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Mettler-Toledo and Evrythng partner for food production reporting solution
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Saturday, 22 May, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Royston, UK
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Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has announced a new, industry-leading strategic partnership with Evrythng, the pioneer of the Product Cloud. The partnership provides food manufacturers, retailers and brand owners with an end-to-end traceability and food production reporting solution. This will enable aggregation of product data at every point in the value chain, for visibility, validation and real-time intelligence. Having full visibility of all product data will help to identify ingredient and packaging issues early in the manufacturing process thereby facilitating product recalls and traceability to the precise location of substandard product in the marketplace for quick retrieval.
The two companies, working collaboratively, are positioned to further the digitalisation of the food safety landscape. The joint proposition is achieved by ProdX device data management software monitoring and collecting product inspection information in real-time. The software records all inspection activity from the systems - notably metal detectors, x-ray inspection, checkweighers and vision inspection technologies. This data can be integrated and modelled in the Evrythng Product Cloud, applying a new level of data intelligence to advance audit, reporting and food traceability use cases for multi stakeholder groups.
The integration between these technologies is founded in and aligned with the emerging digitalisation programmes from food safety bodies such as the FDA’s “New Era of Smarter Food Safety”, and the GFSI’s “Race to the Top”. Evrythng co-chaired the GS1 Standards Development Working Group and contributed critical intellectual property that created the GS1 Digital Link Standard. This upgrades the traditional barcode used by two million manufacturers today, to make every product smartphone-interactive and web-connected.
As well as being assured that their product digitalisation activities are compliant with these global standards, food manufacturers can benefit from enhanced transparency and traceability of products manufactured, more informed decision-making, greater automation and reduced operating costs.
At the heart of the Product Cloud, enabling this level of transparency and traceability is the Active Digital Identity (ADI) – a unique digital identity assigned to products in the Product Cloud, at an individual product item, batch or SKU level. The ADI ensures that data is captured and managed by Evrythng at every touch point throughout a product’s lifecycle. This information can be used by food manufacturers, retailers and food safety audit bodies to ensure compliance with food safety regulations and contract requirements, improve supply chain performance with greater agility and integrity, and can be surfaced to consumers to provide transparency with authentic data.
“The digital transformation in food manufacturing is going to happen: it’s a question of when, rather than if,” said Rob Rogers, senior advisor food safety & regulations of Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection. “We want to help food manufacturers to embrace that transformation, by making it as easy as possible for them. The two major factors they will need to address right at the outset are the gathering of manufacturing data and being able to simply and efficiently deploy that data to improve food safety and supply chain performance. The partnership between Mettler-Toledo and Evrythng is about developing and providing a robust and proven infrastructure to handle that wealth of digital data”.
“The beauty of our partnership with Mettler-Toledo is that it will allow food manufacturers to not only extend food safety performance, but also to harness digitalisation as a means to really take a leap into the future,” said Niall Murphy, CEO of Evrythng. “Food safety is a critical factor for all food manufacturers. Our solution will enable them to get ahead of the curve, by collecting and managing data for every individual product that comes out of their factory, in a way that is locked into already globally-accepted standards for digital track and trace”.
A joint webinar titled “The Food Safety Digital Revolution” is being hosted on May 27, 2021.
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