Certification of origin is one of the key factors within the seafood industry and it is important for safety and quality assurance to be able to trace a specific product to its origin.
The Product Manager from Trackwell is a system that keeps track of all production registration onboard and links the product data to fishing grounds and catch activity data collected by the Electronic Logbook. This enables tracing of fish products all the way to the location and time where and when the fish was caught. The system also maintains information on production value, packaging usage, utilization factors and quality inspections.
Product Manager has been installed onboard several factory vessels in the North Atlantic, with positive feedback from the captains and users. The registrations from the vessels are collected in a database on a central server, enabling company managers to monitor the latest information on the catch and production, along with the tracking and positioning of vessels. Information such as product registrations and QC inspections can be registered directly at the processing deck into a common database on the bridge. This eliminates multiple entries of data and saves effort.
Product Manager also keeps track of the value of the catch per haul. It can also be used to monitor the cost, time and effort of the fishing expedition. The system logs the speed and sailed distance of the vessel along with all its activity, including when hauls begin and towing times. It is therefore possible to link the oil consumption with the fishing activity in order to analyse the actual cost per kilogram of catch. This also makes it possible to estimate the cost of different options of fishing in advance for the captains. In order to improve things, they have to be controllable and measurable. The monitoring of the cost is therefore very important to ensure the most sustainable way of fishing.
Seafood Processing Global 2014
Stand 4-6127
