMIX ERP, you can visualise mandatory quality parameters and save values directly via the weighbridge screen, automatically approve samples and release batches from the moment all critical test results are complete. You can also decide to block certain batch of the raw material before the full analysis is back from the lab - ensuring a controlled, efficient process from start to finish.
Smart integrations between products from our own BESTMIX product suite as well as external equipment like weighing devices and NIR instruments allow for automatic data capture - saving you time and eliminating human errors, keeping time at the intake gate minimal.
With BESTMIX's integrated weighing feature, achieve precision from the start. By connecting your ERP system directly to the weighbridge or using your MES software as an intermediary, you have all the tools at your fingertips to manage first and second weighing, monitor incoming transactions, and print necessary document.
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