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. 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. Ingredient
restrictions by market, country, and/or region can be tracked and
reported during formulation using
Guidelines and Restrictions.
Features for Food Companies
The System Includes
Calculations for All Key Nutrient Properties
ProductVision includes nutrient calculations for over
100 key nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, such as calories, fat
(including saturated and trans fat), sodium, sugars, and Vitamin A to
mention a few. Any new properties can be easily added by the user
at any time.
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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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 recipe’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.
All
Changes to Information in ProductVision are Recorded for Future
Reference
As required by Good Manufacturing Practices
and the FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulations, all changes made to an item are
logged by the system. Details of the change
include the user who made the change, the date and time, and exactly
what was changed on an item.
ProductVision allows you to prevent future changes to be made to
a finished recipe by assigning a “locked” status to the item or by
moving the item to a non-editable Entity or Security Type.
"My Work"
and "My Recent Work" Buttons Cut Development Time
 ProductVision
has two buttons which help you streamline your development tasks.
The “My Recent Work” button displays previously opened items in
chronological order. This sort order of items on the window can be
changed by clicking on the column header. Displayed items can be opened
simply by dragging-and-dropping them onto the desktop.
The “My Work” button
allows you to create a “to-do” list of items that you want to work on
within ProductVision. You can enter comments
about pending work and even assign items contained in your work cabinet
to another ProductVision user.
With proper security
rights, a manager can view “My Recent Work” and “My Work” entries for
any or all ProductVision users, if desired.
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 Food Industry Include:
Autumn Harp
Awrey Bakeries
George Weston
Bakeries, Inc.
Bama Companies
Bimbo Bakeries
USA
Cangro Foods, Inc.
Danisco
Degussa
D.F. Stauffer Biscuit
Co. Inc.
FONA International
Frito-Lay
Godiva Chocolatier, Inc.
Hain Celestial
Illes Foods
Ltd.
McCain Foods Limited
Nation Pizza
Products
Pinnacle Foods
Quaker Oats
Ralcorp
Sara Lee Bakery
Group
Specialty
Brands
SpiceTec (a division of
ConAgra)
Unilever Best Foods
Modules
Used in the Food Industry Include:
Formula Management
Auditing
Data Transfer
Guidelines and Restrictions
Nutrition Labeling
Nutrition Database
Projects
Workflow
Testing
Samples
Formula Design
OLE Automation/Events
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