• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • New Zealand
    • Europe
    • Australia
    • Africa
    • The Americas

Search

Careers Contact Downloads |
  • About Us
    • Our History
    • Why Emydex
    • Our Team
    • Support
    • Video
  • Software
    • General
      • Systems Integration
      • Traceability Reporting
      • Quality & Compliance
      • Emydex BI
    • Primary Processing
      • Procurement & Transportation
      • Kill Line Software
      • Animal Payments
    • Secondary Processing
      • Carcass Management
      • Packing & Processing
      • Production Planning
      • Yields & Costings
    • Further Processing
      • Recipe Formulation
    • Warehouse & Distribution
      • Warehouse Management
  • Your Industry
    • Beef
    • Lamb
    • Pork
    • Poultry
    • Fish and Seafood
    • Fresh Produce
    • Further
    • Cold Storage
    • Other Processing
    • Your Role
      • Production Managers
      • Finance Managers
      • I.T. Systems Manager
      • Quality & Compliance
      • Warehouse Management
  • Customers
  • Our Markets
    • Africa
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Ireland & Europe
    • The Americas
  • News
  • New Zealand
    • Europe
    • Australia
    • Africa
    • The Americas

Emydex

Food Processing Software Solutions

  • About Us
    • Our History
    • Why Emydex
    • Our Team
    • Support
    • Video
  • Software
    • General
      • Systems Integration
      • Traceability Reporting
      • Quality & Compliance
      • Emydex BI
    • Primary Processing
      • Procurement & Transportation
      • Kill Line Software
      • Animal Payments
    • Secondary Processing
      • Carcass Management
      • Packing & Processing
      • Production Planning
      • Yields & Costings
    • Further Processing
      • Recipe Formulation
    • Warehouse & Distribution
      • Warehouse Management
  • Your Industry
    • Beef
    • Lamb
    • Pork
    • Poultry
    • Fish and Seafood
    • Fresh Produce
    • Further
    • Cold Storage
    • Other Processing
    • Your Role
      • Production Managers
      • Finance Managers
      • I.T. Systems Manager
      • Quality & Compliance
      • Warehouse Management
  • Customers
  • Our Markets
    • Africa
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Ireland & Europe
    • The Americas
  • News
  • New Zealand
    • Europe
    • Australia
    • Africa
    • The Americas
  • About Us
    • Our History
    • Why Emydex
    • Our Team
    • Support
    • Video
  • Software
    • General
      • Systems Integration
      • Traceability Reporting
      • Quality & Compliance
      • Emydex BI
    • Primary Processing
      • Procurement & Transportation
      • Kill Line Software
      • Animal Payments
    • Secondary Processing
      • Carcass Management
      • Packing & Processing
      • Production Planning
      • Yields & Costings
    • Further Processing
      • Recipe Formulation
    • Warehouse & Distribution
      • Warehouse Management
  • Your Industry
    • Beef
    • Lamb
    • Pork
    • Poultry
    • Fish and Seafood
    • Fresh Produce
    • Further
    • Cold Storage
    • Other Processing
    • Your Role
      • Production Managers
      • Finance Managers
      • I.T. Systems Manager
      • Quality & Compliance
      • Warehouse Management
  • Customers
  • Our Markets
    • Africa
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Ireland & Europe
    • The Americas
  • News
  • New Zealand
    • Europe
    • Australia
    • Africa
    • The Americas

Australasia

Home / Archives for Markets / Australasia

Emydex Software: A Game-Changer for Beef Processors

30 May 2024

Emydex, a leading provider of software solutions for the meat processing industry, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024.

For over two decades, Emydex Beef Processing Software has been transforming how leading meat processors operate across the globe. Trusted by industry leaders like Dawn Meats, Central Agri Group, and Ashbourne Meats, Emydex delivers robust, adaptable solutions that improve efficiency, traceability, and productivity throughout the beef supply chain.

Ashbourne Meats in Ireland, an Emydex customer for eight years, praised the Emydex team for their reliability, friendliness, and professionalism. Donal Houlihan, Operations Manager, said, “The Emydex team have an excellent understanding of the Meat Industry. The system is extremely user-friendly, allowing a smooth working environment across all our production lines. Their technology constantly meets our needs in an ever-evolving industry.” read full story.

 

Central Agri Group in Victoria, Australia, has been an Emydex customer for eight years. The Managing Director, Rami Koyu, commended Emydex for its smooth rollout and the positive response from operators. He said, “The Emydex roll-out was one of the smoothest IT system rollouts I have ever been involved in.” read full story.

 

Dawn Meats Group in Ireland, an Emydex customer for twenty years, praised Emydex for its agility. Shane Slattery, Group CIO, said, “For twenty years, Dawn Meats and Emydex have been in a symbiotic partnership, during which time the Emydex solutions have been able to be quickly adapted to changes within both our industry and business.” read full story.

 

Eurofarm Foods in Ireland, an Emydex customer for fourteen years, commended Emydex for its ‘can-do’ attitude as well as excellent helpdesk support. Ciaran Boyle, General Manager, said, “More recently, Emydex were also there to support our business in the immediate aftermath of a cyber-attack on the business in Sept 2021. This was a phenomenal result to say the least.” read full story.

 

Harvey Beef in Western Australia, an Emydex customer for nine years, praised the Emydex team for their willingness to understand their problems and look at solutions. Mike Stephenson, Head of Technology, said, “The team are great to work with and always willing to understand our problems and look at solutions to improve the way our Emydex is integrated with our business.” read full story.

 

Kepak Group in Ireland & UK, an Emydex customer for seventeen years, commended Emydex for its support in their business growth. Jeremy O’Callaghan, Group CIO, said, “Emydex has been an integral part of the system delivery team for Kepak Group for almost two decades, supporting us in our business growth across multiple sites in both Ireland and the UK.” read full story.

 

Liffey Meats in Ireland, a customer operating Emydex in two of its plants, commended Emydex for its ‘can-do’ attitude. Derek McDermott, Chief Financial Officer, said, “Having worked with Dave and his team for the past fourteen years, I can say the key difference with Emydex is their ‘can do’ attitude.” read full story.

 

MeatCo Namibia, an Emydex customer in Southern Africa for thirteen years, praised Emydex for its fit-for-purpose product. Grant Mitchell, IT Manager: Production Systems, said, “Emydex is a Fit for Purpose product, which complements our Business.” read full story.

 

Silver Fern Farms, operating fourteen plants in New Zealand, has been an Emydex customer for four years, currently operating Emydex in two of its plants with further plant rollouts in progress. Matt Ballard, Chief Transformation Officer, highlighted Emydex’s ability to provide greater traceability and process controls, saying, “Emydex has shown it can provide greater traceability and process controls that are positive in meeting Silver Fern Farms needs over the longer term.” read full story.

 

Wilson Hellaby Ltd, with two plants in New Zealand, has been an Emydex customer for three years. Justin Lee, Chief Financial Officer, commended Emydex’s innovative approach to software development, saying, “In both instances, we were able to employ Emydex’s innovative approach to software development to solve challenges within our industry where off-the-shelf solutions just don’t exist.” read full story.

 

These testimonials from just ten of Emydex’s global beef customers highlight the significant benefits that Emydex software brings to beef processors, including smooth rollouts, greater traceability, innovative solutions, and excellent support. These customers have been working with Emydex for 119 years collectively across 36 plants.

Over the past two years, a dedicated team at Emydex HQ in Dublin, Ireland, has collaborated with numerous longstanding beef processing customers to develop a new Industry Standard software solution for the Beef Processing industry. This Vexillum (Latin for ‘Standard’) project aims to create a comprehensive, ready-to-use Manufacturing Execution System (MES) tailored for beef processors. The initial rollout of this system will be undertaken by four Emydex beef processing customers, deploying it across more than 20 beef primary processing facilities in Ireland and the UK.

As Emydex celebrates its 20th anniversary, it looks forward to continuing to provide top-notch solutions for the beef processing industry.

If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America.

Request a Demo

Filed Under: Africa, Australasia, Beef, Carcass Management, Customer News, Europe, Kill Line & Settlements, Markets, North America, Packing Management, Traceability Reporting, Warehouse Management, Yields & Costings

Emydex is 20 Years in Business today

26 April 2024

Emydex 20 Year Anniversary

Emydex Technology is celebrating 20 incredible years in business TODAY on 26th April 2024

Emydex 20 years on, we’re proud to celebrate two decades of innovation, growth, and global impact.

Since our inception in April 2004, we’ve been committed to revolutionising the food processing industry with our cutting-edge software.

From our humble beginnings in Damastown in 2004, to becoming a global leader and partner of choice in MES software solutions for the food processing sector, it’s been a fulfilling journey filled with challenges, triumphs, and memories.

Emydex 20 Year Anniversary
Emydex 20 Years

Join us in looking back on our Emydex journey with a short photo summary of our company’s evolution over the past 20 years.

View our Emydex Journey

We owe our success to our dedicated team, whose hard work and passion have been the driving force behind every achievement. Thank you for your unwavering dedication and commitment to excellence. None of this would have been possible without the loyalty and support of our valued customers, the majority of whom have worked with Emydex for the past decade, and for many others longer.

Please read in our news section what 20 of our longest-serving customers have to say about Emydex having reached our 20-year milestone.

Join us in celebrating 20 years of Emydex Technology and here’s to the next 20 years of innovation, growth, and success!

If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America

Request a Demo

Filed Under: Africa, Australasia, Company Updates, Europe, Markets, North America, Press/Media, Uncategorized @nz

Emydex at IPPE Atlanta

2 February 2024

Emydex exhibit at IPPE in
Atlanta, Georgia

Emydex showcased our innovative factory floor software solutions for poultry processors at the #IPPE trade show held in Atlanta, Georgia from Jan 30th to February 2nd 2024.

Renowned as the largest trade show event of its kind globally, IPPE 2024 proved to be an unparalleled experience from any previous trade show Emydex has attended. This was Emydex’s first time exhibiting on the highly impressive BAADER booth and we express our gratitude to Oliver Hahn, CEO of BAADER Food Systems USA, for his invaluable support in facilitating our involvement.

Additionally, we extend our sincere appreciation to the global BAADER team for bringing their customers to discuss how their processes can be improved with our proven technology.

Watch the video below summarising our highlights and reflections at the show.

If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America

Request a Demo

Filed Under: Africa, Australasia, Company Updates, Europe, Markets, North America, Press/Media, Uncategorized @nz

Emydex’s Cutting-Edge Technology for Sheep tracking with NLIS.

11 September 2023

Emydex’s Cutting-Edge Technology for Sheep tracking with NLIS.

Following Victoria’s introduction of RFID ear tags for sheep and the requirement for all sheep to be registered in the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) the other Australian states have now also mandated this with most requiring the system to be in place by January 2025.

Emydex is well-positioned to be able to assist processors in implementing the system in a cost-effective and efficient way. Having had a system in place from the very first Emydex beef implementation eight years ago and subsequently with a sheep processor in Victoria, the standard livestock processing system can interface with RFID ear tag readers in the yards as well as on the processing floor.

Livestock can be scanned in the yards as it is unloaded via RFID panel readers connected to an Emydex delivery terminal. This station can record the delivery information such as the vehicle details, NVD number, animal numbers delivered, welfare issues and stock conditions such as wool pull. This data not only updates the delivery information but also uploads the ear tag data to the NLIS database to perform a ‘transfer holdings’ to the abattoir PIC. At this time, any alerts or warnings for the delivered stock are downloaded to the Emydex system.

Similarly, checking of the RFID on the processing line can raise any issues to the processing staff by checking the NLIS database in real-time and triggering alerts to the processing staff. The stations that read the RFID data can be stand-alone, non-manned stations or can be used to collect other information such as stun data (voltage, duration, rise time), sex and dentition, manual ear tags, animal health and weights thereby maximising the utilisation of such stations and enhancing the information collected on the line for later reporting.

 

Example Processing Line NLIS station.

Emydex-Processing Line NLIS station

The NLIS data is uploaded to the NLIS database either on an individual animal or lot basis thereby meeting the processor's statutory requirements whilst enhancing the efficiency and data collection on the processing line itself.

 

Emydex NLIS Interface Management Screen

Emydex NLIS Interface Management Screen

The Emydex kill line solution provides a comprehensive solution for the management and processing of livestock from procurement to payment and can be a simple, one-station grading station to sophisticated RFID gambrel tracking solutions processing many carcasses per minute.

If you want to learn more – contact Emydex in any of our global market offices in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or North America

Request a Demo

Filed Under: Australasia, Product News, Uncategorized @nz

Emydex Tour of Australia and New Zealand

13 March 2023

A lot of ground was covered by Emydex in Australia and New Zealand over three weeks in February and March, visiting both customers and prospects in Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and North & South Islands in New Zealand

 

It was great for Emydex CEO David McMahon to finally (post covid) meet and get to know all our fifteen hard-working Emydex employees working around Perth, Brisbane, Auckland, and Christchurch.

Week 1 of the trip centred around Emydex customer meetings in Western Australia (Harvey Beef, WAMMCO), Victoria (O’Connor Beef, Central Agri group), Wagga Wagga (Junee Lamb), finishing up in Sydney on Friday for a series of meetings with prospective customers. This gave Emydex CEO David McMahon and Emydex GM for Australasia, Jeffrey Macer-Wright, time on Saturday morning to take in some of the sights of Sydney via a running tour, before heading on to Auckland over the weekend.

 

A statue of Sir Thomas Mort in Sydney Harbour, founder of Emydex customer, Mort & Co
Centre: A statue of Sir Thomas Mort in Sydney Harbour, founder of Emydex customer, Mort & Co

 

Week 2 focussed on customer and prospect meetings in the North and South Islands in New Zealand. In New Zealand, Jeffrey and David met up with Ian Carson, as well as five Emydex NZ employees working around Auckland on North Island, and Christchurch on the South Island. Emydex staff travelled from their WFH locations to attend deferred Emydex Christmas parties in Auckland and Christchurch.

Customer visits included Wilson Hellaby, North Island, as well as visiting Christchurch to see Emydex in action in the Silver Ferns Beef primal processing plant in Belfast. The latter half of the week was spent in Dunedin for a series of meetings in Silver Fern Farms' head office, as well as meetings with prospects, and a potential partner company, Scott Technology.

 

Left: Wilson Hellaby, Auckland. Centre: SFF, Belfast, Christchurch. Right: SFF HQ, Dunedin

Left: Wilson Hellaby, Auckland. Centre: SFF, Belfast, Christchurch. Right: SFF HQ, Dunedin

 

Week 3 was spent mainly in Queensland, Australia, where Emydex has an office supporting our ten staff in South Brisbane in the city centre. Customer meetings were held over two days, with Mort & Co at their head office in Toowoomba, followed by a visit to see one of their feedlots in operation at Grassdale. In addition, a visit to see one of Mort & Cos supplier factories. Scheduling challenges meant the team had to settle for a virtual call with Emydex customer Sunpork, based in Eagle Farm, close to our Brisbane office. The remainder of the week included several prospective customer meetings in both Queensland and Victoria. The week ended with Birthday celebrations for long-serving Emydex employee Carl Brennan, a Lead Solutions Engineer with Emydex for over 10 years, who last year permanently relocated with his family from Ireland to Brisbane.

 

Left: most of the Emydex Brisbane office team. Centre: Grassdale feedlot. Right: Carl Brennan

Left: most of the Emydex Brisbane office team. Centre: Grassdale feedlot. Right: Carl Brennan

 

Overall, the three-week trip included nine customer meetings, as well as nine prospective customer meetings, and culminated with a visit by Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine of Ireland, Jane Connolly, Ambassador of Ireland to New Zealand, and a delegation from Enterprise Ireland to see Emydex in action in the Silver Fern Farms Ltd primary beef processing plant in Belfast, Christchurch.

 

L-R: Dylan Marsh, STREAMLINE Lead, Silver Fern Farms; Mary Kinnane, APAC Director Enterprise Ireland; Brendan Gleeson, the Secretary General in the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Matt Ballard, Chief Transformation Officer, Silver Fern Farms; Charlie McConalogue T.D, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of Ireland; H.E. Jane Connolly, Ambassador of Ireland to New Zealand; Jeffrey Macer-Wright, General Manager, Emydex Australasia; Niall Casey, Enterprise Ireland

L-R: Dylan Marsh, STREAMLINE Lead, Silver Fern Farms; Mary Kinnane, APAC Director Enterprise Ireland; Brendan Gleeson, the Secretary-General in the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Matt Ballard, Chief Transformation Officer, Silver Fern Farms; Charlie McConalogue T.D, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of Ireland; H.E. Jane Connolly, Ambassador of Ireland to New Zealand; Jeffrey Macer-Wright, General Manager, Emydex Australasia; Niall Casey, Enterprise Ireland

 

Emydex’s Technical Director, James Grennan will travel out to Australia and New Zealand in April for a series of technical workshops with Emydex customers.

Both David and James will return to Australia in July when Emydex will be exhibiting at the foodpro trade show in Melbourne from 23-26 July

Request a Demo

Filed Under: Australasia, Company Updates, Uncategorized @nz

Emydex Update from Down Under

1 February 2023

Feb 2023

2023 is shaping up to be a busy year for Emydex in this part of the world (Australasia), with the roll-out of Beef & Pork processing systems in New Zealand, several animal payments systems, as well as a first-time implementation of an export sales management system for a large feed lotting customer in Australia

 

Beef Processing System

Emydex Team NZ is working with one of our group beef processing customers to roll out their ‘group standard’ Emydex slaughter floor solution, to all their other beef plants in New Zealand over the next nine months. In addition, a second Emydex team is busy commissioning an Emydex solution for their first secondary butchery (boning) room. To meet this ambitious target, our 15-person strong Emydex team working in New Zealand and Australia will support both projects.

Animal Payments System

Also, in the first quarter of this year, another Emydex meat processor in New Zealand will go live with an Emydex Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for their pork processing plant, as well as commission our newly updated Central Animal Payments System (CAPS). Being multi-species in its design, it will be possible to quickly roll out this Payments system to the other divisions within the company once the pork plant goes live.

Export Sales Management System

Crossing the Tasman Sea, in Australia Emydex will commission a new Export Sales Management and Central Animal Payments System (CAPS) for beef payments for a new Emydex customer in Queensland, which is Australia’s largest privately-owned beef cattle lot feeding company.  This new customer does not own any processing facilities directly, so their entire marketing and inventory management system is managed via data sent from third-party toll processors and logistics companies. The company expects to see a marked improvement in the efficiency of sales activities as well as providing visibility and traceability of their inventory from production plant to customer. Emydex will provide a strong and flexible platform to support the raid growth planned for this year.

Emerging Trends

Emydex are seeing more integration of labour-saving systems with the surfacing of data not traditionally made available to support the production staff processes. This includes data from items such as refrigeration, X-ray carcase grading systems, automated storage and retrieval units, stunning data on the kill floor, IoT devices etc. All of this is collected via a module known as the Data Communications Interface (DCI) module in the Emydex MES, and is integrated and used to support the manufacturing process and is surfaced by the MES via the inbuilt Emydex Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tool. This functionality supports the implementation of Industry 4.0 to provide a ‘whole of life’ view of the production process and to identify efficiencies and compliance issues within the production systems.

CEO Visit

Emydex Australasia is delighted to welcome our group CEO, David McMahon, back to these shores after an absence of several years due to Covid. Dave will be visiting existing customers in Western Australia, Victoria, NSW, and Queensland as well as North and South islands in New Zealand. In addition, meeting up with Emydex staff dotted across both countries, many working remotely from home, hired during the pandemic. Dave is also scheduled to meet several new companies interested in learning more about Emydex. If any readers of this newsletter are interested in learning more about Emydex or even catching up on some of the new directions and processes that are emerging in Europe, we would be more than happy to arrange a meeting whilst he is here. Please reach out to ian.carson@emydex.com. 

Lamb Processing System

As the year progresses, another Emydex customer will be moving into the implementation phase of their Emydex lamb processing system, rolling out to their two Australian-based sheep processing plants in WA and NSW. Other Emydex customers will continue to implement new modules to support their existing processes whether they be web portals for farmer livestock bookings and feedback, automated chiller sortation, integration to automated labelling systems or the integration of order and stock management functions in Emydex to automated storage and retrieval systems. All these projects will deliver considerable labour savings, which considering the current labour shortages in the industry, will bring rapid payback and efficiencies to those who are embarked upon these projects.

For any information on any of the projects outlined above, please email sales@emydex.com for more information.

Request a Demo

Filed Under: Australasia, Company Updates, Uncategorized @nz

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 8
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Footer

Links

Privacy Statement

Terms of Use

Careers

Downloads

Your Business

Software

Modules

Job Roles

Industries

Our Markets

Ireland & EU

Australasia

Africa

The Americas

Newsletter

Find out more about us and what we can do for your business

Error: Contact form not found.

Emydex Processing Software Solutions © 2026 | Website designed by Giant Elk Creative

loading

Please wait while you are redirected to your nearest Emydex Region page...

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website