ProdX™ Food Safety and Quality Management Software
Maximizing Operational Efficiency Through Digitalization
ProdX™ is a complete quality inspection data management system that delivers full digital management of your product inspection equipment for real-time monitoring and food safety compliance.
Keep Pace With the Digital Evolution of Food Safety Requirements
ProdX™ is a dynamic food safety software solution that's seamlessly scalable from single site device installations to multiple devices in globally diverse site locations. It's designed to support rigorous quality control procedures and manage:
- Production and efficiency
- Quality and compliance
- Data communication
Try Before You Buy - 60-Day Free Trial
Request a free trial of ProdX™ to have one of our engineers review your equipment to see if it’s compatible for a ProdX™ installation.
Learn more about how the software integrates with your equipment, and discover the benefits it can bring to your business before you invest.
Benefits of ProdX™ Inspection Data Management Software
An advanced QMS software for the food industry supporting Industry 4.0 Smart Factories.
ProdX™ saves labor costs by automatically collecting production data and publishing reports within seconds. Investing in ProdX™ now means any costs upfront can be offset in just a few months to a year. You can gain:
- Higher data visibility and improved control
- Improved efficiency and productivity
- Full lifecycle support
Enhanced Security and Functionality
Prepare for connectivity to the latest data-protective Blockchain technology:
- Central User Management – provides individual access rights and roles for specific users or groups
- Data Reliability – inspection data is stored on a tamper-proof central server which can be hosted on-site or in a data center
- Traceability – all data can be traced back to a single device, product, batch or user
Data and Documentation for Quality Managers
ProdX™ food quality management software records inspection data from multiple product inspection technologies to completely log and document all events and actions, offering:
- Immediate access to data, demonstrating compliance with national and international laws/standards
- Support for the fulfillment of retailer audits
- Enablement of quicker and more targeted reactions to quality incidents
- Reduced manual effort to document quality incidents and take remedial actions
- Simplified and faster collection and compilation of data from multiple production line systems
Access Your Data from Anywhere, at Anytime
Access the full functionality of ProdX™ remotely, using your standard company secure connection:
- Monitor the health and status of your inspection devices in real-time
- Receive immediate notifications on all events
- Administer all settings
- Generate and view all reports and incident logs
- Set up notifications to send emails or alerts to your mobile device if there is a quality or production issue that requires immediate attention
Software Care - Service and Support Package
| Software Care Standard | Software Care Comprehensive | |
| Software Evolution Notification of and access to new software releases within the purchased license deck | X | X |
| Deploy Software Remotely Electronic deployment of new software releases | X | X |
| Support Software Remotely Technical assistance via remote methods, like telephone, email or remote connection | X | X |
| Deploy Software Onsite On-site installation of a new software release by a METTLER TOLEDO field service technician | — | X |
| Repair Software Onsite On-site support to solve problems or technical issues | — | X |
Software Care gives you peace of mind that ProdX™ is always up-to-date to meet the ever-changing compliance, production and IT landscape requirements. It ensures the quickest reaction times from our dedicated pool of software specialists to ensure the optimal system performance at all times.
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FAQs
What does quality management software do?
ProdX™ Software by METTLER TOLEDO automatically records product inspection equipment testing routines, rejected items and quality relevant incidents. This advanced monitoring and record keeping functionality supports compliance with current food safety standards, legislation, and regulations.
ProdX™ supports regulatory compliance with the following international standards:
IFS, SQF, BRCGS, OIML, FSSC22000, HACCP, HARPC, FPVO, MID
ProdX™ keeps up-to-date with emerging standards, future-proofing production lines and maintaining high levels of compliance.
What are the benefits of QMS software?
ProdX™ has many valuable benefits, which can be expensive to implement separately in a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). It offers an integrated MES/ERP interface (OPC UA Server) to simplify network integration, supporting Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory global initiatives.
With ProdX™ Food Safety and Quality Management Software:
- Each device is connected to ProdX™ using a single standard protocol
- Checkweighers from other manufacturers ("3rd party CW") can also be connected
- ProdX™ only needs to be connected once
- New METTLER TOLEDO device connection is seamless
- All device data can be made instantly available to the SCADA/MES/ERP using an in-built OPC-UA server
Without ProdX™ Food Safety and Quality Management Software:
- Each device is separately connected to the network
- Each device may use different connectivity protocols (CP) depending on age and options
- Each device must be separately configured
- Data available to the SCADA/MES is limited
What is Quality Management System software?
The ideal Quality Management System software, or QMS software, is designed to help manufacturers monitor and properly store their product inspection data, satisfying global and local quality and compliance needs. It can streamline administrative effort through digitalization, allowing multiple devices to be monitored from one location, and offers backup cloud storage. It can reduce the complexity of data management and monitoring, supporting the growing demand for remote audit capability and complete traceability.
ProdX™ is a complete inspection management and connectivity software solution for METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection devices across the widest range of manufacturing industries. Its advanced data redundancy capabilities and communication architecture make it seamlessly scalable from single site, single device installations up to multi-site and multiple time zone international installations.
What is OPC UA?
OPC UA is an industrial communication standard, which ensures the open connectivity, interoperability, security, and reliability of industrial automation devices and systems. OPC UA is widely recognized as the key communication and data modeling technology for the Industry 4.0 initiative. It works with many software platforms, is completely scalable, and has been widely adopted by several industries because of its flexibility.
What are the benefits of OPC UA?
- It is a global, open standard
- It is independent and belongs to no single entity
- It provides an extensible data model which easily integrates with new technologies
- It is secure – managing access, authentication, validation, and encryption
- It is a cost-effective way to connect IIoT
What type of product inspection equipment can be managed by food safety and quality management software?
ProdX™ supports more than 30 models of product inspection devices from METTLER TOLEDO. These include metal detection, checkweighing, x-ray inspection, vision inspection and combination systems, from legacy devices up to the newest and all future generations.
With the latest version of ProdX™, customers can also connect to third party checkweighers.