FORTRESS Technology has announced plans to present a framework of new support services, digital tools, real-time data capture and machinery features at PPMA Total Show 2022.
The firm said that, taking lessons learned from the pandemic, it will help food processors to adapt their resources to the new landscape and build a more ‘robust, flexible and future-proof’ food safety playbook’.
Collaborating with audit specialist AIB International, Fortress revealed it has created a modular cultural food safety roadmap underpinned by a new package of digital tools to ‘engage workforces’.
The‘Food Safety Cultural Playbook’focuses on eliminating workplace hierarchies and creating a culture where everyone is a food safety custodian.
Visitors can pick and mix tools, templates and tutorial frameworks from the Fortress digital toolkit, including:
- Remote activation of Halo Digital Testing
- New digital reporting feature Contact 4.0, collecting data and overseeing the performance of Fortress metal detectors, checkweighers and combination machines connected on the same network
- GMP, foreign material control COP standards and internal inspection templates developed with AIB International
- Pre-programming of all retailer and manufacturer COPs
- Tools that track the performance of people, plant and equipment, continually monitoring and flagging hygiene, pest control and maintenance issues
- Introducing users to features that may exacerbate food contamination issues, notably setting and calibration of inspection equipment
- Blended virtual and onsite consultancy
For the first time, the Fortress service team will be on hand at PPMA to consult on how to implement these digital transformation tools, deploy the technology based on contamination risks, and ‘fast-track’ efficiency improvements.
