Assuring quality and saving time and money
Nestlé in Bursa, Turkey, has rationalized its quality control system with the aid of the statistical quality control solution (SQC) FreeWeigh.Net®. Plant manager Edgar Krappen explains how Nestlé is saving time and money with METTLER TOLEDO’s software and weighing solutions.
“Our operators were instantly able to work with the new system thanks to the highly practical and user-friendly menu in the FreeWeigh.Net® software,” says Edgar Krappen, Nestlé’s plant manager in Bursa. The PC-based Statistical Quality Control system FreeWeigh.Net® enables sample based monitoring and documentation of parameters such as net content, expiration date, visual aspects of product and packaging, taste, etc. FreeWeigh.Net® offers – among others – the following core data: Production (time period) mean value, number of violations of the legally defined tolerance limits and mean standard deviation of the production (time period). These parameters are required to fulfill legal requirements e.g. in regard to the national and international net weight legislation as well as to monitor, adjust and document all quality aspects of a product.
Practical, informative, user friendly
Mr. Edgar Krappen comments: “ Due to the very practical and user friendly menus provided by the FreeWeigh.Net® software, our operators were able to adapt to the new system immediately.“ At the test places operators weigh random samples of the various Nestlé products in a predefined interval and monitor statistical data. FreeWeigh.Net® stores and analyzes the measured values and immediately provides quality data information at all stations. Supervisors and operators can directly intervene if needed thus saving costs by avoiding unnecessary overfilling and wastage.Mr. Edgar Krappen emphasizes: “Manual documentation and reports belong to the past. Due to the Data Export module and Excel Macros supplied by BAYKON, we are now able to automatically generate the Nestlé Standard QMS forms.
Complete supplier
Following the thriving FreeWeigh.Net® project BAYKON served Nestlé with further METTLER TOLEDO weighing solutions. Four new PUA579 floor scales with lifting device made for heavy wash down procedures were successfully introduced at various places in production. Additionally, several Garvens checkweighers and over forty tank scales were installed in the production area. Mr. Edgar Krappen concludes: “BAYKON’s technical power and the experienced local team in combination with the strong METTLER TOLEDO solutions convinced us to carry on the successful partnership. The hygienically designed floor scales, the outstanding performance of the Garvens checkweighers and the unrivalled precision of the METTLER TOLEDO tank scale solutions stand for it.”