Weighingand labeling technology has become so much more than the name implies. It has become a crucial element to help meat processors monitor and manage production flow.
Being avid believers in the adage, you can’t manage what you can’t measure, processors demand real-time facts enabling more efficient use of machines and people in order to affect their cost of ownership. More and more, these tools for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) serve vital functions and allow processors to see inefficiencies and address them before they slow production or, in the worst case, stop it. Even the fundamental expectation — the ability to weigh accurately to smaller tolerances — has improved to the point where the margin of error can be as low as 0.02 of a pound, according to a source.