Press Release:
August 15, 2007
Webcast: How to Maximize Food Safety and Quality and Reduce Risks
Portland, OR—From ground beef to spinach, we have seen the huge downside of supply chain safety and quality failures. Food processors are faced with the continuing challenges of maximizing food safety while reducing production costs by improving throughput, product yields, and process efficiencies. One effective strategy is to improve the performance of the supply chain.
Jeff Cawley and Dr. John Surak presented the symposium, "Guarantee Your Success, Don’t Just Document Failure, How to use SPC to manage your supply chain to maximize food safety, quality and profit while reducing risk" at the March 2007 Food Safety Summit in Washington DC. Many customers now mandate their suppliers implement Statistical Process Control (SPC) programs. These programs provide the results of improved food quality and safety while decreasing purchasing costs.
Suppliers and customers will not see financial benefits from SPC implementation, if the suppliers feel that all they are required to do is to ship control charts and histograms with the raw product. However, all members of the supply chain can receive large financial and risk reduction benefits if the suppliers actively embrace SPC. The presentation examined how simple SPC tools provide the means to develop a detailed understanding of process performance. Case studies demonstrated the role of SPC and Process Capability Analysis to select and certify vendors, monitor lot acceptance and improve food safety performance.
The webcast and slides are available here:
About Northwest Analytical
Northwest Analytical (NWA) is the world’s leading provider of SPC software, with more than 50,000 licenses shipped to over 5,000 companies, worldwide. NWA is the global SPC standard for worldwide corporations such as Crown Cork & Seal, Huhtamaki and Unilever. NWA software is recognized for its power, ease-of-use and its simple, tight integration with other manufacturing systems. The NWA SPC software suite includes products such as NWA Quality Analyst®, NWA Quality Analyst WebServer®, NWA Quality Monitor® and NWA Quality Information Server™ for manufacturing analytics, plant-floor quality data collection and monitoring, SPC charting, enterprise reporting, and real-time, embedded SPC.
For further information, contact:
Jeffery Cawley, VP Market Development,
Northwest Analytical, Inc.
jcawley@nwasoft.com
888-692-7638 or 503-224-7727
www.nwasoft.com.
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