Watch Tower · Applied Intelligence for your Business · Food and beverage processors

An asset register and map for food and beverage processors

The goal: Run the line at plan, keep every food safety record complete, and trace any lot in minutes.

Your sites, vehicles, equipment and people go into one asset register (Vulcan), imported from the files you already keep, and onto one map of the United States (Talos). Every asset has an owner, and every card and KPI can point to the asset it's about.

Open the free demo A fictional company in your industry, opened in the Console. No card needed.

What you see

Talos map in the Watch Tower Console

An illustration of the Talos map: sample job sites, a site boundary and a storm cell on a dotted map of the United States. — Every site, vehicle and machine on one map of the United States, with your region up close. An illustration with sample data. The demo opens a sample in your industry.

For plant managers and food safety leads at small and mid-size food and beverage plants

What it looks like for food and beverage processors

The KPIs, cards and questions below are examples of what we set up with you. The names and units are made up.

KPIs, with the assumption behind each

Line uptimeRun time as a share of scheduled production time, per line.Assumption: Planned sanitation and changeovers are left out of scheduled time.

Monitoring records completeRequired monitoring checks recorded on time, as a share of those due.Assumption: From the food safety plan's monitoring schedule.

Lot trace timeMinutes to list every ingredient lot and customer for one finished lot.Assumption: Measured in a quarterly mock recall.

Cards on the work tracker

Close the corrective action from yesterday's metal detector checkQA lead · due Today · Line 2 metal detector
Run the quarterly mock recall on a finished lotFood safety lead · due Fri · Lot 26-1013-A
Fix the chiller that's caused three stops this weekMaintenance lead · due Wed · Chiller 1

Records you already keep

Production and downtime logs
Food safety plan records (monitoring, corrective actions, verification)
Supplier approval and lot records
Sanitation and maintenance logs

Assets in the register

Production lines
Cold storage and dry storage
Critical equipment (ovens, chillers, metal detectors)
Suppliers

Questions your team can ask Bifrost

What caused the most downtime on line 2 last month?
Which monitoring checks were late this week?
Which suppliers' approvals expire this quarter?

Bifrost answers from the records in your own workspace and shows how each number was worked out.

How it runs

Asset register and map, step by step

Send the list you already keep: a spreadsheet of sites, units and equipment is enough to start.
We import it into the register and show you what's there and what's missing.
Your sites and assets go on one map, with an owner for each one from your organization chart.
Cards in the work tracker and KPIs on the brief point to the assets they're about, so you can follow a problem to the asset behind it.

The barriers this crosses

Use: What exactly would I use it for? We name the specific uses by role and by industry: the decision, the calculation, the plan, the brief.
Capability: How do I use it, what do I install, and who do I call? We curate the tools, set them up, teach them in plain language and stay reachable.

Rules and facts for food and beverage processors

What the records have to show

Facilities covered by FDA's preventive controls rule must have a written food safety plan prepared, or overseen, by a preventive controls qualified individual.Source: 21 CFR 117.126, Food safety plan
Records required by the preventive controls rule must be kept for at least two years after they're prepared.Source: 21 CFR 117.315, Requirements for record retention

A summary for planning work, not legal advice. Check the source for the full rule and any state requirements.

Start

See it on a sample company first

Founding 10

$2,000 for setup and the first 3 months of Watch Tower, then $250/month. Ten places. We set up your team, goals and KPIs, asset register, map and work tracker with you, then review it with you every week.

Hardware implementation is quoted separately. Start with the demo; you can order from inside it.Open the free demo

Questions

Common questions

Is Watch Tower a food safety compliance system?

No. Keep your food safety system. Watch Tower puts the actions around it (who closes which corrective action, by when, on which line) next to your production goals, with a weekly review.

Does the map show GPS positions from our trucks or machines?

Not yet. Positions on the map come from your records (addresses, yards, job sites and the locations you keep). Connected GPS tracking isn't released yet, and we'll say so plainly until it is.

What if our asset list is messy?

That's normal. We import what you have, then give you a written list of gaps, duplicates and assets with no owner, and fix it with you in week 3.

What does Watch Tower cost for food and beverage processors?

Founding 10 covers setup and the first 3 months in one payment, then a monthly price; the numbers are on this page and on the pricing page inside the demo. Hardware implementation is quoted separately.

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