Visit Harford Control at PPMA
on Stand B46

Harford Control will be returning to the PPMA Total Show at the NEC, Birmingham, UK from 24th to 26th September in 2024.

Harford Control announced a solution range update earlier this year. The update includes a number of extra modules i.e. laboratory information management systems (LIMS); energy tracking; raw materials and labour monitoring, all designed to further minimise production risk and wastage, together with increased production effectiveness, whilst maintaining the highest level of quality consistency. We will showcase our end-to-end MIS/MES system on Stand B46 at PPMA.

Discover Harford End-to-End MIS/MES

Harford Control is a market-leading end-to-end manufacturing information system (MIS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) provider with over 55 years of experience in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, chemical and household consumer goods manufacturing.

The Harford system is built to scale across entire factories, from goods-in to despatch. With Harford’s MIS/MES solution, all production-related information is available within a single system. All collected data is analysed, prioritised & distributed to networked PCs, laptops, tablets and mobile phones in real time, so operational personnel can make improvements immediately.

The new solutions and features in the updated MIS/MES system include 4 main areas which are quality, compliance, efficiency and yield.

Ensure Product Quality

Paperless Quality, Lab Quality Management Systems (LIMS), Materials and Process Quality and End-to-End Traceability

Assure Legal Compliance

Vision Inspection, Barcode Inspection, Autocoding, Machine Integration and ERP/SAP Integration

Enhance Production Efficiency

OEE/Operational Efficiency, Short Interval Control, Centrelining, Live Reporting, Labour Tracking and Monitoring and Energy Tracking

Boost Manufacturing Yield

Weight Control, Average Quantity, Process Integration, Energy Wastage Reduction, Raw Materials and Labour Wastage/Monitoring

Who We Have Helped

Half a Century of Continuous Development

The continuous development of our performance improvement systems for more than half a century keeps us at the leading edge of real time factory floor MIS/MES technology. No other single company has created such an impressively integrated set of production modules which so seamlessly work together to form the most comprehensive picture of factory performance.

Without Harford, this picture would need to be created from several different systems, all of which show a part of ‘the jigsaw’ which makes real time process optimisation virtually impossible, especially where these modules interreact and such beneficial co-dependency is essential for performance optimisation.

However, not every module will be required for every application and modules can therefore be omitted with no loss of functionality in the provision of the optimal solution.

“One year after implementation and Hartord has supported us in reducing our bottling losses to less than 0.1%, and has taken our overall end to end liquid losses down by more than 50%”

Tony Brewerton, Plant Director

“Using our Harford system to inform and focus our improvement activities, we have improved the plant output by 12.5% in the last six months with no capex requirements beyond the cost of the Harford system itself. We are also saving £10,000 p.a. simply with better fill height control, based on the information and guidance provided by the Harford SPC module.”

Rupert Hodgkins, Bottling Hall Manager

“Having now installed the Harford system across all our packing lines, I am very happy with our improvement to date. Through it’s well structured hardware and software routines, it has helped us to minimise production risk, improve quality consistency and improve efficiency, whilst eliminating most factory floor paperwork and providing instant traceability.”

Richard Fox, Operations Director

“One of the best things about dealing with Harford is, as well as their team being professional, knowledgeable and helpful, they are all really, really nice people.”

Martin Goerner, Beverages Laboratory Manager

No more product recalls or withdrawals due to incorrect prints or packaging. Improved yield through better weight control. Accurate line efficiency data to drive continuous improvement.

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