OPC efficiency depends on several factors to help minimize your downtime between production runs. At its root is the requirement/expectation of repeatability and hygienic compliance.
Why Could Current OPC Practices Put Your Food Safety Under Threat?
The simple repetition involved in OPC is essential toward achieving the consistent results you’re looking for. It’s a simplicity that can create assumptions. These often inform the perception that any failure to achieve the best clean has only minor consequences.
However, inefficient cleaning risks over or under use of resources, which in turn threatens hygiene standards. Any risk to food safety from microbial contaminants also threatens consumer health and can have serious long-term impact on your brand.
You need to know that your cleaning minimizes the potential for cross-contamination between production runs, by providing effective removal of food soils, allergens, and microorganisms from across your open processing environment.
Human Error and Increasing Production Pressures
The difficulties of employee retention can also contribute to lack of compliance. Especially if your training is not up to speed, and procedures are not fully understood, or carried out correctly. While the time required for efficient OPC means that strict adherence might come under pressure from the need for a quick turnaround.
There are also ever-present pressures to do more with less resources and to meet profitability and sustainability goals which require cleaning processes that run at peak performance.
Changing Your Approach Drives Food Safety
Diversey's OPC drives enhanced food safety. The combination of our global sector expertise, cleaning chemistries, process control, monitoring, and data analysis help ensure that your open production areas are cleaned consistently and effectively.
We’ve developed a distinctive approach built on measurable results, efficiency, and sustainable innovation. We use strategies that achieve incremental gains while retaining the traditional OPC virtues. While insight and data-driven analysis can reveal hidden truths and add value which drives broader additional benefits for your business.
Changing Your Expectations Means No Trade-Offs
We recognise that no food processor wants to make trade-offs between savings, sustainability, compliance, and hygiene. That’s why each of the innovative solutions that make up our OPC program deliver results as part of a careful formula. By reinventing and reshaping performance for the challenges the industry faces, we can lift your expectations of what your OPC can achieve, including:
Delivering OPC with more efficiency, consistency and reliability
Saving time, water, and chemicals
Ensuring stricter compliance, protecting food safety, consumers, brand reputation and assets
Helping drive sustainable cleaning solutions, profitability, and reduce TCO
System Assured Food Quality and Safety
The System Assured protocol and planning tool underpin your quality, safety, and consistent hygiene performance, also helping to reduce your sustainable footprint. You can be confident of secure, reliable outcomes based on monitoring and validated cleaning protocols. All backed by appropriate chemistries.
How can you be sure of hygiene compliance when there’s no certainty around measuring clean?
OPC is time and resource intensive. Measuring success depends on operator overview and behaviour, which doesn’t reveal the full picture. Manual cleaning has left the food processing industry relying on assumption. Typically, there’s no continuous performance monitoring and reporting system to ensure optimisation.
Process control and compliance is essential. Our monitoring and assessment tools evaluate whether cleaning processes are performing as intended. By standardising cleaning procedures, concentrations, contact times, and application methods, Intelligent OPC reduces variability between operators, helps identify underperforming cleaning routines, and lowers the risks that could lead to contamination.
Gaining Back Precious Time Without Impacting Food Safety
Rapid turnaround is crucial to your profitability. Applying the rinse innovations that are key elements of Diversey’s OPC portfolio can help shorten your cleaning window.
Diverclean Sonic is a pre-cleaning step technology that reduces the need for time consuming pre-rinsing with the added cost benefit of application with existing equipment. As utility and labour costs continue to soar, the Diverclean Sonic protocol can significantly reduce overall cleaning time and labour requirements, along with downtime, without impacting hygiene standards, for savings in four key areas:
Time (Cleaning) – Up to 35% savings
Water and Wastewater – Up to 20% savings in each
Energy – Up to 20% savings
Chemicals – Up to 20% savings
Engineered to meet the specific demands of the industry, in particular for high soil areas, Diverclean Sonic is extremely effective in cleaning stubborn oily soils and deposits of protein, fat and tallow.
Expertise That Targets Every Aspect of Your OPC
Rapid innovation in processing technologies means your site engineers, managers and technologists need precise knowledge on the systems and technologies in use. To ensure optimum benefits, any workforce must be fully trained. Our cloud-based Hygiene Academy platform delivers convenient e-learning that you can tailor to your precise circumstances to minimize risks to your food safety and brand reputation.
Verifying the Bigger Picture
Taking the place of assumption, verifying and auditing your cleaning is crucial for food safety. Intelligent OPC drives improved traceability and compliance, enables benchmarking, and identifies continuous improvement opportunities through data and expert assessment.
With documented evidence of cleaning performance, it’s easier for you to demonstrate compliance with regulatory needs satisfy customer audit requirements. Consequently, risks from allergens, residues, and microorganisms are reduced.
The Confidence That Intelligent OPC Brings
Intelligent OPC addresses your key challenges by consistently measuring the variability of cleaning parameters - rinse time, pressure, product concentration, and contact time - to create a detailed record of each clean. This ensures cleaning is performed using the correct chemicals and methods to contribute to your peace of mind.
With Diversey’s OPC approach, you can also be sure that you are using a system that is the result of a complete ground-up reappraisal of traditional OPC. Our knowledge and sustainable innovations help you meet the increasing challenges to the industry head on and let you plan for the future, confident that your food safety is itself in safer hands.
