RitaEM
Here are 2 examples of plants I have worked for 1 big poultry processing and 1 small starch drying
Big: 15 lines processing 250,000 chickens daily from live bird to final pack
- there was a warehouse person who had a copy of the schedule (modified to know how may of what label and packaged to be ran on what line) at the start of each day (and anytime you ran out of labels) the person incharge of the label machines would go the warehouse person and get labels based on schedule and if out would have to bring an example for a new roll. These were scaned out to departments based on codes and computer based inventor system. At the end of a run or day all labels were brough back to warehouse person, wieghed (based on a know starting weight and how many are on a roll, should be close to what we used on schedule), then scanned into inventory. Any additional info was ink printed on the the labels as they went down the line. Also in production a copy of all completed labels used on your shift was attached to the back of the schedule and on the hour QA would come around and do a veryification that the label on the pack was the correct label.
Small: 3 dry packaging rooms running drums or bulk bags
- Labels for each run are pre-printed by QA office with correct lot code on drum/bag number. These are distributed to packagers only in the quantity they should produce on that shift. If they are short then must come to office for replacement and any extras must be returned and explaination given as to why. QA also does mid round label checks for lot codes and BB dates.
2 extremly different examples but some basic ideas hope I helped somehow.
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