From manual work to a fully digitized lab

Crop Alliance, a leading manufacturer in the food industry, wanted a QMS that allowed them to digitize registrations and make documents accessible throughout the organization. They chose AlisQI because the system could be tailored based on their needs and allowed them to link together registrations, documentation, audits, and follow-up actions. The biggest change after implementation has been digitizing the entire laboratory process.

The results: accessible data, clear overviews, and enhanced control due to actions that are clearly recorded and trackable. The smart QMS saves a lot of time and helps the organization calculate recipes, adjust dosing equipment and work more accurately and efficiently.

Before implementing AlisQI, the team at Crop Alliance needed to calculate recipes manually and measure often to ensure accuracy. This was not only time-consuming, but also made it difficult to perform statistics and maintain clear overviews. A smart QMS was sure to solve these issues by automating routine tasks.

Producing over 300 recipes for vegetables preserved in vinegar or brine, Crop Alliance collects a vast amount of data. But learning from this data was both difficult and time-consuming. Recipes were calculated manually based on set specifications, and several tests needed to be performed to develop a consistent preserving solution. It was even more challenging to draw insights into how recipes needed to be adjusted.

The switch to AlisQI made it much easier for the organization to calculate recipes, perform measurements, and make more informed decisions about recipes that needed adjustments. ‘With the help of AlisQI, we have gained insight into how the target value of each recipe relates in practice to the theoretically determined target value. Based on these findings, we are currently adjusting our dosing equipment so that we can work more accurately and efficiently.’, Martijn explains.

When the company chose AlisQI, they were already using Microsoft Dynamics NAV as their ERP. But that didn’t represent a challenge since almost every ERP system can be connected to the AlisQI platform. The two systems have been easily linked together.

After the transformation with AlisQI, Crop Alliance enjoys a paperless, fully digitized laboratory and data that is accessible to whoever needs it. The next step in their digital journey involves extending the role of automation ‘Measurements are currently carried out in the laboratory, on the basis of which the operators receive a dosing order for additives.