Coolearth Software

Columbus Foods re-invents sausage production

ztoryteller — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:39:15 +0000

The retooled Columbus Foods plant near San Francisco may be the first sausage plant in history that you would WANT to see the process unfold.

Working with Coolearth Whistle and QCResults software, and guided by Coolearth consultants, the plant for the first time can track every ingredient, from every source, and monitors every step from processing through packaging all the way to the individual stores.

Coolearth Releases QCResults, first cost-effective quality data-gathering system

ztoryteller — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:43:18 +0000

PRESS RELEASES – April 15, 2011

Food technology is one of the toughest quality challenges, with zero margin for error. Even defining what quality is can be difficult.

Federally-regulated HACCP plans place burdens on every food service company to monitor complex products on a molecular, biological, and physical level. This creates massive data-recording and record-keeping requirements, and adds stress on every employee without necessarily making the production process itself more manageable.

Coolearth Software, working with its clients to create a SQL database that can collect and store HACCP data, has now unveiled the first cost-effective, comprehensive solution to this challenge.

QCResults automates quality data acquisition through both digital monitoring sensors and human data entry. The software works in tandem with camera-equipped mobile devices to store data and upload to the servers with maximum speed and minimal keystrokes. Once captured, the quality data is instantly compared with expected norms for every reading, so that immediate feedback is available. This feedback can cue machine operators about dangerous readings, maintenance chores, suboptimal trends, and even supply chain adjustments to keep operations running smoothly.

User-customizable screens, instant data intelligence, process control power, easy-to-mine SQL database capacity, and a host of mobile hardware options make this not only the first, but the best available quality assurance system for the food automation sector.

QCResults will revolutionize your quality assurance operation: Most data will now be captured automatically, and instantly compared to the standards you have set. Machines can be programmed to stop, indicate warning conditions, or simply record the sub-optimal log entries. Companies will be able to say goodbye to clipboards, filing cabinets and keypunching, and ordinary line operators will now be able to evaluate trends and predict difficulties before they happen.

Your QCResults SQL database can talk to third-party inventory and ERP systems, as well as ISO 22000 consultants and HACCP reviewers.

QCResults is the first truly affordable system in this space, and your ROI will flow from manufacturing labor savings, vendor ingredients savings, quality control labor savings, and reduced costs due to fewer product defects and production line shutdowns.

About Coolearth Software
Coolearth is a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions to food & beverage, chemical, and other process manufacturers. Solutions from Coolearth are designed to fulfill the unique needs of hybrid production facilities requiring integrated warehouse management and shop floor execution solutions. Coolearth products go beyond traditional warehouse management systems built for distribution centers by cutting costs and improving efficiency throughout the entire production facility.

Columbus Foods Corporation Selects Coolearth Software’s Supply Chain Execution Solution

mal — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:01:21 +0000

Columbus Foods Corporation Selects Coolearth Software’s Supply Chain Execution Solution to Streamline and Improve its Data Collection and Operations

A success story that epitomizes the American Dream began when the Italian-born founders of this family-owned business first came to America in 1917, bringing their traditional Italian recipes with them. Company founders settled in the predominantly Italian neighborhood of North Beach, in San Francisco, California. They soon realized that San Francisco’s mild weather and relative humidity were similar to that of Milan, Italy—and ideal for the production of salame. They opened the Columbus Salame Company, the cornerstone of Columbus Foods, and began producing superior quality, dry salami based on authentic, time-honored recipes.

90 years later, Columbus Foods boasts a workforce of 500 employees located in three manufacturing facilities and one Distribution warehouse across the San Francisco Bay Area. Besides marketing super premium salami and deli meats renowned for their authenticity, flavor and quality under the Columbus, Ticino and Buon Gusto Brands, Columbus delivers over 6000 products to specialty grocers all across the 9 Bay Area Counties. A “family-owned” culture still exists, anchored by an unmistakable passion (and expertise) in specialty foods – as we like to say, “Mangia. Viva. Amore.”

Columbus Foods is based in Hayward, California, and is comprised of two divisions: Columbus Specialty Brands, manufacturer of award-winning salami and premium deli meats and Columbus Specialty Products, nationally recognized supplier of fine foods for the retail and specialty food markets.

Columbus Foods Selects Coolearth Software’s Supply Chain Execution Solution

ztoryteller — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:52:28 +0000

PRESS RELEASES – June 1, 2010

Columbus Foods Corporation Selects Coolearth Software’s Supply Chain Execution Solution to Streamline and Improve its Data Collection and Operations

Coolearth Announces its Latest Customer for the Whistle SCE solution

mal — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:00:33 +0000

Coolearth Software announces its latest customer for the Whistle SCE solution, a family-owned International cheese and food ingredient company headquartered in Minnesota with cheese and food ingredient companies throughout the U.S. and world wide sales offices and partners. Coolearth’s Whistle Supply Chain Execution (SCE) solution and its Plant Floor Data Collection system and advanced integration expertise will be utlized by this organization which produces 370 million lbs. of cheese annually and is one of the largest suppliers of cheese to Kraft Foods along with being a pioneer in whey protein isolate research.

Minnesota cheese manufacturer chooses Coolearth Whistle SCE solution

ztoryteller — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:57:05 +0000

PRESS RELEASES – February 1, 2010

Coolearth Software announces a notable new customer for the Whistle SCE solution … a family-owned international cheese manufacturer and food ingredient company headquartered in Minnesota. This company, which keeps its vendor partners proprietary, owns and operates cheese and food ingredient companies throughout the U.S., and conducts world-wide sales operations through its international subsidiaries and partners.

Coolearth’s Whistle SCE solution - Supply Chain Execution - and its Plant Floor Data Collection system will be utilized by the Company to help improve the efficiency of its cheese-making operation and supply chain … currently producing over 370 million lbs. of cheese annually.

Coolearth’s advanced integration expertise will also be employed in this exciting project. Coolearth personnel are thrilled to be providing systems integration and consulting services to one of the largest suppliers of cheese to Kraft Foods — and a company that is a pioneer in whey protein isolate research.

About Coolearth Software
Coolearth is a leading provider of SCE solutions to food & beverage, chemical, and other process manufacturers. Software products and consulting services from Coolearth are designed to fulfill the unique needs of hybrid production facilities requiring integrated warehouse management and shop floor execution. (SCE solutions). Coolearth products go beyond traditional warehouse management systems built for distribution centers by cutting costs and improving efficiency throughout the entire production facility.

Cooke Aquaculture, Inc.-Announced as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies

mal — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:59:51 +0000

Coolearth is extremely pleased to present this recent Press Release on one of our superior customers, and an industry innovator and leader.

Please refer to the following PDF document on this recent announcement:

http://www.cookeaqua.com/images/pdfs/BM2008ENNationalRelease.pdf

Coolearth-LaserMotive Vision Project recognized in CNNMoney.com-Fortune Small Business Article

mal — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:59:08 +0000

TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS

Even before the Games, LaserMotive’s work is already paying off for some team members. Carsten Erickson, CEO of Seattle-based supply-chain software maker Coolearth Software, invested in LaserMotive and joined the team in October 2006 after seeing a talk about the space elevator at a robotics conference. Since then, Erickson has worked evenings and weekends to develop a computer-based tracking system that can follow LaserMotive’s robot as it climbs the cable and steer the system’s laser to make sure the beam stays trained on the robot’s solar panels.

Erickson had never worked with laser-tracking systems before, but he quickly saw how similar technology could be used to great effect at his own $2 million company. He used his LaserMotive prototype to design a computer-based quality inspection system that can identify and reject defective products on an assembly line—a system he is already busy marketing to his clients.

“Working on LaserMotive has been inspirational,” Erickson says.

Read the article online at:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/13/smallbusiness/space_elevator.smb/index.htm?postversion=2009081512

Coolearth Announces Machine Vision System for Process-Industry Manufacturers

mal — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:58:36 +0000

Coolearth Software presents current and future customers with a Whitepaper for the CEVS-Coolearth Machine Vision solution. This new application provides a highly unique and technologically-advanced application which allows for sophisticated, automated Quality Inspection procedures on the manufacturing shop-floor. This document includes an overview of the automation processes, integration, an analysis of expected savings and advantages, a description of the proposed project, and a preliminary project timeline.

Please contact us for the latest version of the Whitepaper:
website.contact@coolearth.com

Coolearth Announces Pre-Release of the Quality Management System for Process-Industry Manufacturers

mal — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:57:56 +0000

Coolearth Software presents current and future customers with a Whitepaper for the CEQMS-Coolearth Quality Management solution. This new application will provide extensive capabilities for collecting and analyzing Quality Control data, which will be available as a stand-alone system or as an integrated and integral extension to the Whistle-warehouse management and shop floor data collection solution and CEVS-Machine Vision system. This document includes an overview of the automation processes, integration, an analysis of expected savings and advantages, a description of the proposed project, and a preliminary project timeline. This new Coolearth solution will be available for general release October, 2009.

Please contact us for the latest version of the Whitepaper:
website.contact@coolearth.com