VisionTQM
  • A flexible paperless environment for all your CCP's, QA & Process Control Points from ingredients weights & cooking curves to batch recording & organoleptics.
  • Complete batch traceability from raw materials to finished packs & back again
  • Reduce your adverse variance & waste, improve quality, customer service & safety compliance

VisionTQM is a HACCP driven fully comprehensive food safety management software for process manufacturing companies. It also delivers the ability to devise and complete tests associated with Quality Assurance as well as all Production Process Controls including full batch traceability.

Ready for BRC V5 and with compliance to ISO22000 VisionTQM is designed to speed up the creation and simplify the control of HACCP studies. The multi-faceted nature of HACCP prompted the development of a much needed IT-based approach to HACCP where the software will guide the HACCP team systematically through the planning and implementation of HACCP while minimizing the chances of oversight on any of its required steps. The aim is to help you to demonstrate full compliance & strive towards optimal food safety, improving the quality and timeliness of food safety controls, lowering the risk of your customers being embroiled in a damaging public food safety scare and product recall.

The step-by-step procedures identify the Critical Control Points (CCP’s) and allow you to design appropriate control methods, define critical limits and corrective actions as required by HACCP. In addition conditions for all other Control Points (CP’s) to ensure quality, cost control, good manufacturing practice or legal compliance can be set up at the same time.
 

VisionTQM offers a unique opportunity to automate the monitoring of all checking, sampling and measurement activity associated with each control point whilst (via VisionTQM-Mobile or VisionTQM-Touch) offering the utopian choice to remove all paper based shop floor recording. Data requiring manual input can be collected via interactive and potentially inexpensive hand held devices running Microsoft WindowsCE or Windows Mobile.

Any non-compliance will immediately be brought to the attention of the operator along with the appropriate corrective actions together with the corresponding work instructions. Workflow ensures that management can be alerted automatically via email or text message if required. As an added feature, the corrective action functionality can be customized so that different levels of non-compliance will render different pre-determined corrective action, minimizing wastage and increasing business efficiency.

Where data is required from factory systems controlling and monitoring machines such as ovens, chillers, temperature probes or scales etc, VisionTQM’s sister application VisionADC will collect the recordings and forward them to VisionTQM to automatically process the results and once again trigger alerts automatically when data falls outside or nears acceptable limits.

 
 
In routine day-to-day operation VisionTQM can automatically schedule all shop floor data collection based on the control methods and frequency required for each control point. Alternatively Vision For Food can link to most ERP systems or even Excel spreadsheets, in which cases the monitoring plans could be automatically driven by works orders according to the production plan. The ability to generate and record user defined batch / lot numbers at any stage provides bi-directional & detailed traceability of product during the manufacturing “black hole” process, all this once again without paper.

Integrated with VisionPDM, VisionTQM shares a single database providing an opportunity for Technical and Development to work more closely together. For new products developed in VisionPDM the recipe and production flows will already exist and technical can immediately begin to apply the HACCP principles and food safety control, streamlining and speeding up the process even more.

The innovative software creates a single repository for all food safety and quality related data. All terms of reference, pre-requisites, SOP’s, staff travel, training, product and hazard information is stored in the same place alongside the results of every test, check and measurement recorded. Each event is stamped with the time and date along with the identity of the operator. This can only lead to greater accuracy and discipline when complying with the HACCP process. Customer relationships will benefit too because they prefer to do business with suppliers who can demonstrate the highest standards for food safety and quality.
Traceability is instant, graphical and fully comprehensive....

.... and so is the detail of who did what, when and what was the result.
 
 
In addition the time spent preparing for audit may be dramatically reduced as everything is stored in the same database and any data can be retrieved at the touch of a button using the host of standard enquiries and customisable reports. Further time could therefore be saved during the audit process because of the ability to easily produce evidence of the verdicts, justifications and results the HACCP team have reached and recorded during the course of each HACCP study.
VisionTQM Features:
  • Easy to use, designed to speed up the HACCP process
  • Helps the HACCP team to demonstrate full compliance & strive towards optimal food safety
  • Rapid creation & control of HACCP studies with full CCP/QA/Process Control Point monitoring & analysis
  • Paperless shop floor data collection at all control points & ability to link with automated monitoring systems
  • Inexpensive WindowsCE or Mobile devices can be used
  • ISO 22000 compliance
  • Built in reports provide in depth analysis & responses to audit queries without paper vaults
  • Dramatically shorten the time spent preparing for audit
  • Hold all relevant team records, food safety pre-requisites & associated documents in the same database
  • Every transaction & change is systematically & automatically audited for full traceability
  • Multiple hazards per CP/CCP
  • Multiple control methods per hazard & multiple samples per control method
  • Multiple critical limits per control method
  • Multiple corrective actions per breach of critical limit
  • Easy to construct Process Flow Diagram & association of all steps to Risk Assessment
  • Standard Codex Alimentarius CCP Decision Tree plus customizable ones for specialty industry
  • CCP Decision Trees are interactive to ensure comprehensive coverage of all Process Flow Steps
  • All CCP Decision Tree responses stored in database with additional Justification field for any clarification needed
  • CCP verdicts automatically updated on Process Flow Diagram for easy reference
  • Allows qualitative & quantitative CCP Limits plus different levels of conformity providing more efficient management of production
  • Generate a sampling plan for control point monitoring or trigger it automatically via your ERP system
  • Instant verdicts as the software compares each test results with the critical limits for every control method
  • Automatic alerts to management via email or SMS messaging
  • Corrective actions instantly presented to the operator
  • Multiple language capability
  • Ad-hoc monitoring & SPC function
  • Batch traceability

                

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Vision For Food Overview

VisionTQM: Total Quality Management

VisionPDM: Product (Recipe) Definition Management

VisionADC: Automated Data Capture

VisionNPD: New Product Development Critical Path and Specification Management