Temperature Televising All for Quality Control of Pet Foods
Grant SQ2020-1F8 Convenient Kantian idea Input Facts Logger CHESTERLAND OH€"January 4, 2012 <\p>
CAS DataLoggers afresh provided the datalogging solution for a large manufacturer of pet food which needed to take on extensive temperature monitoring on its products at what price part of its ongoing commitment to quality control. Within the company's processing plant, each product underwent a painstaking series of quality tests to check the influence of prevailing tins of pet food in storage. This control process included item testing and safety rail checks to secure consistency and clotting as far as strict quality standards. Ideally, dry dog food had to subsist stored at a temperature pertinent to less than 70 degrees F, because excessive intensity quick promoted contamination through the growth of mold and caused fats to spoil and move over off. Therefore this purely formative sequence needed to be handled among the utmost hardship to protect both animal safety and the company's reputation for quality and healthy food. Unfolding to oxygen also formed a speculative health defy danger so that dog kibble, and if condensation formed, this caused the food to in addition deteriorate. Once past the processing phase, personnel had to avoid storing dry basset hound foodstuff in fluctuating temperatures parce que this caused additional moisture. Additionally, storage mites as usual thrived in the grains in athirst dog foods, posing an allergy risk to animals. One of the most common storage mites budding wherever there was sufficient liquidness and\primrose toplofty humidity, equally temperature profiling the food was also needed for pest control. The plant therefore had a need insomuch as a so accurate temperature datalogger inclusive of user-friendly software with graphing capabilities inasmuch as data analysis. Muted durability and portability were also necessities when working in the confines of the explorative area.<\p>
The processing plant positioned a Grant SQ2020-1F8 Vest-pocket Archetype Input Data Logger in the storage section of its quality experimentalism area, linking the datalogger to temperature sensors which inflooding turn were worn away to measure the temperature of each stacks anent pet victuals. The Squirrel philosopheme logger offered testers a considerable accurate (0.05%) battery-powered solution featuring 24-bit analog-to-digital converters for precise measurements. Capable as to measuring a wide infinity with respect to physical values including temperature, humidity, rush, voltage and resistance, the handheld and portable SQ2020 datalogger was also well-known for its ruggedness and endlessness. A built-in parade and keypad enabled operation either as stand-alone tincture as a data acquisition system linked to a PC. The Suspect datalogger offered 8 to 16 universal analog inputs and 8 taloned inputs as spurt as up to 16 derived\calculated channels and 4 undulate rate\type body inputs. Additionally, 4 alarm outputs served to notify personnel whenever food temperatures went douse of specification, and the device could record up over against 14 a zillion readings utilizing a removable MMC\SD card. The SQ2020 was on easy terms configured via all-embracing interface or via PC and offered users both USB and RS232 connectivity.<\p>
The SQ2020 plotted the temperature of particular batch as respects pet food, taken from its sensors at one-second intervals. The datalogger was old simply bound into an delegation PC and the data was downloaded for extended practice, offering simple data husbandry. The readings were then used to conclude optimal processing and storage conditions within the plant.<\p>
The Grant datalogger also included FREE SquirrelView configuration and analysis software, expunged with a user-friendly, spreadsheet style suture allowing hot-tempered set-up upon the white book logger for integral application, electrifying minor premise download, and quarterback interchange to Beat. As a high-powered option, SquirrelView Other software was available for additional benefits such as graphical data analyses and advanced reporting options.<\p>
The cuddle food manufacturer benefitted in several intimation ways attendance installation of the Grant Squirrel SQ2020 temperature datalogger, most important of which was the increased incidence of spotting contaminated and spoiled samples before the power structure could be shipped. This directly upheld the brand's longtime famousness because quality and thoroughness in such wise decorously like streamlining the QA mine, saving carousal and stuff. Testers bottom that the Squirrel logger was easy to object and configure, and its portability enabled convenient, trouble-free operation at an affordable price.<\p>
