Beef Processing Software

Beef Processing

Emydex operating in over 40 Beef processing plants around the world

The Emydex processing software which is operating in over 50 Beef processing plants, is designed from the ground up to provide customers with data-capture at each required point throughout the factory. With a suite of modules from livestock bookings, receival, kill, chill, de-boning, packing and warehouse management, the Emydex software provides door to door traceability.

Some of our customers include global leading beef processors, including 6 of the top beef processors in Ireland, Western Australia’s largest beef processor, one of New Zealand’s largest beer processors and other leading beef processors in the UK, North America, and Southern Africa.

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Beef Processing

Benefits of our System

Real-Time Data Capture

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

Hide, head & offal Traceability to individual Animals

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

Beef Processing

System Features

Livestock Buyers appointments + Kill Plan & Appointments

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

Beef 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 & Reinspection

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 to the local industry jurisdiction. Emydex is able to integrate into a wide variety of approved hardware for the classification process.

This allows customers across the globe to use the Emydex application to capture the required grading attributes, including weight and any characteristics allocated prior to grading to classify their carcasses. 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 rails within the factory automatically. Alternatively, Emydex is able to print destinations to 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.

Beef Industry

Our Customers

Kepak Group

Dawn Meats

Dunbia Group

Liffey Meats

Forresters Poultry

La Rousse Foods

Danish Crown

Cranswick

Rosderra Meats

Mallon’s Foods

Brady Family

Donald’s Fine Foods

Oliver Carty

MeatCo

Botswana Meat Commission

QK Cold Stores

Klein Karoo RSA

Canadian Fishing Company

Rosie & Jim

SunPork Fresh Foods

Wilson Hellaby

O’Connor Beef

Junee Lamb

Harvey Beef

Rockabill

Clogherhead Co-op

Meliomar

Around Noon

Golden Bake

Silver Fern Farms

Open Ocean

Table Bay

Kildare Chilling

Ashbourne Meat Processors

Central Agri Group

Euro Quality Lambs

Glenmar Shellfish

Dawn Pork & Bacon

Staunton Foods

Euro Farm Foods

Greene Farm Fine Foods

Interfrigo

Castletownbere Co-op

Irish Casings

Kavanagh Meats

Kerry Foods

Nolan’s Quality Seafoods

Moy Park

Meat & More

Corries Meats

McCarren

Galway & Aran Fisherman’s Co-op

GPS Foods

QK Meats

Aquascot

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.

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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