METTLER TOLEDO
 

Klantspecifieke kaasproducten vragen om integrale kwaliteitscontrole.

Het leveren va kaasproducten van e juiste kwaliteit staat centraal bij Kaas-Pack, een Nederlandse specialist in kaasproducten op bestelling. Met  FreeWeigh.Net®, Het kwaliteitscontrolesysteem van METTLER TOLEDO verzekert Kaas-Pack zich van de juiste verpakkingsinhoud en de optimale houdbaarheid door correcte metingen van de beschermende atmosfeer.
In Hoogeveen (Netherlands) Kaas-Pack Holland specializes in customized production and delivery of cheese products. From slices to sticks and from grated cheese to cubes, they deliver it all. In fact, the type of cheese is unlimited too: Gouda, Edam, Mozarella, Cheddar, Emmental and many other types of cheese are delivered to the wholesale and food processing industry– 90 % of it is exported. For instance, Kaas- Pack’s products are used for sandwiches, pizza’s and pasta’s, sauces, snacks, fast food and other convenience food products.

Tailormade production

All products are tailor-made to customer specifications. The incoming cheese is directly transported to the grate drums and the various cutting machines and the processed cheese packed under protected environment for optimum shelf life.

Guaranteed tracability
“Our ERP system enables us to control every operation step optimally”, clarifies the plant Manager Mr. Koekoek; “from purchasing raw materials to shipping.” In this way, traceability is guaranteed from beginning to end and a total process lead time of three days can be achieved.

Constant overview over production quality

During the process, several quality inspections take place. Potential metal contaminations are checked with the use of METTLER TOLEDO’s Safeline® metal detectors and the quality of the pre-packed products will be constantly measured with the Statistical Quality Controlsystem FreeWeigh.Net®. This software monitors on random base the net content and the remainder of oxygen in the selected bag. In addition the packages are tested for leakage.

Fixed testing procedures
A fixed number of prepackages go through a series of random quality checks at regular intervals. First, the product data is entered with barcode scanners on the METTLER TOLEDO FreeWeigh.Net® workstation, after which the packages are weighed on a Weights and Measures approved BBK462 15 kg × 0.5 g scale. Then leakage tests are performed by means of a PBI-Dansensor leak testing system. Since all mentioned equipment is connected to the FreeWeigh.Net® system, a compact and efficient quality procedure is achieved for all pre-packed products. The information is directly processed and production process can be immediately adjusted, resulting in less over- and underfilling, thus preventing any legal and customer complaints.

Integrated into Kaas-Pack’s ERP System
Finally, the results are automatically stored and analyzed for the Quality Management system of Kaas-Pack and presented in customizable charts and graphs. This results in huge savings by streamlining internal quality assurance procedures. The connection to Kaas-Pack’s ERP system provides total overview on several workstations in production and in the office. Mr. Koekoek concludes: ’With the well-equipped quality control system and the clear procedures we efficiently meet the quality requirements that our customers impose and deliver the quality that they expect from us.’