Protein

Protein Processing Solutions

In meat and poultry processing, there’s a wide margin for error and a narrow margin for profitability. That doesn’t leave you with much room to work. Whether you’re an integrated processor or not, you can’t always control the raw material arriving at your plant, nor the price of inputs and shifts in consumer demand. You can’t control your customers’ product requirements or food safety regulations. But you can control what happens on your lines — and MAVERICK Technologies can help you optimize each aspect of the process for the best business benefit.

MAVERICK works with major chicken, beef, pork and turkey processors to maximize profits while minimizing the negative effects of commodity markets. With MAVERICK as your partner, you’ll gain a better picture of what’s happening in the marketplace and in your plant at any given time so you can adjust accordingly. You’ll have the insight and tools needed to optimize what you produce and how you produce it, enabling your organization to become more profitable and competitive. Our meat and poultry processing experts will roll out solutions to all of your facilities for consistent operations worldwide.

Depend on MAVERICK for complete consulting, business intelligence services and industrial automation services. Our focus is on improving your profitability and helping you produce the products you expect to produce. Through our understanding of the unique culture of this industry, we are able to design and implement solutions that meet your exact needs. Our teams do it all — optimizing your further processing lines with MES, integrating your ERP systems, enhancing your controls, developing functional specs for line expansions and more. MAVERICK will help you:

• Optimize your product mix and meat block to maximize margins.
• Ensure product safety and quality for compliance with USDA regulations and customer requirements.
• Control, monitor and record data at critical control points for HACCP compliance.
• Utilize traceability systems for comprehensive product tracking.
• Leverage further processing systems to improve the efficiency of your process.
• Implement industry best practices to help manage the cost of feed and other inputs.
• Visualize plant information and metrics on dashboards to enable better business decisions.
• Effectively plan and schedule in order to manage workloads, throughput and time to market.
• Increase automation to reduce labor costs and improve efficiency.

Improve your product quality, production efficiency and overall profitability with MAVERICK’s solutions for meat and poultry processing.

Food Safety Audit Rationalization Tool Implementation

Today’s food processors, industrial users, retailers and growers face more scrutiny than ever before for their safe handling practices. Food suppliers must ensure food safety with an effective management framework, guarantee product performance and maintain compliance to best-known manufacturing and agricultural practices. Business partners primarily rely on audits to assess food safety in response to:

• Increased consumer awareness of product failures
• The need to protect the brand
• Increased government oversight and expansion of performance-based regulatory standards
• Pressure from special interest groups and activists
• International trade agreements and barriers due to the manufacturing of unsafe products in least-cost countries

Buyers are demanding more second- and third-party audits in an effort to protect their own interests and to evaluate companies that provide services to certain market segments. For this reason, the protein industry has seen a significant rise in the number of audit standards. Technical staff must now spend most of their time operating the food safety framework, leaving little time for product improvement, innovation and developing the technical relationship with their customers.

To address this increase in audit standards and the burden on technicians, MAVERICK Technologies developed a special audit rationalization solution. This tool allows users to maintain the document-oriented content of the food safety framework in an online document repository and to tie audit standards directly to the content of these documents.

Features of MAVERICK’s audit rationalization solution include:

• Easier maintenance of the food safety framework
• Powerful search capabilities
• Ability to view the food safety framework in relation to a particular audit standard
• Rapid gap analysis between the as-is framework and a particular audit standard
• Web-based access to most current documents
• Option to present the food safety framework to an auditor online rather than in a binder format
• Content control and management acceptance through workflow
• Ability to reuse documents for many audit standards, improving efficiency
• Version control to restrict viewing of prior versions
• Ability to use prior or current versions as templates for new documents
• Exceptional security, even when sharing documents with business partners
• Protection of proprietary content not subject to a particular audit
• Electronic signatures supporting 21 CFR Part 11

Experience all the benefits of improved food safety framework management with MAVERICK’s audit rationalization solution.

Protein Processing Expertise

MAVERICK’s expertise in meat and poultry processing comes from years of experience working in the protein industry. Our team of protein processing business consultants, IT specialists and engineers develop solutions that address the unique challenges facing today’s chicken, beef, pork and turkey processors. Many of these team members have decades of experience working in close partnership with major corporations in the industry. Meat and poultry processors depend on us for quick, turn-key projects as well as for long-term execution of strategic initiatives.

The MAVERICK protein industry team has vast experience in the following areas:

• Best practices for chicken optimization, beef production optimization and other aspects of protein processing
• Food safety and compliance
• Process automation, control system upgrades and legacy migration
• Optimizing information systems from a range of vendors
• Increasing product value to maximize profit
• Global, multi-site solution deployment

When you partner with MAVERICK, you benefit from our industry-specific expertise as well as our strength as one of the largest independent systems integrators in the world. Leverage our experience for your next project.

Protein Industry Resources

Explore the links below for more information regarding meat and poultry processing, the protein industry and the current state of food safety.

U.S. Protein Industry Regulations

USDA Regulations
Find regulations, directives and notices from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

HACCP & Pathogen Reduction
Find information about Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) requirements and testing.

HACCP Updates & Memos
Get the latest on this important regulation.

Compliance Assistance
Download FSIS compliance guides and food safety inspection podcasts here.

Protein Industry Associations

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) is the national trade association representing U.S. cattle producers. 

National Chicken Council
The National Chicken Council (NCC), based in Washington, D.C., is the national, non-profit trade association representing the U.S. chicken industry.

National Pork Producers Council
The National Pork Producers Council conducts public-policy outreach on behalf of its 43 affiliated state associations.

National Turkey Federation
The National Turkey Federation is the national advocate for all segments of the turkey industry.

U.S. Poultry & Egg Association
The U.S. Poultry & Egg Association is the world's largest and most active poultry organization.

WATT Poultry
WATT Poultry is the largest poultry-specific magazine in the United States, covering the integrated poultry industry.

Additional Beef Resources
Find a portal to Web sites funded by the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the Federation of State Beef Councils.

Publications

Beef Magazine
BEEF, America's leading cattle publication, publishes 12 monthly issues for cow/calf operators, stocker-growers, cattle feeders, veterinarians, nutritionists and allied industries.

Meat & Poultry
Meat & Poultry is the business journal for meat and poultry processors.

Pig Progress
Aimed at the international pig industry, Pig Progress translates scientific
knowledge and practical experience in a way which can be used by all readers.

Poultry Processing Magazine
Poultry Processing Magazine is the completely new source of information for the global poultry processing industry, written for poultry meat professionals.

World Poultry
Aimed at the international poultry industry, World Poultry translates scientific knowledge and practical experience in a way which can be used by all poultry professionals worldwide.