July, 2011, Cranswick:

Cranswick PLC are our latest customer and will initially use VisionForFood at a plant in Norfolk. Training dates have already been planned and a short implementation cycle is anticipated.

We welcome them on board!

July 6-8, 2011, Manila, Philippines:

Dr. Park Ng of VisionForFood was invited to speak at Philippines Association of Food Technologist’s 50th Annual Convention “Food Technology Beyond Boundaries”.  His talk on “Innovative IT Solution in Food Manufacturing” in the Technical Session “Hot Topics & New Developments” was attending by more than 200 participants from food industry, government agencies and the education sector – with regional as well as international representations  [www.paft-phil.com/50th-annual-paft-convention.html].
Customer Services director Will O'Dwyer was also in attendance as technical support and to attend sessions looking at the latest market trends to ensure we remain at the forefront of the industry.

An audio recording of Dr Ng's lecture can be found here (17MB)

March 11, 2011, Manila, Philippines:

Dr. Park Ng of VisionForFood was invited to speak at Philippines Association of Food Technologist’s Seminar: “IT Approach to Traceability in Food Manufacturing”.  100 participants attended representing food industry, government agencies and the education sector.

November 2010, HK:

Satay King go live with various modules of VFF software

October 12, 2010, Hong Kong:

VisionForFood hosted seminar “The Importance of Comprehensive Food Traceability in Manufacturing:- How to Achieve Full Track-Fore / Trace-Back through ISO 22000 and IT Systems” with SAS Systems. Federation of Hong Kong Industries,  Hong Kong Food Council, Hong Kong Food Hygiene Administrator Association, Hong Kong Food Science & Technology Association, HKQAA.   Speakers included Dr Park Ng of VisionforFood, Mr. Ronald Lau, Vice President of Hong Kong Food Council, Mr. Eric Ng, ISO22000 Auditor, HKQAA; Ms YS Leung, Senior Superintendent of the Centre for Food Safety, HK Gov’t. 

October 2010, UK:

Following a successful implementation in its York Factory, Del  Monte begin the roll out of  Vision For Food into its Wisbech Factory.

September, 2010, Hong Kong:

VFF/Altech appears in InvestHK (a Hong Kong Gov’t Department for Foreign Direct Investment) publication as part of a group of highlighted companies. 

September 2010, UK:

Trealy Farm Charcuterie buys Vision For Food  to control Food Safety, Food Quality & Traceability and automatically monitor its equipment.

August 2010, UK:

New Vision For Food module VisionNPD Formulations released to assist in development recipes, and purchased by Tetley

June 2010, UK:

Loseley Ice Cream buys the Vision For Food suite to control Food Safety, Food Quality & Traceability and Raw Material Specification Management.

June, 2010, Hong Kong:

SAS Systems, part of the Hong Kong listed Company SAS Dragon, signs as re-seller of VisionForFood in Hong Kong and Greater China.  Dr. Park Ng of VisionForFood: “The partnership will consolidate VisionForFood’s efforts to enter the mainland China and Taiwan markets, leveraging SAS’s extensive network in the Greater China region”.

May 2010, UK:

 Tata’s Tetley Tea buys VisionNPD for its worldwide Raw Material Specification Control.

May 7 to 9, 2010, Shen Zhen, P.R. China:

VisionForFood and SAS jointly exhibited in the China International Food & Catering Exhibition with over 10,000 industry delegates and visitors.  An interview with the national CCTV’s business today was conducted and broadcasted nationwide.

May 1, 2010, U.K.:

VisionForFood client Ardo featured in “Food Manufacturer” article – In Pole Position describing the work on handheld portable data collection terminals. 

March 25, 2010, Hong Kong:

VisionForFood hosted seminar “Digital Food Safety Management System: Hazard-less, Effort-less and Paper-less” with DataWorld to local food industries.  Speakers included Dr Park Ng of VisionForFood; and Mr. Jimmy Ho, Consulting Manager, Data World Solutions Ltd.

February 2010:

Following the recent investment from Finance Wales PLC, Vision For Food have moved its operation to high tech offices in Cwmbran in South Wales and opened a branch office in Hong Kong.

The move triggers plans to create an additional 22 new, high quality positions within the company to grow the customer sales, delivery and support teams.

January 2009:

Vision For Food completes paperless control software with the addition of VisionTouch, the shop floor touch screen data collection facility.

Together with VisionMobile and VisionADC, VisionTouch provides an opportunity to completely remove all paper forms from the shop floor, not just for HACCP sampling or the QA team, but for every aspect of material usage and production control.

All tasks are automatically filtered according to who the operator is, where they are working as well as taking into account what roles they are permitted to undertake.

Only works orders that correspond to the operator's responsibility are visible and only the relevant tasks are presented. Each task carries full instructions, batch control (if required) and an optional reveal of the critical limit range.

October 2008:

Vision For Food and Microsoft host a seminar at Microsoft's' prestigious premises in Reading to showcase the full Vision For Food suite of applications for Technical, Development and Production Control

November 2007:

Vision For Food demonstrated VisionTQM, the most comprehensive Food Safety and HACCP software package available in the UK at the Society of Food Hygiene & Technology (SOFHT) HACCP conference at the Brooklands Hotel Barnsley.

At this key SOFHT conference focusing on HACCP, Altech Software demonstrated some of its Vision For Food software. VisionTQM, is an active HACCP tool which can significantly improve Food Safety Compliance and shorten the Auditing process whilst removing the requirement for vast paper trails. Manufacturers present also recognised the huge potential of VisionTQM to accommodate the expansion of HACCP monitoring to include QA, production control and batch number recording on the factory floor.

Alan Blyther - Altech's Managing Director