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Traceability & Tracking

No company wishes simply to add cost to their operation, even where mandatory regulatory compliance is required. The traditional highly regulated sectors of aerospace and pharmaceutical are being joined by others such as food in needing in being regulated and having to demonstrate compliance. Traceability is necessary, but at what cost?

There are two views that can be taken…
Regulatory Traceability
This is characterised by comments such as “only adds costs and may provide a level of insurance for the food processor”. This leads to a defensive view that compliance with food safety legislation and standards is a Cost alone and further one that was thought to be covered by other schemes. The situation is further complicated by regulatory traceability being linked to consumer choice for source of ingredients and GMO content, which in turn is linked to new and constantly developing food labelling regulations all of which has even more Costs. There is an alternative, which is delivered by EmsPT which is…

Value Traceability “Protecting your brand whilst delivering business value” Value traceability is predicated upon the reality that all manufacturing information is obtained from the same data, and intelligent use of it produces better insight and traceability if it is organised correctly. Thus a Value Traceability project is about production improvements with the data being used not just for regulatory requirements but also for customer requirements. This additionally reduces risk by minimising the chance of faulty material entering the supply chain and further minimising the cost of any internal rejects that may occur.

EmsPT takes the view that all aspects of production (raw material, bill of materials, actual materials, actual machines used and actual personnel involved) are part of the required data set. From this manufacturers obtain management insight and prevent unwanted events by being alerted promptly. This is achieved by modular functionality and by powerful report generation – as events happen.

EmsPT consultants can help you avoid traceability cost by integrating this apparent cost into a performance investment. In combination with our partner companies we can deliver complete systems that include key technologies of RFID and Barcodes thereby additionally avoiding expensive and wasteful solutions that treat RFID and tracking in isolation.