Signatrol - Current Promotion - Cold chain

Revolutionize Your Supply Chain

Cold chain management is a critical component of quality assurance in industries where product temperature must be accurately maintained throughout the whole supply chain. Products can become spoiled or unsafe without careful monitoring and maintaining the correct temperatures, resulting in significant lost revenue.  It is, therefore, essential to ensure that every stopping point or point where a product can drop out of the correct cold storage temperature is considered. This includes transportation and distribution while waiting to be processed or delivered to the end consumer.

Product quality and safety

Effective cold chain supply management – including humidity and temperature control – is crucial for ensuring that products remain safe and effective throughout their cold chain shelf life from the producer to the consumer. This is particularly true with vaccines. If temperatures exceed a certain level during shipping or storage, products may become damaged. Cold chain management helps ensure that all products sustain the correct temperature from production to delivery, thus keeping them safe.

End-to-end data capture

It is sometimes easy for manufacturers to consider that once a product has left the processing site, where all temperature pinch points should be accurately recorded, which is someone else’s responsibility. While temperature-controlled delivery will identify and log temperature within the vehicle, other points will be further down the line when those products are moved from transportation and placed into cold storage. At this stage, the manufacturer loses sight of the product for which they are ultimately accountable in the supply chain; what happens when the product is dropped off at its final destination, and how long is it left until being stored? These windows mean possible changes in temperature, at that point in time, are not being logged.

Signatrol has recently marketed the tempmate® GM2 real time tracker and data logger that can be used at every step of the cold chain giving the food manufacturer complete oversight of their products’ position, temperature, humidity, light level and shock at any point in its journey, all from the same system.

The tempmate®-GM2 not only monitors the temperature of the goods, but is also a reliable partner in humidity, light incidence, tilt, shock, localisation and extreme temperature ranges from -200°C to +100°C. With this reusable device, food manufacturers also have the flexibility to choose between stationary or mobile monitoring and benefit from the automatic flight mode, allowing them to select the appropriate means of transportation.

With the addition of the single use S2-T data logger you can track your load with the GM2 and monitor the temperature contents of each box with the S2-T.

Using Tempbase cloud software you can see if your load stays within temperature criteria and each individual box. Should you have a box failure the GM2 will tell you where it happened in the journey. This allows you to find areas where critical attention is required. A typical critical could be the tarmac at airports or the offloading bays.