I am so sorry everyone, i didnt know that we are meeting at 9pm, so i assumed it is 7pm. I am unable to attend the meeting because i have something on, however i have done some research with the time i have. Please review my research and see if its useful, i'll check and reply to the discussion board when i get back. I have found two process flow which i think we can use. My supervisor told me the process flowchart in the company cannot be used, therefore i tried searching online for others. My tip to finding process flowchart is to find specific names of common processed food products. For example 'canned tuna process flowchart' or 'whitebread process flowchart'. How to get ideas? just look around your house. ;) Please try it should you all need to find a more suitable process flowchart.
we have to draw up the process flowchart if we want to use this, this is quite simple and easy to understand.
http://www.grainchain.com/14-to-16/technology/baking-process.aspx
This is website has more detailed flowcharts on pages 23,34,43. Its all on processing fishes.
ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/ccfh34/ApV0118e.pdf
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Sorry for the late posting of research, didnt have chance to use the computer yesterday. I did quite some research but most of the stuff i found were irrelevant to what we are doing on, which is food. Therefore my research is kind of short, although i have quite a few links.
Ideal process flowchart
A process flowchart is usually used to simplify and clarify how the process is moving, it also provide room for improvements of the process. For example, redundant steps could be cancelled out when improving the process flowchart (1). The process flowchart to be used should show the actual process flow instead of the process flow that is ideal (2). An I deal process flowchart should include all important details such as storage temperature, cooking time or equipments involved (3).
Importance of product specifications
The Product specification is important because analytical tests are performed to make sure that the quality of the product conforms to specification and requirements. This way, end products with quality that do not meet requirements are screened and removed before shipment. Thus, the company that acquires the product can be assured that majority of the product are free from defects before processing them with other raw materials (4).
1)Methods & Tools Flowchart
http://www.qaproject.org/methods/resflowchart.html (cited 20/4/08)
2)Flow charting
http://quality.enr.state.nc.us/tools/flowchart.htm (cited 20/4/08)
3) Flowcharting Help Page (Tutorial) by Dexter A. Hansen
http://home.att.net/~dexter.a.hansen/flowchart/flowchart.htm (cited 20/4/08)
4) Watson Inc. - Importance of a Certificate of Analysis
http://www.watson-inc.com/quality_importance.php (cited 20/4/08)
Ideal process flowchart
A process flowchart is usually used to simplify and clarify how the process is moving, it also provide room for improvements of the process. For example, redundant steps could be cancelled out when improving the process flowchart (1). The process flowchart to be used should show the actual process flow instead of the process flow that is ideal (2). An I deal process flowchart should include all important details such as storage temperature, cooking time or equipments involved (3).
Importance of product specifications
The Product specification is important because analytical tests are performed to make sure that the quality of the product conforms to specification and requirements. This way, end products with quality that do not meet requirements are screened and removed before shipment. Thus, the company that acquires the product can be assured that majority of the product are free from defects before processing them with other raw materials (4).
1)Methods & Tools Flowchart
http://www.qaproject.org/methods/resflowchart.html (cited 20/4/08)
2)Flow charting
http://quality.enr.state.nc.us/tools/flowchart.htm (cited 20/4/08)
3) Flowcharting Help Page (Tutorial) by Dexter A. Hansen
http://home.att.net/~dexter.a.hansen/flowchart/flowchart.htm (cited 20/4/08)
4) Watson Inc. - Importance of a Certificate of Analysis
http://www.watson-inc.com/quality_importance.php (cited 20/4/08)
Friday, April 4, 2008
Process flowchart
Very difficult to find this online. Why? If you think about the company's point of view, i think it's difficult to even put up your list of ingredients up online. But i guess it's okay because it's compulsory to put it on your product label anyway. So knowing the ingredients is easy, how about the process? Putting the process flow chart online is as good as letting everyone know how to make your product step by step. Nevertheless, i tried to find it on google image last night, only managed to find two. The reason why i used google image instead of google, is because flowchart is usually saved as an image file.
Cheese Making
Quite a simple process flowchart on cheesemaking, temperatures and processes all given. However one drawback is that we may not know the process that cheese making uses
Salad
Very detailed background information on the salad making process in terms of biological, chem and physical hazards. However i think the process flowchart is inadequate because temperatures for cooking are not given.
Cheese Making
Quite a simple process flowchart on cheesemaking, temperatures and processes all given. However one drawback is that we may not know the process that cheese making uses
Salad
Very detailed background information on the salad making process in terms of biological, chem and physical hazards. However i think the process flowchart is inadequate because temperatures for cooking are not given.
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