Giró consumables: Integrated traceability in all the process

GIRO currently offers information and control system of consumables traceability than any other company in the industry can offer. A bidirectional integrated system, from raw material to the fruit bag and from the bag to the raw material, allows Giró to know which batch of raw material, which operators were involved and which productive resources have been used in the consumables that made a package that can be found at the point of sale or in the hands of the consumer. This is only possible thanks to strict reporting pro­cesses and internal control and also being the first company in the world offering the SCS (Smart Consumables System) intelligent packaging system that performs an automated reading of consumables involved in the packaging. One concern of all food operating companies is the quality control throughout the production flow and distribution chain.Traceability is a key component in the management of quality control and it should also include all the information of the packaging process and materials used therein.Once again Giró shows its ability to innovate and bring solutions to the market. Giró has been developing a traceability system integrated than any other company in the industry can cu­rrently offer. To achieve this goal it was necessary to carry out two major projects: the management of internal traceability during the production and logistics process that takes place in Giró and, secondly, to develop a method that allows packers manage adequately and automated traceability of consu­mables used for each package. Traceability in our production processGiró makes exhaustive management of internal traceability. Any raw mate­rial received in any of Giro factories in the world is immediately labeled, revised by quality laboratory and re­gistered in the ERP-SAP computer system. All subsequent steps that are made in the production process, both in making the nets as in the production of printed goods, are also recorded and coded in the system. In each check­point of the manufacturing process we use labels with barcodes and readers to record the information in the sys­tem, both in regard to semi-finished and operators involved in each task as well as industrial machinery used in every process. At the end, the finished product also conveniently identified, has been registered in the management system with all its history. The process does not end here. The product is supplied to our customers and it is also imperative that the in­formation also travel with the product, not only including those traceability data on the label but also in the do­cuments accompanying the shipment like delivery notes or invoices. Besides all this sophisticated system Giró incorporates the finished product with RFID tags that can be read by our packaging machines equipped with SCS (Smart Consumables System). Traceability in the packing plantWhen the Giró SCS consumable rea­ches the packing plant, the GirBagger machines or CA-10 can read automa­tically (without further operator in­tervention), consumables: both net as Girfilm and labels. Simply loading the reels on the machine, it takes a reading of the consumable, verifies that it is adequate to start production as it has been previously reported and records the traceability code (unique for each reel) in the GirControl Plus database. Simultaneously, during the develop­ment of packaging batch, each bag can be labeled by incorporating a tracea­bility code that generates the labeling machine, identifying packaging ma­chine and the date and time of the bag­ging. This information is also stored in the GirControl Plus database. The package is delivered to the consu­mer with a tracking code that allows the packer to know what packaging machine and when it was made. With that information it can be obtained from the GirControl Plus database all the consumables traceability codes used specifically in that bag. This in­formation allows Giró to find all the information related to production: raw materials batch used, production da­tes, industrial machinery and opera­tors involved in that shift. More informationGiró Magazine February 2015