Pork Processing

Emydex supply Factory Floor software systems to the Top 4 Primal Pork Processors in Ireland, accounting for 93% market share

Pork Processing Software

Emydex Pork Processing Software is currently operating in over 20 Pork processing plants and offers a complete solution for all sectors of the pork processing industry, including abattoir, cutting plant, curing plant or retail packing plant.

Emydex are the Market Leading supplier of factory floor software systems to Pigmeat Processors in Ireland. Designed to cater for both single plant and multi-plant operations, our Pigmeat customers include the Top 4 primal processors, that between them account for 93% of all Pork primal processing in Ireland including Rosderra Irish Meats (4 sites), Dawn Pork & Bacon, Stauntons and Kepak McCarren's.

Other Pork processing customers include Market-leading Value-added and Cooked meats processors such as Oliver Carty (Bacon & Hams), Dunbia (Ballymena) and Greene Farm Foods (Sliced Hams).

Oliver Carty

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Pork Processing

Benefits of our System

Real-Time Data Capture

Real-Time reporting + dashboard to monitor KPI’s & throughput

Animal Welfare checks and procedures

Automatic or Manual Grading

Integration to PLC’s to improve efficiency & reduce labour

User intuitive interface

Alerts and Notifications

Country & Customer labelling compliance

Forwards & Backwards traceability inherent

Software Modules to cover processing from livestock appointments through to warehouse management and everything in between

Pork Processing

System Features

Livestock Buyer Appointments

Ability to capture livestock booking appointments directly into Emydex system which then allows for livestock planning against the forecast for different livestock categories.

Delivery & Pen Management

Receive livestock deliveries with or without appointments and allow lairage staff to capture delivery details such as transport information, government information, dead on arrival, suspect etc. The Delivery process caters for RFID ear tags, passports and integrates with the countries national livestock databases such as AIMS, ScotEID, NLIS, NAIT, CCIA.

Sequencing

Sequencing can be based using lots and/or using individual animal records. Increase operator efficiency and accuracy with the ability to use RFID wands or barcode scanners to sequence the animal with inbuilt and customisable validations. This can be extended to include live weight reading, blood collection and stun data capture.

VET Inspections

Emydex VET inspection functionality allows customers to capture VET defects in realtime. With the ability to capture, carcass, offal and head inspections.

Faults are flagged as a producer or factory faults which feed can into Emydex animal payments.

Classification & Grading

The Emydex kill line has market-specific classification processes to cater for the local industry jurisdiction. This allows customers across the globe to classify their carcasses using the factory floor terminal to capture the required grading attributes, including weight and any characteristics allocated prior to grading. This will then create carcass inventory and allocate the carcass to a destination.

Animal Payments

The Emydex animal payments system allows customers to use the data captured to complete farmer settlements against kill lots. Emydex Animal payments system is able to cater for Farmer settlements, Service Kill and Sale Yard settlements. Within each payment, customers can allocate various adjustments based on the grading information, buying agent commissions, and use configurable price grids to complete the payment for a lot.

Chiller Management

Emydex is able to integrate directly to PLC’s to manage sortation of carcasses to chillers and/or rail locations within the factories automatically. Alternatively, Emydex are able to print chiller destinations on carcass tickets to improve chiller operators ability to sort accurately. This assists with the chiller callout to make the de-boning process more efficient. Emydex are also able to complete chiller regrading including, marbling, meat colour, PH decline carcass shrinkage.

Into Boning/BRI/Scan to Bone

Emydex Into Boning functionality allows customers to create into boning work orders which are then issued to the factory floor. Customers are able to utilise the Emydex carcass filter rules which validate carcass input against a configurable criteria matrix. The Emydex application can capture the exact cold weight of the carcass as it passes over the scale which allows customers to report on carcass shrinkage/loss. These transactions are also used as the input for Yield Reporting.

Packing & Processing

The Emydex packing and processing module allows customers to manage all aspects of their packing process which includes the ability to execute pack/case/pallet labelling, pack to sales orders or direct to stock. Emydex is also able to integrate to Automatic weigh price labelling (WPL) machines to control master data, batch runs and machine statistics which allows for real-time reporting within the Emydex application

Designed for your industry

Our software modules

The Emydex suite of software includes a collection of independent standalone software modules designed to manage and control a particular stage of the Food Production Process e.g. Kill Line & Payments.

Each modules sits on top of the core platform, and can plug seamlessly into any other module. The full suite of modules cover all aspects of Food production from factory door-to-door.

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