Winning Products don’t just Happen. Food Engineering Solutions provides a well defined product development process to guide your idea from Concept to the Market Place.

 

 

Product concept:

Starting with the target market and consumer profile, a complete product concept will be developed.

Process assessment:

The manufacturing process is analyzed to determine the production capacity, quality controls, and applicable process technology.

Prototype Formulation:

To develop the product formula with ingredients and methods of preparation and to simulate the plant scale process. At this stage, an ingredient list and calculated nutritional
panel are established according to marketing and quality parameters.

Preliminary costing:

A full production costing is carried out to determine if the economic goals will be accomplished.

Packaging:

Best packaging alternative is selected according to marketing goals and manufacturing capacity.

Plant Formulation:

A plant size formulation is developed, including raw materials, packaging, processing instructions and process controls. A plant formulation can be used to build the ingredient list for label registration and nutrition information and possible health claims. For more information see our Food Label service

Process instructions:

To support your company training program, detailed process instructions written as Standard Operation Procedures are developed.

Quality controls:

A process flow diagram and process/quality control points will be developed to support an existing or future HACCP plan.

Final product and process costing

A product costing statement is developed, this includes ingredients, packaging and labor cost per unit, case and batch.