About Us
Vision For Food is a unique, modular software developed to replace paper control systems for operational and technical control of any food production business in the UK.
For decades the food industry has accumulated rooms full of paper forms, manually filled out during every shift to record the details of production, quality control and quality assurance, and to evidence the traceability and food safety compliance required by the audit community. Going paperless in food factories hasn’t been possible because the IT industry has struggled to write software capable of delivering the full scope of rigorous data collection with the required flexibility.
Until now.


These days almost everyone is familiar with ‘Smart’ touchscreen applications from their everyday life experiences. Vision For Food uses the same technology via Android tablets (or Windows tablets) and fixed line side touchscreen panel PCs, and as a result user acceptance is really good.
We market Vision For Food with the tag line ‘Paperless Data Capture that works just like you want IT to’ because the standard software allows you to handle any production process no matter what type of products you make. You simply ‘design’ the processes and define the CCPs, control points and checks that are required during manufacturing, and then add what responses and actions you want to elicit when certain results are recorded, or tolerances breeched.
Key customers have also helped us understand the importance of being able to relate production recipes directly to the processes set up for each product group. This means that we can directly interface to the production plan, and the associated operational and technical checks are automatically created in Vision For Food for each works order, in order, ready for operators to complete.

These days almost everyone is familiar with ‘Smart’ touchscreen applications from their everyday life experiences. Vision For Food uses the same technology via Android tablets (or Windows tablets) and fixed line side touchscreen panel PCs, and as a result user acceptance is really good.
We market Vision For Food with the tag line ‘Paperless Data Capture that works just like you want IT to’ because the standard software allows you to handle any production process no matter what type of products you make. You simply ‘design’ the processes and define the CCPs, control points and checks that are required during manufacturing, and then add what responses and actions you want to elicit when certain results are recorded, or tolerances breeched.
Key customers have also helped us understand the importance of being able to relate production recipes directly to the processes set up for each product group. This means that we can directly interface to the production plan, and the associated operational and technical checks are automatically created in Vision For Food for each works order, in order, ready for operators to complete.
What makes Vision For Food different?
Meet Management
The directors of Vision For Food first met in 1998. At the time, Alan Clarke was the Group IT Director of 11 UK food manufacturing sites (all of which used the same ERP system). Alan Blyther owned the Food Solution on behalf of the ERP vendor, and hosted the food industry customer forum which consistently sought IT options to replace the paper-based systems that everyone used. It was recognised that if the data was available digitally, it could provide immediate visibility and better control over production. When the two joined forces in 2007, very little had changed: the food industry was still run on paper, so they decided to do something about it, and Vision For Food was born.
Vision For Food is an application suite authored and supported from Cwmbran in South Wales following Investment from Finance Wales in 2010. The software can replace all of the paper based systems currently employed by the food industry to record in-process traceability, quality control and performance monitoring as well as food safety and health & safety compliance.
Alan Blyther
director

Alan has spent more than 30 years introducing IT solutions to the food manufacturing and retail supply chain sectors, following a successful career in retail management. Professionally, his priority is to ensure that all solutions and services add value and maintain the highest possible standards.
Alan regards the consistent delivery of good customer service as key to the success of any business, in the food industry or not. The goal remains for Vision For Food to be adopted as the industry standard for paperless control in the food factory.
Alan Clarke
director

Alan has worked within Information Technology for almost 40 years, 20 of those at senior levels in Manufacturing and Food Retail including 10 years as Group I.T. Director of two major multi-site UK food manufacturers and for a significant period he chaired a major ERP provider’s food industry customers’ Special Interest Group.
With a thorough knowledge of all aspects of the IT sector, including hands on management of Software Development, Technical Support and Infrastructure, Alan’s unique experience allows him to see how IT can best be leveraged to provide real value to business.
Alan Blyther
director

Alan has spent more than 30 years introducing IT solutions to the food manufacturing and retail supply chain sectors, following a successful career in retail management. Professionally, his priority is to ensure that all solutions and services add value and maintain the highest possible standards.
Alan regards the consistent delivery of good customer service as key to the success of any business, in the food industry or not. The goal remains for Vision For Food to be adopted as the industry standard for paperless control in the food factory.
Alan Clarke
director

Alan has worked within Information Technology for almost 40 years, 20 of those at senior levels in Manufacturing and Food Retail including 10 years as Group I.T. Director of two major multi-site UK food manufacturers and for a significant period he chaired a major ERP provider’s food industry customers’ Special Interest Group.
With a thorough knowledge of
all aspects of the IT sector, including hands on management of Software Development, Technical Support and Infrastructure, Alan’s unique experience allows him to see how IT can best be leveraged to provide real value to business.
Alan Blyther
director

Alan has spent more than 30 years introducing IT solutions to the food manufacturing and retail supply chain sectors, following a successful career in retail management. Professionally, his priority is to ensure that all solutions and services add value and maintain the highest possible standards.
Alan regards the consistent delivery of good customer service as key to the success of any business, in the food industry or not. The goal remains for Vision For Food to be adopted as the industry standard for paperless control in the food factory.
Alan Clarke
director

Alan has worked within Information Technology for almost 40 years, 20 of those at senior levels in Manufacturing and Food Retail including 10 years as Group I.T. Director of two major multi-site UK food manufacturers and for a significant period he chaired a major ERP provider’s food industry customers’ Special Interest Group.
With a thorough knowledge of all aspects of the IT sector, including hands on management of Software Development, Technical Support and Infrastructure, Alan’s unique experience allows him to see how IT can best be leveraged to provide real value to business.

Ed Nitek
The management team would like to acknowledge the important contribution made by Ed, who has sadly passed, throughout the development of the Vision For Food system.
As a former Production Director and Technical Director at various major food production businesses Ed’s knowledge and experience was invaluable in ensuring that our software development always considers how the intended operators are to use the applications and reflect the operational environment where they are to be deployed.

Ed Nitek
The management team would like to acknowledge the important contribution made by Ed, who has sadly passed, throughout the development of the Vision For Food system.
As a former Production Director and Technical Director at various major food production businesses Ed’s knowledge and experience was invaluable in ensuring that our software development always considers how the intended operators are to use the applications and reflect the operational environment where they are to be deployed.

Ed Nitek
The management team would like to acknowledge the important contribution made by Ed, who has sadly passed, throughout the development of the Vision For Food system.
As a former Production Director and Technical Director at various major food production businesses Ed’s knowledge and experience was invaluable in ensuring that our software development always considers how the intended operators are to use the applications and reflect the operational environment where they are to be deployed.