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Ending cold-chain breaks in food transport
A cold store and the fleet delivering to customers, where a cold-chain break only showed up on delivery, the product already compromised.
A representative scenario, built from the problems we see most often in this kind of site. Exact figures vary from one installation to another.
Starting point
The warehouse has two cold rooms and a fleet of four refrigerated trucks on a daily city round. Temperature was read off a dial thermometer, checked now and then.
Main problem
A cold-room door left ajar or a truck's refrigeration unit failing were only discovered at the next delivery, by which point there was nothing left to do but write off the batch.
Solution put in place
Temperature and door sensors in the cold rooms and the trucks feed COA Frio, which shows the fleet on a map and alerts as soon as temperature drifts out of range, in time to fix it before the load is lost.
Key results
In the six months following installation:
cold-chain breaks logged
response time to a temperature excursion
of deliveries with a record ready for the customer
Day to day
What the team sees on screen
COA Frio — Frota em rotaFleet on the road, with each trailer's temperature and the warehouse cold rooms' status.
Camião 3 — FichaA truck's record: temperature, door, refrigeration unit and the day's deliveries.
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