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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

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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 ian.carson@emydex.com.au
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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Emydex partnership in Australia & New Zealand

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

After a number of years working with Enterprise Ireland to find the right partner to represent Emydex in Australasia, we are delighted to announce an Emydex partnership in Australia & New Zealand. The company recently announced it had signed contracts with BCP Pty Ltd based in Brisbane, Australia. BCP’s directors are well known within the Australasian Food Processing Industry as suppliers of Industrial hardware and software systems with a reputation built over 20 years for quality, innovation and proactive customer service.

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As the exclusive agent for reselling Emydex systems in Australia and New Zealand, Emydex now have a team of six dedicated staff based in Brisbane, as well as a network of consultants spread across Australia and New Zealand, who are providing implementation and technical support for Emydex software systems implemented in the Southern Hemisphere. The added advantage being that 24 hour support for Emydex’s existing Northern Hemisphere customers can be bolstered with assistance from the new Support team in Emydex’s Brisbane base.

BCP will add value to the Emydex software offering in the local market by providing for full turnkey solutions to Foods processors that includes all Industrial hardware requirements such as scanners, Industrial PC terminals, scales and printers etc. Heading up the Australian operation is Ian Carson, who had previously acted as Emydex’s agent in Australia and New Zealand for the past two years. Formerly CEO of Cedar Creek systems in Australia, Ian joins Emydex Australasia as company CEO. With over 20 years’ experience of working with a variety of food processing systems in Australasia, Neil Pitt will act as Director of Sales and Customer Relations.

One of Emydex’s most senior and long serving developers also moved to Brisbane in January with his family in order to oversee the initial software installation in Junee Lamb, based in New South Wales, as well as to provide customer training and helping with the upskilling of BCP programmers.

To coincide with the 2016 launch, two of Emydex’s company directors visited Australia and New Zealand for 18 days in February, and met with over a dozen meat, poultry and seafood processors, as well as Emydex partners and consultants based in WA, Victoria and Auckland.

Since the visit Emydex have signed their second customer in Australia, a beef processor based in Victoria, and are in contract negotiations with a number of other processors with a view to starting further new projects in the region.

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In January 2016, Emydex signed contracts with the largest Ostrich processor in the world based in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, a project that will see Emydex software rolled out to three Ostrich, Sheep and Game abattoir plants as well as Value added and further processing plants over the coming eight months.

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Emydex running in 4 of 6 Irish Beef processing plants granted US export licences

Ireland is currently the only EU state to have been granted access to the lucrative US meat market since the BSE crisis in the 1990’s. Since the embargo was lifted earlier this year, Beef exports from Ireland to the US have increased significantly, according to the Department of Agriculture. As of November 2015, it is estimated that 1300 tonnes of beef valued at €8.5m, has been exported from Ireland.

A spokesman for the Department of Agriculture said “This is an exceptionally strong start to this trade, considering that the first exports only went in March of this year and some of the plants were only approved for export as recently as September.”

To date only six Irish beef processing plants have managed to attain the necessary approvals to export beef to the US market.

Emydex Technology are pleased to note that four of the six plants that have succeeded in attaining the necessary Export approvals, are Irish beef processing plants that operate Emydex software on their factory floors for data capture, production and Traceability reporting.

Beef US Exporters - Dawn Meats - Charleville | Kepak - Kilbeggan | Slaney Foods International | Kepak - Longford

“It’s good news to see that trade has recommenced between Ireland and the US after 15 years of no activity. It will still take some time yet for Irish processors to restore and build new trading relationships with US customers, but given the high prices currently being experienced in the US, coupled with a demand for high-quality grass-fed beef, this bodes well for Irish supply”
David McMahon – Emydex CEO

Emydex software provides meat, fish and food processors with accurate reporting on shop floor production yields, stocks and traceability information in real-time.

“Today our software is running on over 1200 factory floor terminals as well as over 600 handheld scanners in 80 food processing plants spread across Ireland, the UK, France, Africa and Australia”

“Whether our customers have requirements for an abattoir or boning hall system, production planning or recipe control, traceability reporting or quality and compliance, we have software modules that can cater for each need.”

“As the software is modular and customisable, it means our customers can start on one particular pain point or area of the plant, and once this system is live and bedded in, the system can be extended to other areas or functions within the plant”added McMahon.

Source: The Irish Times Post by Eoin Burke-Kennedy

The Irish Times

In other related news, Northern Irish Pork Processors, Dunbia, have welcomed provisional approval for exporting pork to China. Dunbia also operate Emydex Factory Floor Software throughout their processing plants, so it comes as great news to Emydex to see that our customers are paving the way for the Irish agri-food industry, into some of the largest export markets in the world.

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Emydex partnership with with Integrated Technology Partners

Emydex Technology is pleased to announce the signing of a partnership agreement with Integrated Technology Partners (Services) Pty Ltd in Australia. Based in Brisbane, ITP Services are well known within the Australasian Food Processing Industry as suppliers of data capture and industrial hardware systems with an reputation for quality, innovation and professional customer service.

By forming this Partnership Emydex will now have six dedicated staff based in Australasia who will provide sales, implementation and support for Emydex software systems, and will add significant value to the Emydex offering in the local market by providing for full turnkey solutions. Ian Carson, Emydex’s distributor in Australia and New Zealand for the past two years will join the company as CEO, with Anthony Browne assuming the role of Technical Director. With over 20 years’ experience of working with a variety of food processing systems in Australasia, Neil Pitt will act as Director of Sales and Customer Relations.

Based in Ireland, David McMahon, CEO of Emydex Technology, commented, “We are delighted to welcome ITP Services as our new Partner in Australasia. Their excellent reputation in the market place will be complementary to the reputation Emydex enjoys in Europe for being one of the most flexible and comprehensive software suppliers to our niche market sectors. With the three senior managers of the Australian partnership having over eighty years of combined experience in the food processing industries between them, their knowledge of what customers require in the local market is a huge advantage. That, coupled with the backing of our team of thirty staff here in Ireland will guarantee our new partners ability to deliver a high level of service and support to our customers, where fast response times and extended hours are of paramount importance. I am looking forward to meeting our new customers in Australia and New Zealand in the very near future”.

Neil Pitt said “Emydex not only provides a modern, easy to use and highly flexible software solution for Food Processors but their focus on customer service fits well with what we are all about. This synergy between our two companies means that customers benefit from having local industry specialists who can respond to their needs within the time frames expected. The addition of Emydex’s comprehensive software solutions will further enhance ITP Services’ current range of systems and ensure there is a product that adds real value for processors in all areas of the food industry.”

Anyone wishing to learn more about Emydex and ITP (Services) should contact Ian Carson +61 4566 31662 or Neil Pitt +61 4027 64563.

For more information on the Emydex system click here or contact Emydex on +353 1 8855990

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