FOODSAFE Systems, Inc.

It does not matter what industry you're in, data management in today’s global economy is paramount to successful competition. The faster a company can collect, analyze, distribute, review and asses information determines its ability to react and evolve with the world around it. FOODSAFE Systems, Inc., found three definitions that it believes fairly and comprehensively define what data management means and ultimately is.

Work that involves the planning, development, implementation, and administration of systems for the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of data.

Systematic collection, organization and analysis of data. One interprets data using a variety of methods manually or on a computer. The evaluation and the drawing of conclusions based on the analysis of the data.

—About.com (Mathematics)

The discipline which embraces the verification, coordination, validation, integration, and control of data requirements; planning for the timely.

—NavAir, Training Systems Development, US Navel Operations, US department of Defense

Our expertise has shown us time and time again that data must be used and used frequently. The FOODSAFE team of experts believes that the challenges that every QA/QC department faces are:

1. What types of data are being collected
2. The amount of data being collected
3. Systems used for data collection
4. The security of the data being collected
5. Maintaining a set of standards for data’s ongoing evaluation
6. The assessment and response to the data collected
7. The distribution of the data collected to a company’s decision makers

The use of data should be broken down into four specific use tiers:

Tier 1 – QA/QC Departmental development. While food safety and quality assurance standards my be similar in their desired outcome from plant to plant, the data presented is uniquely different from one plant to the next. These unique differences should drive how the department develops its evolutionary process for growth.

Tier 2 – Education. From great data every plant should development educational materials that reflect what the data tells it about its microbiological, physical and chemical characteristics for product and environmental food safety and quality.

Tier 3 – Strategic planning. Whatever the size of your company, a little strategic planning can go along way. Your data is the window into your plant and there is no better way to respond, grow and be successful than to use the information that is right at your finger tips. The cost and use of academia and industry consults to assist you in times of crisis or challenges to growth can be positively affected with an information system that works, is well planned and reflects what is really going on in your plant.

Tier 4 – Data Systems Execution and Monitoring. The team at FOODSAFE is the team of choice. Data evolves and so in turn do your needs and the needs of the system that manages it. Ease of integration with other legacy systems, simplified implementation and a commitment to the highest level of service will provide you with a structure that works with you.