Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Keeping product flowing while staying on top of quality checks, process monitoring, and traceability isn't easy — especially when your current system involves paper forms, manual data entry, and end-of-shift scrambles to find records.
Where complexity builds up
A missed signature on a clipboard check sheet usually comes to light when an auditor or customer asks for the records, and someone has to explain the blank.
A fill weight that drifts at 9:00 and gets written down at 11:00 means two hours of overpack or short-weight product. Paper and spreadsheet logs put that kind of lag between every CCP deviation and the response.
When the line switches product or format, someone has to confirm the setup before production starts. Too often that confirmation is a verbal OK from the lead hand, with nothing written down.
When a recall scenario or regulatory inquiry comes in, you need to trace material through the line quickly. On paper, that means matching receiving logs, batch sheets and check sheets by hand.
Quality compliance without slowing the line
Paper check sheets become scheduled checks on a screen at the line, with SPC on CCPs and weight checks. Each lot gets a record through the line, and production gets the schedule and OEE figures it needs to hit throughput targets. AMPI and Heritage Coffee are among the food and beverage plants running it.
- Digital quality checks — scheduled checks with electronic sign-off, timestamps, and alert escalation
- SPC for critical control points — real-time control charts with out-of-spec alerts on CCPs and weight checks
- Lot traceability — link raw material lots to finished goods through every production step
- Schedule management — production scheduling with sequence visibility and changeover planning
- Changeover verification — digital setup workflows before production resumes after a changeover
- OEE and production reporting — output and efficiency by line, by shift, automatically
Saved annually by eliminating overpack losses through paperless quality monitoring
Read the AMPI case study →For plants that answer to auditors
Electronic records built for audits
Every quality check, SPC reading, and traceability event is stored with timestamps and user attribution. When an auditor or customer asks, the records are organized and retrievable immediately.
SPC alerts on out-of-control readings
When a process variable goes outside its control limits, 10in6 alerts the supervisor and quality tech for that line, so the drift is corrected before it becomes a product quality event.
Configures to your quality program
Check frequencies, parameter limits, escalation paths and traceability rules are set from your food safety plan and your customers' specifications.
Quality records first, then line performance
Common questions from food & beverage manufacturers
- How does 10in6 support FSMA, SQF, and BRCGS programs?
- 10in6 provides the digital recordkeeping layer these programs draw on — scheduled quality checks with electronic sign-off, SPC monitoring for critical control points, lot traceability, and a searchable history of every result. Audit and certification conclusions remain with your auditors and certification bodies; 10in6 makes the evidence complete, current, and retrievable in minutes instead of days of paper searching.
- Can 10in6 track giveaway and overpack in real time?
- Yes. Product weight checks feed real-time alerts, so operators adjust the moment fill weights drift — instead of discovering overpack after the shift is over. AMPI, the largest cheese cooperative in the U.S., saved over $100,000 by eliminating overpack with exactly this workflow.
- Does 10in6 provide lot traceability through production?
- Yes — lot-level traceability links raw material lots through each production step to finished product, with timestamps, operators, and quality check results attached. Recall investigations and customer inquiries that used to mean hours of digging through paper resolve in minutes.
- What happens when a quality check is missed or a result is out of spec?
- 10in6 alerts supervisors when a check is overdue and escalates out-of-spec results by Andon board, email, or SMS the moment they're entered — so issues are contained during the shift rather than discovered in an end-of-day paper review.
The problems food and beverage plants bring to us most
Paper check sheets that get filled in late
Checks that come up when due, record every result and flag anything missed or out of spec.
Read the answer → TraceabilityTracing a complaint back to the cause
Lot versus serial traceability, and how a backward and forward investigation actually runs.
Read the answer → AuditsRecords that are ready when the auditor asks
What audit-ready means in practice and the five questions every audit comes back to.
Read the answer → QualityThe same defects keep coming back
Why defects recur and the six practices that stop them being made, from on-time checks to traceability.
Read the answer →After go-live, your team runs it. Operators, downtime and scrap codes, products and targets, shift schedules, checks, alerts, emailed reports and real-time boards are yours to change. New machines, modules and custom reports go through a 10in6 project manager who already knows your plant. How the delivery model works →
See 10in6 applied to your food & beverage operation
Tell us which checks your quality program requires and how they're recorded today. We'll work out how they'd run at the line, with the record behind each one.