SafetyChain
Canvas Category Software : Information Technology : Plant Management
SafetyChain is the #1 Plant Management Platform purpose-built to improve yield, maximize productivity, and ensure compliance standards for process manufacturers. With fully integrated tools for production, safety and quality, and supplier management, our configurable cloud-based software drives real-time visibility and control to optimize performance across all of your manufacturing locations. From receiving to loadout, SafetyChain is trusted by over 1,500 facilities as their complete solution to capture, manage and analyze critical operations and continuous improvement data from anywhere, at any time, on any device.
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Bridging The Data Divide: How Egglife Foods Unified The Plant Floor With SafetyChain And Ignition
Egglife Foods, Inc. is a great example of bridging the gap between quality and machine-level data. By partnering with SafetyChain and Inductive Automation, they’ve unified plant floor data and eliminated latency between data capture, actionable insights, and results. Egglife can connect the dots between thousands of data points across the floor, so quality checks are understood alongside machine performance.
With the introduction of advanced data processing technologies, there is a lot of interest in the “last mile” analytics — the gap in analytic output and actual changes in behavior on the plant floor. A more painful challenge for most manufacturers is the first mile and the “middle miles.” These miles involve getting the data out of the plant floor’s many closed systems and machines, and connecting it with other manufacturing subsystems (human input, machine performance, quality/compliance, etc.) to generate the appropriate context for better decision-making. Anything that doesn’t allow data in or out is a closed system to avoid; this should be table stakes.
An early constraint in the journey to a connected plant floor is leveraging as many of your existing systems as possible. When it comes to solving the “first mile” problem, Inductive Automation’s web-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, Ignition, is unbeatable. Ignition supports multiple frameworks and industry protocols, connects with your existing shop-floor stack, and elevates machine data for utilization in downstream systems and processes. There is no need to look further than Ignition to open up traditionally closed systems (and without breaking the bank).
For Egglife Foods, quality assurance bore the brunt of first- and middle-mile inefficiencies, with processes still heavily dependent on a mix of paper and spreadsheets. Leveraging SafetyChain and Ignition as its food and beverage manufacturing software, they turned what was once a complex and inefficient process into an automated, agile operation capable of delivering consistent, high-quality results in real-time. VP of Operations and Supply Chain Manesh Paudel emphasizes the importance of consistency: “We’re in a business where you’re rewarded for… doing the same thing day in, day out. That is exactly why SafetyChain and Ignition are so important.”
SafetyChain Software Receives $50 Million Strategic Growth Investment from JMI Equity
SafetyChain Software, the leading cloud-based plant management software solution for manufacturers, today announced that it has received a $50 million minority growth investment from JMI Equity (“JMI”), a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software companies. With the additional capital SafetyChain will continue to advance its market leadership positions in food and beverage and consumer packaged goods while also accelerating the growth of several key expansion initiatives.
Cost of Quality: Why A Compliance-Focused Model will Ultimately Limit Growth
Process manufacturers commonly consider numerous costs like labor, materials, and manufacturing and impact their bottom line. Often the same companies will overlook or undervalue the cost of quality, assuming that products that fall within specifications also meet quality targets. However, simply relying on conformance without examining the cost of quality can result in a few hidden expenses at best-and at worst, amount to considerable waste, negatively impacting the bottom line and subtracting from brand reputation.
Understanding the overall cost of quality is vital to addressing issues that signal costly or unsustainable variations and the potential for product or process failure. High incidences of failure erode capacity and make it impossible for companies to live up to their full potential.