Symphony™: Integrated Food Processing Software Solutions

Multiple iCap stations can be integrated via Carlisle's Symphony MES (Informer). This provides central control of the product information, tare weights and labels, while collecting the data from each station for centralized reporting and traceability. Gain visibility of your production efficiency via the web-based KPI Dashboard, which shows top products, error conditions, yields, giveaways, and more…

• label design and deployment: ensure your approved labels are active on your iCap workstations
• Manage stations individually, or as part of a workgroup
• reporting via web browser - many standard reports for production, yield, efficiency, traceability
• event alerting with escalation paths, to minimize downtime
• partials support : operator with insufficient product can mark the box as a "partial", and complete filling it later
• production goal setting and monitoring: Monitor your progress towards production targets, and alert operators when the target is reached
• integrates with  inventory (Symphony WMS), so that all your production is automatically in inventory, and available to pick and ship

When you need an expanded level of traceability through complicated recipes and WIP processes, iCap/PTM can help. iCap/PTM is part of the Symphony Process Traceability Manager solution ("PTM"), which connects and co-ordinates the various production stations on your plant floor. Rather than being point solutions for weighing, labeling, and WIP tracking, these stations are part of a unified "Recipe Execution" system. A Recipe is more than a list of ingredients to Symphony. It is a series of steps that are taken to ensure that your product is built with consistent quality, including HACCP & GMP data collection. iCap/PTM is the plant floor software that follows these process steps, from mixing ingredients, taking temperatures, weighing, and even prompting operators to verify that the equipment has been cleaned. And most importantly, every process and ingredient is linked together with automatically-generated lot numbers, so you'll have full traceability. These steps can be executed on particular stations, in a prescribed order. Quality control steps can be added, such as checking temperatures, recording operator feedback, and of course measuring weights.

• automatically generate lot codes at Critical Control Points (CCPs)
• assign specific processes to an iCap station or group of iCap stations
• create and schedule batches of production that follows a specific recipe of processes and ingredients
• ensure recipes are followed within specified tolerances, or leave open for simplicity/discretion of operator
• track exceptions to the recipe (e.g. substitutions, recipe development, or approved quantity changes)
•  integrates with inventory (Symphony WMS) to deplete ingredients, packaging, add finished goods ready for shipping
• track stations, operators, process steps, inputs, output

In some scenarios, food processors need to package products according to orders (customer sales order or work orders). Using the Symphony Order Filling module, orders are co­ordinated with one or more iCap stations for fulfillment. When an order is complete, iCap notifies the operator, so that they can quickly change to another order

• Orders can be filled on one or more iCap stations simultaneously
• Labels can automatically contain order information
• Orders can originate from your external ERP system (optional)