Production control is critical to maintaining a consistently high quality product. Any quality control professional will tell you that production control comes from automation of key quality control and production control processes within a production facility. In much the same way that a supply chain starts at the raw materials and ends at the end consumer, a production control in a processing or manufacturing facility starts at receiving of ingredients and ends at the shipping of high quality products to customers.
Most processing and manufacturing facilities have turned to an automated production control platform encompassing quality control, recipe and ingredient scaling and mixing, and data collection, among others. Many companies use an MES or shop floor control system as a production control.
Vantage Delivers Formula Control and Tracking to your Facility
One example of an MES is Vantage’s Formula, Batch and Lot Tracing System. Bad batches are decreased as is ingredient loss, and production yields rise as do the number of batches produced per day given decreased batch cycle time when Vantage is implemented.
Lot and batch tracking is also automated with Vantage. When a problem is discovered without lot tracking protocols, the company must go back and inspect every product they’ve produced. With a production control in place that tracks lots, quality control personnel will only need to inspect batch per batch to verify the quality of the products within the batch. Decreased quality control time becomes a key advantage to production control system.
For more information on quality control in manufacturing facilities, or to consult a professional about which production control system serves your facility’s needs, turn to the industry experts at Matrix Controls: visit www.matrixcontrols.net; email sales@matrixcontrols.net; or dial 800-722-6839.