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

A work tracker for food and beverage processors

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

Say what has to get done this week and the work tracker turns it into cards: one owner each, a due date, the truck, site or machine it touches, and the goal it moves. Your team moves the cards; the weekly review reads them.

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

What you see

Work Tracker in the Watch Tower Console

An illustration of the Work Tracker with sample data: one request turned into cards in To do, In progress and Done, each with an owner and a date. — Tell it what you want done this week; you get cards with an owner, a date and a next step. 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

Work tracker, step by step

Tell us the goal that matters most this quarter, in your words.
We set up the board with you: your people, your assets and the recurring jobs you already run.
Each action becomes a card with one owner, a due date and the assets it touches.
Every week we review the board with you: what moved, what slipped and what's next.

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.
Consistency: Will this still be useful next week? We design AI into the daily system: the Console, the toolkits and the career plan people come back to, with customer success that follows up.

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.

Is this another project-management app my crew has to learn?

No. The tracker holds only the actions behind the goals you set with us, each tied to a person and an asset you already have. We add your team, set up the first cards with you and review the board every week, so nobody has to build it alone.

Can cards come from what we already track in spreadsheets?

Yes. In week 1 we take in the spreadsheets or system exports you already keep and turn the recurring jobs in them into cards, with a written list of what was there and what was missing.

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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