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Focus on the process - Trend Compass
Focus on the process
From the field to the plate: In order to reduce food waste worldwide and increase the quality of food, CHECK Services has been reorganizing the food flow process since 2018 as a manufacturer-independent service provider with various partners and thanks to a digital solution. The trend compass was at urbanharbor in Ludwigsburg. Headquarters of CHECK Services.
With the launch of CHECK HACCP, an important module is already successfully on the market. Check HACCP gives users the advantage that all relevant data is made available to them on a single horizontal cloud platform. This includes temperature results and hygiene values from various sources, systems and applications - all independent of time and place.
With the help of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology of the cooperation partner T-Systems, the system was brought to a high-performance level. The partner T-Systems is responsible for the product implementation and, above all, ensures IT security and data protection in a German data center.
Published in the December 2018 issue - Trendkompass
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Digital from the field to the plate - LKZ
Digital from the field to the plate
Where does the great added value of digitization lie today? Not in the invention of new data worlds, but in the application of the new technical possibilities to the existing living environment. This is what a young company in Ludwigsburg's Weststadt district, Check Services GmbH, stands for. Based on this philosophy, the start-up has found a way to use digital means to make the personnel-intensive control procedures in food processing easier and faster. The system also offers a platform for comprehensive action throughout the entire food chain, including reusable products.
The managing director is Max Maier. It is no coincidence that the young entrepreneur realizes ideas for digitalization especially in the food industry. His father is Max Maier senior, who is not only the owner of Ludwigsburg's Urbanharbor business park, but also the owner of the Reutlingen-based company Rieber, an equipment specialist for the professional catering industry. Anyone who produces, processes and distributes food today has to ensure that a growing number of controls are carried out on their own responsibility in day-to-day production. The package of regulations goes by the abbreviation HACCP and means the proof that in a restaurant as in a large kitchen, on a farm as in a dairy, the standards for hygiene and for the temperature of the food are maintained on a whole chain of control points.
Until now, this has meant costly paperwork for many catering businesses to document proof of inspections.
In the initial phase of their digital development strategy, Maier and his father still relied on developing their own IT solutions. "But we realized that we'd be better off focusing on our core competence and looking for a partner." The choice fell on Telekom subsidiary T-Systems. Check Services offers a control chain networked via the Internet. This consists in part of permanently installed sensors that automatically collect data in the cold storage room, for example. In the kitchen or during transport, mobile measuring devices are needed. Here, the check system uses a technical development from racing, where the tire temperature is recorded within just one or two seconds during a pit stop. This technology, implemented in a measuring device that is networked with the smartphone app via Bluetooth, accelerates the temperature control of food and makes the leap into digitalization.
The various checkpoints, for example at dispensing counters or transport containers, are marked with QR codes and can thus be quickly located for data processing and documentation by smartphone scan. The data in the check system all goes into a cloud solution from T-Systems. "We can thus ensure the guidelines of German data protection," says Max Maier. In line with the insight that "you can only become strong in the digital world with strong partners," the cooperation with one of Germany's most powerful data centers at the University of Stuttgart also fits in. There is the necessary capacity to analyze as much of the digital data from the check system as possible. This with the aim of further improving processes in the food chain. "If we develop an algorithm that can dynamically create the best-before date based on the real-time temperature throughout the entire cold chain, food would have a longer shelf life on average, which would reduce food waste," explains Max Maier.
The new Check Services GmbH has been spun off from the parent company Rieber. "We want to offer the food industry a cross-manufacturer and holistic platform," says the managing director. The vision is to integrate other areas in the production, distribution and processing of food into the platform. "Each division in the entire food sector is well organised in its own right, but it stops at its own edge, there is still a kind of silo thinking," says Max Maier.
A networked food world offers new and far-reaching perspectives, such as the shift away from disposable packaging and plastic waste to a reusable system. This is where the paths of the spin-off Check Services GmbH and the parent company Rieber meet again. Max Maier Sr. has developed a reusable system with temperature-efficient stainless steel/aluminum containers and matching kitchen technology.
Just these days, the Maier family has won a prominent and large customer for the catering market for this combination of digitalization, reusable and automated kitchen technology: Dr. Oetker Professional Germany.
Published December 1-2, 2018 in LKZ.
Author Peter Maier-Stein
Vision for a networked world of food and for an end to silo thinking.
The journey of our food - the challenge: organising the logistical information and processes between the food, the processing stages and the people along the value chain.
System also offers help in the fight against food waste.
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HACCP lists no longer 4 years in the confusing paper-folder chaos, but transparent, digitally retrievable at any time. All measuring points and documentation as well as alarms in one web interface.
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Efficient energy management - is your refrigerator constantly 3 °C too cold?
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Everything checked? - GVmanager
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HACCP lists no longer 4 years in the confusing paper-folder chaos, but transparent, digitally retrievable at any time. All measuring points and documentation as well as alarms in one web interface.
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Efficient energy management - is your refrigerator constantly 3 °C too cold?
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speisewerk - urban centralkitchen
CHECK CLOUD is a process-encompassing, automated cloud platform to transparently track, collect and distribute information about the storage condition and organisation of food, from production to plate.
The CHECK customer speisewerk is the urban centralkitchen of the industrial site urbanharbor in Ludwigsburg. A campus that thinks in terms of the future and, above all, digitalisation. In addition to the daily catering for the large corporations located there, speisewerk supplies surrounding care facilities such as daycare centres and schools with regional and seasonal meals at around 50 different locations. Here, too, thousands of meals have to be checked and documented daily for the extensive catering concept in accordance with HACCP. Status quo, this is recorded manually in the facilities and means an enormous amount of time for those responsible, which ties up unnecessary personnel capacity and is also prone to errors due to the lack of automation.
The speisewerk therefore documents the daily measurements completely digitally via the CHECK HACCP system and thus benefits not only from considerable time savings but also from the security and transparency provided by the CHECK CLOUD.
An urban showcase gastronomy concept organised by the digital platform CHECK CLOUD and the physical infrastructure of partner Rieber. The QR code identification of the GN operating system organises the reusable cycle from the restaurateur to the plate, with simultaneous cessation of single-use packaging waste and reduction of food waste. Only by digitally recording the legally required HACCP data can transparency and confidence in the food be guaranteed.
T-Systems Reference Partner
CHECK Services: Transparent food chain from the field to the plate
The CHECK CLOUD digitalization and organization system from CHECK Services allows the hygiene and temperature of food and meals to be digitally monitored and documented. This is intended to improve their quality, increase process efficiency and enable the traceability of reusable systems.
Digital monitoring of legal hygiene regulations
Intelligent food monitoring with IoT
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HACCP lists no longer 4 years in the confusing paper-folder chaos, but transparent, digitally retrievable at any time. All measuring points and documentation as well as alarms in one web interface.
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Efficient energy management - is your refrigerator constantly 3 °C too cold?
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CHECK CLOUD Showroom
Physically and digitally combined, the CHECK CLOUD container in the urbanharbor shows innovative solutions for the food supply chain in cooperation with Rieber and T-Systems.
The individual silos along the value chain need to learn from each other and cooperate. Driven by the vision to disruptively reorganize this supply chain through a reusable system to counteract the plastic waste. This simultaneously creates the basic prerequisite for regional and seasonal nutrition.
The new product CHECK HACCP replaces analogue paperwork with a digital tool so that all quality-relevant data, such as temperature and hygiene, are available digitally at any time and anywhere. The equipment for the catering trade from Rieber or other manufacturers can be retrofitted with intelligent sensors to ensure complete documentation for the caterer and to inform him as soon as his food is outside the specified temperature values. This allows energy and cost saving potentials to be uncovered and processes to be optimized. In addition, the measurement data is no longer filed in analogue folders for 4 years, but is available on demand in the CHECK CLOUD.
With the customer's consent to evaluate this data, there is a cooperation with the high-performance computer center of the University of Stuttgart. This allows the collected data to be correlated with other data from a wide range of areas and analyzed. Using artificial intelligence, algorithms can now be used to develop scenarios in advance in order to optimally control processes. For example, the cooling temperature of food transport containers can be adjusted if the transport routes are analyzed too far in advance, in combination with the predicted outside temperature for the coming weeks. Or the rinse agent injection ratio of the washing lines in coordination with the food production plan.
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HACCP lists no longer 4 years in the confusing paper-folder chaos, but transparent, digitally retrievable at any time. All measuring points and documentation as well as alarms in one web interface.
Organize your operation no matter where you are and always stay informed about your process-relevant data.
Efficient energy management - is your refrigerator constantly 3 °C too cold?
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US PATENT
CHECK Services has been granted an American patent in the United States for the product innovations of the digitizing system.
"An idea is true when it has not yet caught on. At the moment of general confirmation it becomes immoderate."
Eugène Ionesco
U.S. Pat. No. 9,996,956
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HACCP lists no longer 4 years in the confusing paper-folder chaos, but transparent, digitally retrievable at any time. All measuring points and documentation as well as alarms in one web interface.
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Efficient energy management - is your refrigerator constantly 3 °C too cold?
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