Effective temperature controlled freight requires proper control and compliance with industry standards. In the case of veterinary pharmaceuticals and consumables, temperature control and monitoring is an absolute must, to ensure the quality and safety of the goods all the way to the final destination.
About the Customer
A European specialist manufacturer of veterinary pet care products, providing pharmaceuticals, instruments and consumables to the veterinary profession across Europe. Their products need to be shipped within a specific temperature range, so the customer cannot afford limited solutions – they need integrated and accurate temperature controlled shipping solutions.
Key Customer Challenges
Control and monitoring of temperature during transportation to ensure product quality and safety of the veterinary pharmaceuticals and consumables to their distributors.
The customer requires reports to be generated at the time of product delivery, with alarm indications for fluctuations. This provides verification that the pharmaceuticals and consumables remained within the required temperature range for the entire shipment.
The customer preferred to eliminate the shipping costs and handling needed to return each logger to the production plant for data analysis. Hence a low cost single trip data logger was needed. Also a large sample memory is required for long cross-border shipments.
PicoLite Implementation
The company added Fourtec’s PicoLite single-trip, low-cost, USB data logger to the freight packaging of their veterinary pharmaceuticals and consumables from the production plant to the various destinations in Europe.
The PicoLite device is placed inside a cooled container in which the products are transported. The PicoLite device monitors the temperature during shipment, enabling the company to view the data by connecting the device via USB to the computer upon arrival, verifying that the required temperature was in fact maintained.
A PDF report complete with alarm indications, highlighting any deviations from pre-defined thresholds that may have occurred during transportation, is automatically generated as soon as the product shipment has reached its destination with the license-free DataSuite software.
Also available is the simple to use Fourtec weboomerang® application which automatically creates and emails a PDF report to a predefined email address when connected to computer via USB.
Measurable Results
The PicoLite proved to be a cost effective solution, providing accurate and reliable data with detailed analysis of shipments from origin to destination. Its large data memory of 16,000 samples and long battery life of 6 months, ensured that even the longest transportation routes were covered.
The PicoLite single-trip logger cuts out the overhead associated with returning multi-trip data loggers back to the shipper, as well as eliminating the risk that the logger itself is lost.
The weboomerang™ application overcomes the challenge of quickly receiving the trip’s data reports from its customers. When the logger is connected to the computer, the weboomerang™ application handles the rest, up until the point where the report reaches the intended recipients’ inbox.
Fourtec PicoLite is stocked in Australia by Esis Pty Ltd – please contact us for quantity pricing.
(Article courtesy of Fourtec)
