http://www.foodsafetysuppliers.com A presentation by mrfoodsafety on increasing profit in food companies. Follow me on twitter: @mrfoodsafety

1. How to Increase Profits
By Improving Quality
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2. Why focus on improving?
An increasingly competitive marketplace
Rising Production costs
More demanding customers

3. What can a new focus on
quality do for a food
company?
Improve process efficiency
Reduce Process inefficiency
Improve customer satisfaction

4. Improve the process and
the product at the same
time.
Create a “QUALITY PROGRAM”.
Add Quality to other business operations.
MAKE IMPROVING QUALITY A HABIT!

5. TYPICAL QUALITY
PROGRAMS
Old school = Statistical Process Control (SPC)
New school = Total Quality Management (TQM)
ie: “SIX SIGMA”

6. Food safety systems
easily mix with quality
programs
Examples:
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
(HACCP).

7. Geek moment
QMS = FSMS
“QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS” are
similar to “FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS”.

8. How does Quality or
Food Safety happen?
By accident or by planning ahead?
Planning addresses issues BEFORE they
happen.
Remember: “An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure.”

9. GMP / HACCP
A proactive system to ensure food safety
Has planning, monitoring, and control steps.
Efforts made to plan and act ahead reduce the
number of unsafe products made.

10. Tools used for Food
Safety
Staff training
Use of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
Corrective Action Request forms (CAR)
Root cause analysis using Toyota’s 5
WHYs

11. 6 SIGMA
A proactive system to improve quality
Like food safety systems:
PLAN - ACT - REPEAT

12. SIX SIGMA: DMAIC
The six sigma steps to quality:
DEFINE
MEASURE
ANALYZE
IMPROVE
CONTROL

13. DEFINE
Management decides what to improve
A team is created
Projects are created to meet company goals

14. MEASURE
Refine the project
Look for root causes
Decide what data/measurements are needed
Collect data

15. ANALYZE
Use statistics, software, or common sense
Information allows the team to develop
hypotheses and verify root causes

16. IMPROVE
The best part!
Find and implement solutions to improve
quality or reduce non-compliance.
Ideas to address root causes are created
Trials are done to check for effectiveness
Final solutions are decided upon.

17. CONTROL
Improvements are made permanent
Company policies, procedures or culture are
changed.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) made
Steps to review changes for effectiveness are
made.

18. Tools to improve quality
ANALYSIS TOOLS:
Three level tree diagrams
Pareto Charts
Process Flow and Control Diagrams
Fishbone Diagrams

19. Other important factors
to improve quality
Team building
Management commitment
Staff encouragement and involvement
Use of clear goals as measuring sticks
Regular review

20. Summary
Add quality to everything your company does
You will improve operations, reduce waste, and
improve customer loyalty.
Keep improving and your profits will too!
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