Focus Works, Inc.  

This system gives management far more control over manufacturing operations. Controlling all manual ingredient scaling, additions and operator instructions, and the automated control of bulk ingredients and mixing.

PRIMS:

• Provides Batch & Ingredient Lot Tracking
• Eliminates Recalls due to Product Errors
• Performs Quick Mock Recalls
• Increases Production Yield
• Optimizes Scheduling
• Reduces Batch Cycle Times
• Eliminates Operator Errors
• Reduces Ingredient Losses by 95%
• ​Give you a Perfect Batch Every Time

We have become the recognized leader in Production Control & Food Safety software systems for the baking and food industry. 

Our mission is to produce software solutions that provide a six month or less return on investment for plant automation processes. Focus Works can provide total integrated plant solutions, helping bakery and food manufacturing plants reduce their waste and inventory losses and increase their production and most importantly improve their product quality.

You may have discovered there are quite a few food and bakery software packages on the market, each with a myriad of features, some better than the other. Not many connect to the plant floor production equipment. We provide a uniquely comprehensive solution that has this ability and can handle receiving, processing, through shipping. Including nutritional labeling and warehousing, and paperless food safety.

Now if you are looking in this direction, your question is why you would pick Focus Works. The best reason we can give you is that we are not focused on selling the typical solution as our competitors are. We also can supply you with all of your software requirements, as you will see in our portfolio. And these systems all work with each other. Each of our systems is modular and you can start off with just what you need and build upon it. We also bring you our expertise in production control, food & baking and food safety.

If you are planning for company growth you want a supplier that can also work with your future needs and that would be Focus Works.

This Paperless System helps eliminate risk in your Food Safety Plan. Dramatically reduces QA and QC labor and record keeping time. It increases the reliability of your compliance data. The SQF-Sentinel provides real-time verification and eliminates human error. For SQF, BRC & ISO food safety plans.

The SQF-Sentinel can collect data from a wide variety of devices such as:

• PC terminals
• Wireless Tablets & Handheld Devices
• Programmable Logic Controllers
• Remote Measurement Devices
• Metal Detectors
• Check Weighers and Scales

Focus Works has developed a PRIMS-DESSERT version for complex dessert and cake manufacturers. It has advanced functionality and tools not available in other scaling, batching and manufacturing software for bakeries. PRIMS (Production Recipe Ingredient Management System) is a software-based automation solution that allows food processors to obtain superior product quality and reduce the cost of wasted raw materials.

These functions include:

• The ability to handle multi-level sub-recipes (sub-components) each having different production time schedules with processing and QC checks along the production line. It provides precise accountability of all materials and operations along the production line.
• Production scheduling that has unlimited number of days or months with a 21-day viewing window with a real-time view of the mixing, baking and finishing operations simultaneously.
• Calculation of the raw material requirements based on work orders and open ingredient purchase orders for the schedule on a day to day basis. Handling multiple SKUs in packaging.
• Enhanced WIP handling and instant visibility at a glance of any raw material shortages on the schedule.
• Change orders get handled automatically on the fly and adjust WIPs and raw materials automatically.
• Special handling for baking & finishing.
• Full accounts receivable with sales reporting. It allows for unlimited price lists, custom pricing by customer, discounts and promotional pricing, brokers and multiple customer’s companies.
• Handles combination of SKUs in one finished goods package.
• A huge variety of reports including; customer and product ranking, product cost and margins by product or customer.

PRIMS performs your ingredient and batch lot tracking and recalls. The PRIMS system can also operate the hand scaling, auto batching, production equipment and quality control on the plant floor.

Besides scaling and batching, the operator can scan and record the ingredient lot numbers, print barcode labels, record product temperatures and perform gravimetric checks. Other QC checks can be performed such as check weights, product comparison pictures and measurements. It also connects with inline check weighers and metal detectors.

It offers wired or wireless network connection.

This station works with our PRIMS, SQF-Sentinel Food Safety and Scope Efficiency software systems, working with the three jointly and seamlessly.

The Station Includes:

• Large 15-inch Washdown Duty Touch Screen
• Large 18” x 18” 100 lb Stainless Steel Bench Scale
• Micro Scale for Small and Gravimetric Weighing
• Temperature Probe
• Barcode Label Printer
• Barcode Scanner
• Heavy-Duty Stainless-Steel Frame
• Locking Wheels or Feet

It is cost effective and easy to implement. You will always know where your inventory is in your warehouse – even if it’s a freezer! No more inventory reconciliation or counting pallets. When inventory enters or leaves the warehouse you will always know the amount and by who. Each label is read by door sensors and room sensors.

Get Reports in Seconds!

See your production results, downtime, and scrap values and get efficiency and downtime reports and graphs in seconds!

• Data Can be Linked to PRIMS for Real-Time Info
• Customizable for Any Plant
• Create Reports & Graphs Instantly
• Increase Production Efficiency
• Easy to Use

Stop wasting time with Excel. This software can be configured for any plant with multiple production lines. After it’s setup you can create reports and graphs in minutes!

The Scope interfaces with equipment PLCs, PCs and Tablets.

It also interfaces with open source data bases in other software.

It also displays data to large screen plant floor monitors.

Scope is a powerful data collection & reporting tool.

Scope can show the efficiencies and downtimes in real-time and can compare historical data reporting. It also provides configurable messaging and alarming. This Production Data consists of Counts, Downtime, Scrap and Labor. If you have PRIMS installed most of this data will be automatically populated

Table Top Scale with PRIMS Software Installed

This is a great starter package for smaller bakeries.

A starter system you can grow with.

• Large 15” Touch Screen
• Multi Lingual – Switch Between languages
• Remote PC Connection with Wireless Ethernet
• Connection for Bar Code Scanner
• Connection for Bar Code Printer
• Upgrade to Multi-Scale Hand Scaling Version