Benefits of ProductVision
The ProductVision Product Development System shortens and
streamlines your product development process, resulting in faster time
to market. It automates recipe creation with automatic calculation of
all nutritional property and costing information. Query features allow
you to easily find existing recipes that may meet new requirements. All
recipe revisions are automatically maintained.
Recipe development tasks for frozen desserts are greatly aided by using
the tools contained in the Ice
Cream Module. Product development
tasks can be tracked and controlled using Project and
Workflow
features. Nutrition labels and ingredient declarations may be
created automatically in the program using the entered recipe and
ingredient nutritional information.
Features for Dairy Companies
The System Includes
Calculations for Key Dairy Properties
ProductVision includes entry and calculation of dairy
properties including Butterfat %, MSNF %, Solids %, Whey %and other
important product attributes.
Accelerate Ice
Cream Creation in the Mix Spreadsheet
ProductVision’s exclusive Mix Spreadsheet automates the creation of
mixes for ice cream, ice milk, frozen yogurt,
water ices and other frozen mixes.
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Simply enter your
desired product properties, such as butterfat %, MSNF %, etc. and the
program calculates the product composition necessary to meet your
requirements. ProductVision automatically detects which solver to use
for the recipe based upon the ingredients contained in the product.
Automated Novelty Editor Simplifies Recipe Development for Bars, Cones,
Pushups and other Novelties
Once you have developed your mixes using the Mix Spreadsheet, you may
use the Ice Cream Editor to simplify the calculations required when
using your mixes in products, including finished ice creams and
novelties.
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Example Neapolitan
Ice Cream (3 mixes) |
For
ice creams, the Ice Cream Editor automatically varies mix Overrun %(s)
as necessary to meet a desired product density. For novelties, the
editor calculates the mix Overrun % to meet a desired product size, for
example, 4 fluid ounces.
Determine the Freeze Point for the Current Recipe
Using ProductVision's flexible user-defined properties, you can
easily display a freeze point curve for a product based upon the
recipe's composition (Butterfat, Total Solids, Sugar Concentration and
type).
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Links to the Industry Standard ESHA Research Nutritional Database
Through our partnership with ESHA Research, you can access nutritional
information for over 26,000 foods contained in the ESHA nutrition
database. Simply locate the ingredients that match yours using
ProductVision’s powerful search utilities and copy up to 165 nutrient
factors contained in the database.
Calculated Properties Aid in Determination of Allergens and Kosher
Status
You can easily track additional product requirements such as Kosher,
Allergen content, and country-specific regulations using ProductVision
properties.
Example Regulatory Properties |
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Egg Allergen Details |
The Property detail screen allows you to drill-down to the
ingredient level to determine which ingredients, if any, cause an
allergen condition.
“What If” Feature Allows You to Quickly Created New Recipes
With ProductVision’s “What-If” analysis
tool, you can quickly prototype new products. You may set a target
property or cost value for a product, “float” one or more components,
and have the system arrive at the correct composition to meet the
target.
Alternately, a
product’s composition can be directly edited and
ProductVision will recalculate and display the new
product properties,
such as nutritional values.
Compare Recipes Side-by-Side to
Determine the Best Alternative
ProductVision allows you to compare an unlimited number of recipes
directly in a spread-sheet view making comparisons of similar products a
snap.
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The recipe comparison is “tabbed” to allow you to compare recipe
compositions, properties, specifications, ingredient declarations,
notes, alerts, and other information directly. For further study, you
can quickly export some or all of the information to Excel. For
ingredients, the ingredient comparison feature may be used similarly.
Create Facts Panels and Ingredient Declarations at the Touch of a Button
ProductVision’s seamlessly integrated Nutrition Label
Module automatically creates food nutrition labels and ingredient
declarations which comply with the current U.S. NLEA regulations as well
as current and pending regulations for Canadian and European Union
labels. This greatly reduces the time required to create product labels
and guarantees consistency with the recipe.
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The
program calculates and prints the proper nutrient values and percentage
of daily values (US label). It also applies the specific rounding rules
for each nutrition value as specified in the regulations and
automatically reports nutrients that are “not a significant source” in
the lower part of the facts panel. The Ingredient Declaration includes
features for ingredient reconstitution (for dry ingredients) and
ingredient grouping (ex. “Vegetable Oils” for corn oil, canola oil, etc.)
to ensure that your declaration is properly formatted.
Single Source
for Product Information
ProductVision eliminates the
need for multiple systems (spreadsheets, databases, additional software packages) to
maintain product recipe, nutritional, specification and costing information. ProductVision
gives the user a single source of information. With ProductVision there is one database
which holds all information concerning ingredients and
recipes, and that same integrated
system handles the automatic calculation of product properties, costs, nutrition
"Facts" labels and ingredient statements. Product
Developers have access to information
from their peers throughout the company, thus food scientists work
together as a team.
ProductVision Includes Extensive
Reporting
ProductVision has many standard reports which allow you to view your
ingredient, recipe composition and property information, as well as
allowing you to create your own custom reports using our HTML reporting
tool.
The ProductVision Product Development
System dramatically reduces the time traditionally required for development of new or
improved products. ProductVision provides the tools necessary to manage all aspects of new
product creation from recipe development to packaging and manufacturing requirements.
Standard Formula Master Report |
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Example User Created Report |
Some ProductVision Users in the Dairy Industry Include:
Dreyer's Grand Ice
Cream
Nestlé
Modules
Used in the Dairy Industry Include:
Formula Management
Ice Cream
Auditing
Data Transfer
Nutrition Labeling
Nutrition Database
Projects
Workflow
Samples
Testing
Formula Design
OLE Automation/Events
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