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Emycon 2018

To coincide with continued growth and expansion plans, Emydex held a company update day (Emycon), in Castleknock Hotel, on Friday 20th April 2018.

The purpose of this event was to update employees on the new company vision and strategy the company will be focusing on going forward and bring them up to speed on where the company is currently at and what we are hoping to achieve. The day consisted of presentations from key staff members including the CEO, Technical Director, Project Managers, Customer Support Manager, and Overseas Partners.

David McMahon, Emydex CEO, presented the companies’ mission, vision and strategy for moving forward. He also announced plans to create new jobs both in Dublin and Australia in the coming months, along with a new office based in Brisbane.

Presentations took place throughout the day covering New Product Development, Framework Updates, Project Management strategies and Market updates (Ireland &UK, Australasia, South Africa and North America/Canada.

Our overseas partners dialed in via go-to-meeting and updated colleagues on their backgrounds, current customer projects, their pipeline outlook and future direction. 

Overall the event was a huge success and one we will do again in the future.

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Emydex New Product Development Survey

Customer Survey Results

In March 2018, Emydex conducted a customer survey looking for feedback on New Product Development from key Emydex users within our existing customer community.

The survey queried customer interest levels in ten potential new products Emydex will potentially develop, to gauge interest in the products themselves and willingness to be part of the product design, validation and testing processes including:

  • Emydex Quality Management System (EQMS) – complete and live with customers
  • Emydex Product Specification System
  • Emydex Group-Wide Animal Payments System
  • Emydex Production Planning System – under development
  • Emydex Enterprise Master Data Management
  • Emydex Demand Planning & Forecasting System
  • Emydex Leaker Tracker System
  • Emydex Centralised Consolidated Reporting System
  • Business Intelligence & Data Analytics using MS Power BI

The survey results are highlighted below, summarising the products customers are most interested in seeing us develop in the future:

1st place

EQMS system with 97% of customers who responded either (1) very interested/willing to assist with design and testing or (2) interested, please keep me updated.

Emydex have developed a centralised QMS solution providing for all quality & compliance needs in one place, suitable for single or multi-site operations.

Joint 2nd place

Product Specification Management system and Business Intelligence with 93% of customers either very interested/willing to assist with design and testing or (2) interested, keep me updated.

Business Intelligence also had the highest single score for Very Interested/ willing to assist, with just over half of all survey respondents willing to participate in the design and testing.

Product Specification Management system – A centralised data storage solution for product specifications, such as raw materials, ingredients, packaging and finished goods, alerting internal and external partners of changes to the product spec.

Business Intelligence - Host & utilize the power of Power BI, that allows the creation of user-definable dashboards, pulling data from many sources and performing data analytics, accessing data via web based and mobile devices.

4th place

Production Planning with 90% of all customer respondents either very interested or interested, keep me updated.

Generate Production Plans based on sales demands & stock levels, using multi-tiered Bill-of-Materials. Calculate material & packaging requirements, with scheduling, capacity planning and cost calculations.

5th place

Master Data Management on 84%.

Setup & maintain all master data in one location, such as Products, Label Designs & Bill-of-Materials, with full auditing & version control and management over publishing of master data to the group’s individual plants.

Joint 6th place

Cloud Animal Payments and Centralised Reporting, with 83% either very interested or interested, keep me updated.

Cloud Animal Payments - Cloud-hosted Animal payments system for multiple production sites, with central booking system & multi-currency support.

Centralised Reporting - Bring all plant level data into one place in a consistent and consolidated state to allow group wide reporting and data archiving.

8th place

Demand Planning with 56% either very interested or interested, keep me updated.

Generate long term demand planning & forecasting for sales and material requirements, across multiple plants by looking at historical trends and strategic plans.

9th place 

Leaker Tracker System with 53% either very interested or interested, keep me updated.

A system that will give you the ability to record and report vacuum pack leakers in real time the way you want!
Capturing this data will allow you to find root causes of leaking vacuum-packed products, test and track new trail packing, save money on packaging waste and reduce claims from customers.

Apple iPad Winner

As part of the survey, we placed all customer respondents into a draw to win an Apple iPad. The winner (pictured below) was Paul Reid from Rosderra Irish Meats.

David McMahon, Emydex CEO (right) presenting Apple iPad to Paul Reid (left).

For more information on any of our products or if you would like to participate in any of the mentioned New Product Development projects please contact Shane Hayes in Emydex on:

+353 1 8855990 or email Shane on [email protected]

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Emydex Quality Management System Version 5

First released over five years ago, and operating with many of Emydex’s existing customers, this latest Version 5.0 release of the Emydex Quality Management System (QMS) has undergone a major redesign and development over the past 12 months, with significant input from some of Emydex’s largest multi-site beef, lamb, pork and seafood processors operating in Ireland, the UK, Africa and Australia.

Taking all the learnings and experiences gained from previous Emydex QC system iterations; this latest release of the Emydex QC module, is a fully comprehensive and extensive QMS system, designed to cater for the needs of large Enterprise-level food processing organisations.

The system is ideally suited to group level food processors operating different business divisions, spanning different geographies, offering both real-time and accurate reporting on QC activities, at both group and individual plant level via the Emydex QC cloud-hosted platform.

Maintain a sky-level overview of QC activities across divisions and operations within the organisation, in real-time

Cloud v On-Premises: In addition to hosting in the cloud, the system can alternately be installed on-premises if required.

Small v Large: It can also cater just as effectively for both small and medium sized meat, fish and food processing plants, as well as larger production operations.

EMYDEX QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DEMO VIDEO

Key features include:

BUILD

QC Workflow Builder: one of the most significant improvements to the Emydex QMS, is major design and development effort focussed on developing an easy to use, yet comprehensive QC workflow builder tool.

This application allows in-house Technical and QC personnel (non-IT people) to design and build their own Quality workflows in-house, including QC surveys, QC check-sheets and quality audits, without the need to involve either Emydex developers or internal IT resources.

The result is an easy to use, icon-driven workflow builder application, powered by Question Blocks that can be saved as templates, and re-used from one quality survey to the next.

Workflows can include conditional responses such as ‘if answer is X do A, if Y then B’, and includes Action Plans such as notifying supervisors, generating follow up actions, sending emails, reminders, notifications, triggering CAPA workflows etc.

Configure QC workflows from scratch. Determine what questions to ask, and how best to capture the information needed.

CAPTURE

QC Workflow Data Capture: once QC workflows have been designed and tested they can be executed on the factory floor. Workflow surveys can validated by running them in ‘test mode’ in which case, the test transactions are saved separately from ‘live’ QC data.

QC data capture can be carried out using a range of data capture hardware devices including existing fixed position Industrial terminals, rugged tough-books or even low-cost tablet devices running the Windows 10 operating system.


Capture QC data such as CAPA workflows on low-cost tablet devices running Windows 10


Capture QC data such as Product Quality Checks on rugged Toughbook devices for harsh environments

Emydex Production System Look-up & Validation – One major advantage with the Emydex QC module, is that food processors who have also implemented an Emydex Factory Floor Production Control and Traceability reporting system in their operations, can scan product barcodes, retrieve traceability details, and perform validation from the Emydex QC system against production data stored in their Emydex Production system, something not possible with independent 3rd party QC systems.


Kill line QC inspections – logging QC faults against Carcasses within Emydex Production systems

REPORT

Instant Back-office Reporting via Plant Maps & Dynamic Data Views – whether operating in a single plant or group plant operation, managers and supervisors will have real-time access to QC data captured as it happens.

The QC module plant map drill-downs allow supervisors to ‘manage by exception’ drilling down to the areas where any QC issues or non-conformances are raised, to investigate and raise actions as needed.


Drill-down plant maps enable issues & non-conformances to be identified and actioned quickly

QC Data can also be viewed using Data Grids and Views that can be configured by users themselves, saved as personal templates; allowing data to be grouped, sorted, filtered, analysed and exported to Word, Excel or Email if needed.

 Customise the way you view results, and decide what information you want to see and when

Emydex Report Writer – Emydex’s QC report writing application can also be used to prepare printed reports that can match exactly the format of the original paper-based QC surveys and check-sheets if required.


Original Paper-based QC Survey

Same QC data presented in similar report format post electronic data capture on an Emydex QC device

Other features worth highlighting include:

Production Calendars

Create multiple production calendars. Outline schedules relative to hours of operation.

Production Schedules

Create Schedules to control what needs to be done and when? Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly schedules

(1) Pre-production (2) Post-production or (3) During production at set interval checks – you decide

Schedule Workflows

Schedule Workflows with a click of a button. Apply zero, one or many schedules to a workflow as required

Roles & Responsibilities

Assign QC Workflows only to those responsible for them. Assign Actions only to those with authority to complete them.

Missed Workflow Notifications

Quality System will track missed Workflows. Automatically notify when a workflow is missing or not completed as scheduled.

Organisation

Assign QC Workflows to different Plants, Areas and Roles. Track what needs to be done where?

Equipment


Manage Equipment Lists. Create Preventative maintenance quality checks for equipment.

Actions Console

Log into your personal QC Actions console. Track all your Quality System Actions. See only Actions you are responsible for.

To organise an On-line demonstration or request a 30-day free trial of the Emydex QMS System, please contact Emydex on [email protected] or call us via our contact numbers

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Emydex Partnership in Southern Africa

Johannesburg – South Africa:
Emydex Technology, based in Dublin Ireland, is a leading supplier of Factory Floor data capture, Production Reporting and Traceability Software systems to Meat, Fish, Poultry & Food processors around the world.

Emydex are pleased to announce details of an exclusive partnership agreement with Summit Process Solutions (SPS), based in Johannesburg, South Africa. SPS integrates factory floor Industrial hardware including weighing, labelling, inspection, processing, data capture, and IT systems to create tailor-made solutions for meat, fish, poultry and food processing companies operating in Southern Africa.

Summit Process Solutions

Summit Process Solutions partner with leading international suppliers of Industrial weighing, processing, labelling, packing and inspection systems such as Scanvaegt Systems in Denmark. Through such international partnerships, SPS are ideally placed to source, supply and maintain all Industrial hardware needed to operate Emydex software systems including Industrial touch-screen PCs, hand-held scanners, weighing scales and printers.

Lead by a hands-on, committed and experienced team comprising of Rodney Macer-Wright, Wilfred Koekemoer and Jeffrey Macer-Wright, SPS has over 50 years of combined Hardware & Software knowledge in the Southern African food industry.

“The partnership with Emydex enables Summit Process Solutions to provide Southern African food processors with comprehensive factory floor production systems with focus on full traceability, stock/warehouse management, yield and quality control. With the Emydex Factory Floor Software and the Scanvaegt weighing and data collection equipment, we can provide complete end to end factory floor software solutions to fit our customer’s requirements.” said Macer-Wright commenting on the Emydex partnership.

Meat Corporation Namibia

Emydex Technology have been active in the Southern African region since 2013 when they rolled out Emydex factory floor data capture, production control and traceability reporting systems to Meat Corporation Namibia (MeatCo)’s multi-site beef processing operations spread across Namibia. This installation included a full Emydex rollout to MeatCo’s head-quarter site in Windhoek that includes beef primal slaughter and deboning operations, a wholesale operation, value-added plant as well as a cannery operation. The Emydex solution deployed included kill line & payments, carcass management, processing and packing, warehousing & dispatch, value-added processing, yield and cost reporting, traceability, quality and compliance management.

Botswana Meat Commission

Emydex’s Packing and Processing software system has also been installed across Botswana Meat Commissions’ three beef production plants in Botswana at Lobatse, Francistown and Maun for Outer case marker (OCM) weighing and labelling operations in each plant. Plans are in place to complete the Emydex rollout from factory door-to-door in the group’s main HQ site in Lobatse by end of 2017. Furthermore, Emydex are about to begin implementation of the Emydex Coldstore Warehouse Management System in the Table Bay Cold Store in Cape Town South Africa.

Klein Karoo

In 2016 Emydex successfully installed its factory floor systems into Klein Karoo’s multi-site Abattoir, Deboning and Value added operations located in Oudtshoorn, Graaff-Reinet and Swellendam, South Africa. Klein Karoo being the largest Ostrich Processor in the world.

“Our partnership with Summit Process Solutions enables Emydex to provide a full turn-key solution to Southern African meat, fish, poultry and food processors by combining best-of-breed software solutions from Emydex, coupled with world-leading industrial hardware solutions that are supplied and maintained locally in Southern Africa by Summit Process Solutions. SPS have over 50 years’ experience working in our core industries in Southern Africa. They know the industry, they know the market, they know the customers. They are the ideal fit for Emydex as our dedicated partner and distributor within the region”

David McMahon, Emydex CEO

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EMYDEX TO EXHIBIT AT FIELDAYS EXPO, NEW ZEALAND, JUNE 2017

WAIKATO – NEW ZEALAND:

Emydex Technology, with its head-quarters in Dublin Ireland, today announced plans to exhibit at the 2017 Fieldays exposition taking place at Mystery Creek in Hamilton, Waikato, North Island New Zealand from 14 – 17 June 2017.

Visit us at the The Ireland National Stand, No. D67-D73

Fielday – Largest Agricultural Trade Show in Southern Hemisphere.

Fieldays is the largest agricultural trade show taking place in the Southern Hemisphere. The agribusiness event attracts over 120,000 visitors and 1000 exhibitors each year.

Emydex’s local market distributor for Australasia, Ian Carson, based in Brisbane Australia, will be present on the Emydex stand for the duration of the show. The Emydex stand will form part of the larger Ireland Agribusiness village hosted by Irish Government agency Enterprise Ireland. As part of the Irish Agribusiness pavilion Enterprise Ireland will also be running a series of evening networking events to which customers, suppliers and interested parties will be invited to join.

Commenting on the expo, Mary Kinnane Enterprise Ireland Director for Australia/New Zealand said “Enterprise Ireland are delighted to have Emydex join other Agribusiness companies exhibiting on the Irish Agribusiness stand this year. I met with Emydex when they traveled extensively around Western and Eastern Australia this time last year, as well as both of New Zealand’s North and South Islands. Since then they now have three separate Australian meat processing plants and a distribution centre all running their Factory Floor Production control and Traceability reporting software systems with many other great opportunities in the pipeline.”

Ireland Agribusiness Stand at Fieldays 2016

Ireland Agribusiness Stand at Fieldays 2016

On the Emydex stand, Ian Carson and colleagues will have Emydex software demonstrations to hand of Emydex software systems configured specifically for the Australasian markets such as:

Abattoir System

Kill Line & Animal Payments software including:

  • The ability to record small stock EID data on the slaughter floor once this is compulsory.
  • NLIS database interface inbuilt in the system negating the need to use any 3rd party applications
  • An MLA certified eNVD solution integrated to the NLIS database and which provides the ability to create appointments from the eNVD data.
  • Flexible ‘three level’ payment grid with a second ‘fall through’ grid for animal that do not meet the criteria on the primary grid applied to the purchase.
  • Settlement schemes that automatically apply charges and rebates to supplier invoices associated with that scheme
  • A payment system that can pay Farmers (RCTI), Hobby Farmers (no GST), Agents etc.
  • AusMeat chiller assessment or a simply ‘grade only’ system

Emydex Kill line Grading Station

Boning Hall System

Packing & Processing software system module that includes:

  • Labelling of boxes, crates, packs, pallets, bins, containers
  • Input to/output from any manufacturing process
  • Process Yield Reporting
  • Control production against work orders (optional)
  • Capture and report on information by Department, Processing Line, machine /cooker / operator, lot / batch etc
  • Maintains full product traceability through processes

fieldday_packing

Emydex Packing & Weigh-Labelling Systems

Warehouse Management Systems

  • Warehouse Management System & Sales Order Processing
  • OzDocs Export Documentation
  • Inter-site Transfers
  • Inventory Stock reporting system, real-time visibility of stocks
  • Automatic stock reconciliations with Cold Stores, reducing time taken to track and reconcile external stock
  • Dual Units of Measure
  • Forwards and Backwards Traceability
  • Stock Maps – graphical queries of stock statuses
  • Handheld Scanning Application – Sales order picking & dispatch, Stock movements

Emydex Handheld Warehouse Stock Scanning

Quality Management System

  • Quality Survey Production Calendars
  • Survey Scheduler including reminders of missed, overdue or incomplete surveys
  • Survey Alerts (red, amber, yellow) via email, text or on Emydex client PCs Quality Survey Builder & Editor
  • Plant overview and location drill-down maps
  • Capture text, temperature, pictures, select from lists, Yes/No check boxes
  • Real-time data collection
  • Corrective Action Preventative Action (CAPA) workflow
  • Technical Department Document Management System
  • Real-time data retrieval of data captured by other Emydex modules installed e.g., product detail look-ups via bar-code scanning
  • Real-time data validation checks
  • Operates on both fixed position and portable data capture devices

 

Emydex on mobile devices

Emydex Quality Surveys running on mobile tablet device

Software Demonstration

To book a software demonstration, please contact Ian Carson, Emydex Australasia distributor on:
Ian Carson [email protected]
Mt Nebo, Queensland, Australia 4520
T: + 61 (7) 3289 8336
M: + 61 4566 31662

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Emydex at Foodex 2016

Emydex Technology will be exhibiting their Factory Floor Software for Meat, Fish and Food Processors at the Foodex trade show, taking place at the NEC Birmingham from 18th – 20th April 2016.

Emydex are sharing exhibition stand no. K231 with their UK Industrial hardware partner MWS Ltd Emydex attendees at the show will include:

David McMahon, CEO
James Grennan, CTO
Peter Kettell, UK Systems Manager
Jill Robinson, Marketing Manager

The team will be available to demonstrate any of Emydex’s software modules featured at the show, and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

Foodex 2016 Emydex Stand

Appointments were available for a demo at the show
Emydex Abattoir Kill line & Payments system
Emydex Packing (Weigh-labelling) System
Emydex Recipe Formulation System
Emydex Quality & Compliance System
Emydex Warehouse management System
Emydex Order Management Module
There was three equipment stations also on show

The first featured a 19”RADWAG PUE5.19 touch screen PC terminal / weight indicator, bench scale, label printer and bar code scanner (supplied by MWS). This station will be used to demonstrate the Emydex shop floor operation of the Recipe Formulation Module and also Intake against Purchase Orders. The recipe module will be configured for burger production, but can equally be used in any form food production where products are manufactured using recipes.

The second equipment station featured wireless devices such as tablet PC’s and hand held scanning terminals. These devices will be used to demonstrate the shop floor functionality of the Quality module and the Warehouse Management Module

The third equipment station featured a 15.6” RADWAG PUE5.15 Touch Screen PC Terminal / weight indicator, label printer and bench scale. This station will showcase Emydex’s latest OCM packing station software, running both with and without order processing.

Demonstrations and presentations will be available on other Emydex Food Industry software modules.

For further information on Emydex Food Processing Software please contact David McMahon in Emydex Dublin or Peter Kettell in Emydex UK, click here for contact details.

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