The fragrance and flavor industry has extremely high requirements for product quality. Its products are widely used in food, daily chemicals, and many other fields. The flavor and quality stability of the products directly affect the quality of end products and consumers' experience. In the production process, links such as precise control of raw materials, strict confidentiality of formulas, accurate weighing and feeding, as well as full-process quality monitoring and traceability are all crucial. Any mistake in any link may lead to product quality problems. For example, mixing defective products into raw materials will cause deviations in product taste; formula leakage will lose market competitiveness; weighing errors will cause fluctuations in product flavor; feeding mistakes will trigger product rework, etc. Therefore, the industry is in urgent need of a complete production error-proofing system to ensure high-quality production.
Batching and feeding are core production links in the fragrance and flavor industry. In the process of manual batching and feeding, enterprises often face the following puzzles:
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A formula usually contains 20 to 30 kinds of raw materials. During batching, workers often forget to take materials, take materials repeatedly, or weigh the wrong weight.
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A formula needs to be weighed and prepared in multiple places, and during feeding, each person often feeds separately, which easily leads to wrong feeding or missed feeding.
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Data is recorded manually by workers, so its authenticity and accuracy cannot be guaranteed, and traceability is difficult.
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Mixing and batching rely on skilled workers, resulting in high labor costs.
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It is necessary to calculate the actual amount of each material that needs to be weighed and prepared according to the actual order, and then distribute it to each batching point according to the amount. The process is cumbersome, involves a lot of calculations, takes a long time, and is prone to errors.
According to the diverse batching methods of fragrance and flavor enterprises (for example, medium materials need to be prepared while walking in the warehouse, and large materials require integrated batching and feeding), MFS hardware equipment has three configurations: mobile batching workstations, fixed workstations, and intelligent instruments.
Tailored to the diverse batching methods of fragrance and flavor enterprises (such as medium materials needing to be prepared while moving in the warehouse, and large materials requiring integrated batching and feeding), the software system of MFS is perfectly aligned with the three hardware configurations to achieve intelligent management throughout the process:
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Foolproof operation design, reducing labor costs: Minimizes errors to the greatest extent, with alarm prompts triggered immediately when errors occur.
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Automatic calculation and distribution: Automatically calculates the actual weighing and batching quantity of materials based on the total task volume, and automatically matches and distributes them to target weighing points according to the set weighing range.
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Material batch information management, accurate full-process data traceability: The entire batching process is fully transparent, with the system monitoring standardized operations in real time.
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Full-process informatization, improving efficiency and avoiding errors: Eliminates errors in recording, statistics, and transmission, significantly enhancing work efficiency.
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Reserved standard ERP interface, easier expansion: Facilitates seamless integration with enterprise management systems for more flexible business expansion.
Anhui XX Food Technology Co., Ltd., formerly Nanjing XX Fragrance & Flavor Industry Co., Ltd., was founded in 1994. It is one of the large-scale domestic manufacturers specializing in food flavors, food seasonings, and daily-use flavors. The factory covers an area of 20,000 m², with a building area of 30,000 m², including a 3,000 m² office building, a 3,000 m² R&D center, and nearly 20,000 m² production workshops. The company produces and operates three major categories of products: food flavors, food seasonings, and daily-use flavors, with more than 2,000 varieties.
After using the MFS batching and feeding error-proofing system:
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Raw Material Management: Before applying the WPTEC MFS system, product taste often had obvious deviations due to raw material batch issues, causing difficulties in product quality management. After using the MFS system, through better raw material batch management and batch designation functions, such problems have been properly solved. Raw material quality has been effectively controlled, laying a solid foundation for improving product quality.
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Formula Management: Formulas are core secrets for fragrance and flavor enterprises. How to keep formulas confidential has always been a problem troubling customers. After using this system, its strict control measures are like adding a solid "safety lock" to the formulas, fully ensuring formula security. As a result, product quality has become more stable, and market competitiveness has steadily improved.
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Weighing Control: In the past, when relying on manual weighing operations, some unavoidable errors occasionally occurred, leading to fluctuations in product flavor and affecting the overall product quality. However, since the application of this system, its rigorous and standardized processes have significantly reduced potential errors in the weighing link. Product quality has become increasingly stable and reliable, winning more trust from consumers.
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Feeding Control: There was once an awkward situation where a batch of products needed to be reworked due to feeding mistakes, which not only caused resource waste but also delayed production progress. However, after adopting the WPTEC DTS system, thanks to its strict feeding control mechanism, the recurrence of wrong feeding has been effectively avoided, and product quality has been practically guaranteed. Since then, the production process has become smoother and more efficient, and similar production accidents have never occurred again.
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Production Process Monitoring and Data Traceability: Whenever receiving feedback on product quality, the company can rely on the system to quickly trace the specific points in the production process that may have problems, and then promptly take targeted improvement measures. This has effectively improved the company's management efficiency and made consumers more confident in using its products.
A foreign-funded fragrance and flavor company was founded in 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The company is mainly engaged in the production, processing, and sales of various chemical fragrances and flavors, which are widely used in industry, pharmaceuticals, food, and daily life.
After nearly 100 years of efforts, the company's products have spread all over the world. As a global supplier to super brands such as Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Marlboro, it has factories and sales outlets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Hong Kong (China), etc., with annual global sales of nearly 1 billion US dollars.
After using the MFS batching and feeding error-proofing system:
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Raw Material Management: The system is equipped with QR code identification for raw materials, enabling convenient operation, monitoring of raw material quality, and significant improvement in product quality.
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Formula Management: With a three-level management model, special personnel maintain permissions to ensure security. Authorized personnel can operate efficiently, making the products have excellent quality and strong competitiveness.
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Weighing Control: The system plans the weighing process and generates identification cards. Operations are carried out according to prompts, reducing errors, consolidating the product image, and enhancing competitive advantages.
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Feeding Control: The intelligent mechanism performs double verification, alarms when discrepancies are found, and ensures convenient operation. It guarantees accurate feeding, smooth production processes, and reshapes the corporate image.
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Production Process Monitoring and Data Traceability: With the system, the root cause of problems can be accurately traced, parameters and processes can be optimized in a timely manner, hidden dangers can be solved, and industry standards can be led.
