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Opus retail pack software is for multiple scale manual retail packing operations. Increased productivity & pack accuracy with product optimising. Packhouses, Ready Meal Factories and Meat & Poultry retail packers using OPUS 'e' software have reported a marked increase in productivity with significant reductions in Give Away since using Opus 'e' . Up to 128 scales can be networked wireless via wi fi giving total scale staion station flexibility and portability.
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Features
- Automatic pack weight Optimising through continuous monitoring and control of pack weights and adjustment of target weights
- Reductions in overfill plus increased output.
- Suitable for Average Weight and Nett Minimum Weight.
- Each operator performance is visible on the Supervisor's PC.
- No action required by operator to capture weight.
- Real Time information available on local and networked PC's.
- Automatic download of user configurable limits.
- Up to 128 scales controlled from one Server.
- For Aja DP Scales or other manufacturers scales.
- Comprehensive, real-time reports covering pre-set or free-choice periods.
- Quick and easy access to required results.
- Pack results available by shift, day or period.
- Graphical reports - Histogram, Trend and Control.
- Real time display of current production.
- Time base and zoom facility for trend graph.
- Real time display of Production count by operator against target.
- User editable tabular reports.
- Bespoke reports if required.
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Increased productivity & finished pack accuracy with ingredient optimizing for Ready Meal, Prepared Foods, Sandwich Production, Pizza etc. OPUS Users have reported a marked increase in productivity with significant improvements in YIELD and Give Away with using Opus. Up to 128 scales can be networked wireless via wi fi giving total scale flexibility and portability.
It's quite a trick to control the weight of each ingredient or component in a multi-component pack where each component weight is different and to ensure that the entire pack contents comply with your overall Spec & Weights and Measures Law. Opus can help you to achieve your aims, if necessary prioritizing weight control so that the cheapest component occupies the biggest allowable proportion consistent with your tolerances. In short, stay in budget and stay legal or meeting your individual component spec with your acceptable tolerances.
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Features
- Ingredient Optimizing through continuous monitoring and adjustment of target weights.
- Reductions in overfill plus increased output.
- Suitable for Average Weight, Minimum Weight and SPC products.
- Each operator performance is visible on the Supervisor's PC.
- No action required by operator to capture weight.
- Real Time information available on local and networked PC's.
- Manages multi - product ingredient packing.
- Automatic download of user configurable limits.
- Up to 128 scales controlled from one PC.
- Suitable scales need not be of one type.
- Comprehensive, real-time reports covering pre-set or free-choice periods.
- Quick and easy access to required results.
- Pack and Tare results available by shift, day or period.
- Graphical reports - Histogram, Trend and Control.
- Real time display of current production.
- Raw Data Summary of each individual sample.
- Time base and zoom facility for trend graph.
- Real time display of Production count by operator against target.
- User editable tabular reports.
- Bespoke reports if required.
Handheld PDA for factory uploading and downloading of dat from scales and factory floor PC terminal. By bar code scanning or Bluetooth.
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Checkweigher Networking Software giving 100% visibility of pack fills to meet legal requirements and limit profit loss. Opus MCI '01' Checkweigher software offers 100% real-time charting of every pack that goes over your checkweighers. Immediate warnings of low weights and expensive give-away are flagged up in full colour. Comprehensive records help you to analyze pack weights and diagnose filling faults. |
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Features:
- Links to multiple checkweighers without loss of system performance.
- Interfaces available for Yamato, Aja, Avery, Garvens, Loma, Lock, Hitec, Boekels. etc.
- Communications by cable or WiFi, to stand-alone Server, PC or network.
- Large PLU database uploads product settings to checkweighers on-board memory.
- PC screen warnings displayed for individual and collective pack fill infringements.
- Real-time, dynamic screen graphic reports covering all aspects of fill performance, selectable by time and other filters.
- Feedback to automatic filling machines for closed-loop weight control.
- Fill head performance analysis for reducing fill variability
- Lot/Batch/other identifiers for full traceability Line efficiency and total weight throughput based on actual production rate.
- Comprehensive, configurable reports in table format.
- Quick and easy access to recorded information.
- Colour-coded histogram, trend, original data charts.
- Cost of manufacture with variance from standard.
- Separate charts for legal compliance and control.
- Trend plotted with event- or time-base, incorporating zoom facility.
- Original data transactions show full details of each pack weighing.
- User configurable report tables.
- Colour-coded data for easy viewing.
- Records acceptable for Trading Standards, BRC and other legal and regulatory requirements.
- Print-out of screen displays and report tables.
- All records stamped with date and time.
- Bespoke reports as required.
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Recipe formulation software for accurate weighing-up in batches, blends and mixes
OPUS Recipe Formulation software offers benefits of consistent quality, reduced waste, better cost control and full traceability to weighing and measuring ingredients for set formulations.
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Features
- Up to 100 weighing stations without loss of system performance; linked by cable or RF to stand-alone Management PC or LAN as required
- Utilises standard scales, operator terminals, label printers, bar code scanners and PC stations
- Clear, colour bar-graph guide for weighing out components
- Up to 50 components per formulation and no limit on the number of formulations; automatic calculation of component weights for non-standard batch sizes
- Handles components by weight or by volume, with fixed or variable tolerance limits
- Recording of Lot No, Batch No, Plant and User Identities for full traceability
- Formulation method, Health and Safety messages and manufacturing information displayed to weighing Operator
- Dynamically-editable, Management Production Plan with Operator options of free batch choice or strict priority
- Comprehensive, real-time reports of batch production, actual ingredient usage with totals and variance figures order
Optional additional modules covering:
- Supplier Management
- Ingredient Ordering
- Goods Receiving with Quality and HACCP monitoring
- Stock Management and Control
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- Quick and easy access to recorded information.
- Materials usage by Batch or over any time period.
- Cost of manufacture with variance from standard.
- Progress counter to track production plan.
- Full Lot and Batch traceability with every batch.
- Raw materials stocklist with value.
- Operator productivity performance tracking.
- Materials re-order report.
- Records acceptable for legal and Regulatory use.
- Aborted Batch report with materials costs.
- All records stamped with date and time.
- Bespoke reports as required.
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OPUS Stock software is a modular system designed for real-time control of materials stocks, helping you minimise your stock-holding while heading-off the danger of running short at a critical moment. From managing supplier details and ordering raw materials, through receiving deliveries and warehousing, full details of materials movements are recorded and an intelligent watch kept on future needs. From transfer to warehouse stock and onwards to customer despatch, finished goods are controlled in a similar way. Levels of stock held in warehouse and in each department can be analyzed quickly for value, traceability and other purposes.
Opera A2 Stock runs on standard PC hardware, electronic weighing and measuring machines, Operator terminals, auto ID equipment, printers and data networks.
Purchasing - Comprehensive relational database of suppliers, raw materials, pricing, HACCP and Quality information facilitates placing orders with specified delivery dates to meet minimum stock levels and planned production.
Goods In - Rolling 'due delivery' schedule helps plan dock labour and track expected deliveries. Receiving goods includes sample or full check on delivered quantity, with HACCP warnings and Quality checks on carrier and goods.
Raw Material Stores - Records additions, transfers, issues and quarantine of materials. Advises on stock locations and re-order schedule. Prompts issues by FIFO or Use By. Provides facilities for physical stock take and manual reconciliation of stock.
End Product Stores - Records finished goods received from manufacturing for storage in the finished product warehouse and issues to despatch, quarantine, returns or downgrades.
Despatch - Relational database with customer orders records loads made up and goods despatched, with Lot/Batch No and Use By validation.
Invoicing - Financial processing can be accommodated within Opera A3 Stock or by a software link to third-party accounting package.
Features:
- Full Lot and Batch traceability.
- Data sorted by a comprehensive set of filters.
- Stock quantities and values by location or supplier.
- Dialogues between terminals and Management PCs.
- Quick and easy access to recorded information.
- Quick correlations between plan and actual material usage.
- Cost of materials used and variance from standard.
- Materials re-order report.
- Records acceptable for Trading Standards, BRC and other legal and regulatory requirements.
- Scrap, waste, downgrades, transfers, all recorded.
- All records stamped with date and time.
- Bespoke reports as required.
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Since January 2005, EU Regulation (EC) 178/2002 have ben in force throughout Europe to help guarantee food safety for consumers. Food producers have a duty to provide traceability of raw materials and products through all stages of production, processing and distribution. Records must be kept for at least the shelf life of the product and information must be produced on demand to the competent authorities. There are no exemptions for small businesses and 'due diligence' is no defense against prosecution. Penalties for failing to comply are heavy.
OPUS Traceability software can help food manufacturers to comply with the law, limit losses, protect brand value and minimise business risks in the event of a product recall.
- OPUS Traceability software covers all activities from Goods In to Despatch including storage, de-box, recipe formulation, mixing, pack filling, processing.
- Collects data from scales, checkweighers, auto ID scanners, PLCs, Operator terminals, existing computer systems, test instruments etc.
- Prints Lot/Batch labels to track raw materials, work in progress and production to dispatch.
- Records time- and date-stamps for all transactions, materials movements and checks.
- Records can include Operator identity for full accountability. Opus correlates traceability data through comprehensive, easy-to-use reports using colour graphics and selectable data filters.
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- Quick and easy access to recorded information.
- Data sorted by a comprehensive set of filters.
- Stock quantities and values by location or supplier.
- Dialogues between terminals and Management PCs.
- Full Lot and Batch traceability.
- Quick correlations between plan and actual material usage.
- Operator productivity performance tracking.
- Materials re-order report.
- Records acceptable for Trading Standards, BRC and other legal and regulatory requirements.
- Scrap, waste, downgrades, transfers, all recorded.
- All records stamped with date and time.
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Opus Quality Events Software module records your routine product quality attribute checks and can tell you in real time whether you're comfortably in control, edging towards a problem or seriously adrift from Company quality standards!
Opus prompts the Operator to perform the checks and tests that you configure and requests confirmation that they have been carried out. It also prompts for data about product or process defects that the tests have shown up. If Events and Defects is linked to the Quarantine module, Opus automatically compares the Operator entries to your specified AQL levels and warns when quality is deteriorating.
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- Runs on standard Opus systems for Product and Filling Line control.
- Manager-edited lists for event and defect descriptions.
- Up to 100 Event or Defect descriptions per list.
- Easy copy routine to duplicate and edit lists.
- Full accountability and traceability data for every check.
- Colour bar chart analysis including nil defects.
- Quality Module for quality attribute checking against AQL.
- Date Code Module for verifying Best Before and other life-expiry codes.
- Component Code Module for checking container and packaging components.
- Quick and easy access to recorded information.
- No limit to the number of Event & Defect lists.
- Free-field, user-entered Event & Defect descriptions.
- Up to 100 event or defect descriptions for each List configured.
- Times tamped, Operator-identified records of Events & Defects.
- Reports can be filtered by time-frame, Product, Line, Operator, Batch etc.
- Records acceptable for Trading Standards, BRC, legal and regulatory requirements.
- Print-out of screen displays and report tables.
- Bespoke reports as required.
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Opus Batch Tracking Software pinpoints problems and avoid needlessly scrapping good product Opus tracks the codes that you use to mark your Product, making sure that you can find all the information relating to a particular Batch, Works Order, Shelf Life etc whenever you need it.
Operators are promted to enter the traceability identifiers associated with the product and logs them against the checks or tests that are being carried out. The result is a comprehensive record facilitating full traceability of all the important parameters. Product recalls and quarantines become much less costly in time, trouble and money. Now it's possible to identify, locate and segregate the exact batch of product rather than playing safe with a larger - and more expensive - quantity.
- Runs on standard OPUS systems for Product and Filling Line control.
- Manager-edited names of up to four identifiers e.g. Batch Codes, Blend ID, Works Order Nos, Customer Code etc.
- Configurable prompt-and-entry sequence for Operator entries.
- Check frequency can be configured to suit regime.
- Full accountability and traceability data for every check.
- Analysis of collected data by any combination of Manager-configured tracking codes
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- Date Code Module for verifying Best Before and other life-expiry codes.
- Component Code Module for checking container and packaging components.
- Quality Module for quality attribute checking against AQL.
- Quick and easy access to recorded information.
- Records up to four tracking codes as standard.
- Free- choice of tracking field names.
- Time stamped, Operator-identified records of tracking codes together with test data.
- Reports can be filtered by time-frame, Product, Line, Operator and any combination of tracking code names.
- Reports by single or selected codes, batches orders etc.
- Records acceptable for Trading Standards, BRC, legal and regulatory requirements.
- Print-out of screen displays and report tables.
- Bespoke reports as required.
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OPUS Harvest & Picking Software for Labour, picking and crop recording in the field module saves time, trouble and money by freeing you from paper records, automatically calculating working hours and crop yields, and ensuring precise accuracy in reports and summaries. Just as important, it provides product traceability as required by new legislation.
OPUS lets you record labour, productivity and yield out in the field, glasshouse or wherever your crop is picked. Data recorded on hand-held terminals is downloaded to a PC at the end of each shift or day to provide reports on crops picked, worker performance, earnings and other related information. It allows analysis by worker, field, variety, picking system and a flexible variety of other factors.
Features
- A choice of rugged, user-friendly, hand-held terminals with the option of built-in bar
code scanning for entry of labour and picking information.
- Industry-standard Management PC and peripherals for setting up workers, products, fields, payment rates etc.
- Easy customization for small or large farms, using your own names for fields, sheds, tunnels, houses, flushes etc.
- Allows flexible picking systems including individual and team working, piecework or hourly rates.
- One key-stroke download of data from hand-held terminal to Manager's PC.
- Written and supported by a long-established software house with training and support facilities.
- Integrates seamlessly into a complete farm, packhouse, or factory system. When integrated with other modules Harvest & Pick module can provide full traceability from growing materials (crop input, fertiliser, spraying etc) through to dispatch.
- Reports can be user-designed for analysing and summarising Worker performance or Farm yield and can be changed at any time to suit requirements.
- Reported information can be filtered by time, worker name, crop, grade, field, batch etc to
minimise report space.
- Crop units can be selected from a working range including kg, g, lb, oz or other on request.
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OPUS Workforce Management Software module saves time, trouble and money by freeing you from paper records, automatically calculating working hours, pay and bonuses, and ensuring precise accuracy in reports and summaries.
OPUS Workforce Management lets you record labour and tasks out in the field on mobile units, or at fixed positions via terminals or even link to existing digital clocking instruments.
Features
- Pay rates configurable for each task by hour, piece-rate, task or combinations.
- Allows flexible bonus systems including individual and team working.
- Separate pay sheets generated for permanent staff and agencies.
- Checks to ensure that piece-rate and task payments meet minimum wage rates.
- A choice of rugged, user-friendly terminals.
- Records workforce details such as address, employment started/ended, work permit, NI number, etc.
- Industry-standard Management PC and peripherals for setting up workers, products, tasks, payment rates etc.
- Easy for you to customise, using your own names for tasks, fields, sheds, houses, flushes etc.
- Integrates seamlessly into a complete farm, packhouse, or factory system. When integrated with other modules.
- Options available to integrate with 3rd party software such as SAGE Line50.
- OPUS modules can provide full traceability from growing materials (crop input, fertiliser, spraying etc) through harvesting and packing to final dispatch.
- Quick and easy access to recorded information.
- Wide range of standard reports available including: Time and attendance by day, pay sheets, pay slips, and personnel records.
- Clear colour coded exceptions.
- Single plot or composite result screens.
- Recording and reporting of data entry, warnings and acknowledgements.
- Configurable Management reports by a wide selection of criteria.
- User-configurable report tables.
- Runs on OPUS systems under easy-to-use standard software.
- Data reporting can be accessed via network by suitable operators.
- Displayed warnings for configurable out-of-spec conditions such as booked holidays exceeding duty allowance.
- Reports can be user-designed for analysing and summarising Worker details or Farm performance.
- Reported information can be filtered by time, worker name, crop, grade, field, batch etc
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Opus software enhancements add practical production management features to your operation. OPUS may already be helping helps you to monitor and control your production processes to save time, trouble and money - and help to demonstrate compliance, 'due diligence' and other legal obligations.
If you want to make your OPUS installation even more useful, take a look at these low-cost enhancements. Each of them serves up clear opportunities for reduced processing costs, improved quality or more demonstrable compliance in your manufacturing operation.
What's more, they permit OPUS to be customised for your own special circumstances, using words and phrases that will be easily understood by your own Operators. User-friendly prompting messages guide staff through simple selection or data entry routines, with plain-language warnings when things go wrong.
| Line Reader |
Records Line or Filler identity (Number or Name) against recorded results together with Product Name/Article Code. Each weigh-station so equipped can take over the work of another in case of breakdown. |
| Reminder |
Directs and controls the Operator to specific check procedures at Manager-defined intervals. Allows limited delay where it can be permitted. |
| Task Advisor |
Displays Management-editable text messages to the Operator at assigned intervals or activity points. Permits rapid message changes when needed. |
| Tags |
Organises Products into groups for rapid database editing of those with like properties e.g. nominal contents; cans per case; alcohol spirit strength |
| Encoded Data Reader |
Allows connection of encoded data readers (with suitable serial output) through a Opus MCI data port e.g. bar code, magnetic stripe, RF tags, biometric readers. Saves time and errors over keyboard entry. |
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Analyses the performance of each filling head or depositor in a multi-head or multi-depositor production line to reduce filling variability. |
OPUS Extensive use of colour graphics - Easily - understood reports
- Raw data recording, summary reports, exception reports and filtered reports are available in graph and table formats.
- On-screen alarm and warning messages alert Operators and Managers to non -compliant process conditions.
- System access is protected by up to five levels of password security.
- Links to MRP, ERP systems.
- All records time and date-stamped for Modular software for economic system-building. Buy what you need and when your budget allows.
- Records acceptable for Trading Standards, BRC and other UK and EC legal/regulatory requirements.
- Real-time reports.
- All reports can be printed and exported to third-party systems.
- Data can be acquired automatically or keyed in by Operator or Manager.
- Full support packages available.
High level of text, graphic and functional configurability for easy customisation.
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