Connected MES + QMS + LIMS + auto customer-CoA

From FIBC unload to sealed customer bag — one auto-generated CoA your customer's QA already trusts.

V5 Ultimate runs every step your regulated-manufacturer customers audit — Approved Supplier + FSVP qualification, barcode-scanned receipt of every super-sack, gravimetric dispense against the locked formula, ribbon-blender uniformity, moisture / aw / particle size / micro in the LIMS, per-customer release specs, kosher / halal / organic / non-GMO chain of custody, and an auto-generated customer-CoA in your customer's format at bag-off. No retyping, no Excel drift, no rejection at the customer's incoming QA.

Built for FSMA preventive controls, customer specifications, and Kosher / Halal / Organic certifications.

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One thread, FIBC unload to customer-CoA

step 01

Supplier & receive

FSVP · CoA · cert chain

step 02

Dispense

Gravimetric · to the gram

step 03

Blend

Uniformity · live

step 04

LIMS & release

Moisture · micro · 2-sig

step 05

Bag-off & label

Auto customer CoA

step 06

Dispatch

Customer · co-man · trace

One system, three lenses

The same blend record — seen the way you run the plant.

For a B2B blender or custom-formula house, the small wins compound with every super-sack. Finance sees higher yield on premium proteins and premixes. Operations sees the next changeover clear the ATP swab on time. Quality sees a CoA your customer's incoming QA will accept without a phone call.

The CFO view

Higher first-pass yield on premium proteins and premixes — dispense drift squeezed, customer rejections killed, and true cost per bag finally on the page.

Per-blend actual cost: powders, premixes, packaging, labour and rework — visible in $, today.
Lower giveaway from gravimetric dispense and in-blender uniformity checks — no over-add of expensive premixes.
Fewer customer incoming-QA rejections from CoA transcription errors and spec-column drift.
Most blenders see V5 pay back inside year one and keep compounding.

Blend yield · todaylive

Peanut protein 42

+4.4 pts

Bake mix pancake

+3.2 pts

Sports pre-workout

+2.8 pts

Cocoa premix 22

+4.1 pts

Soup base savoury

+2.0 pts

Premix over-add killed7-day

+$48,720

Dispense drift falling ↓

Cost per 25-kg bag · today

$34.85 / bag

● Premix 62%● Pack 14%● Labour 14%● QC 10%

+11 pts

First-pass yield uplift

Formula lockdown, gravimetric dispense and in-blender uniformity catch drift at the feeder, not final release.

−48%

Blend review-and-release cycle

Self-building blend record and auto customer-CoA — no evenings retyping results into an Excel template.

Daily

True cost per bag produced

Actual powder, premix, packaging and labour cost posted from each blend — not month-end reconciliation.

Customer CoA rejections from transcription

Results flow from released blend data into the customer's template — no manual typing.

Walk the process

From the FSVP-qualified super-sack to the customer's incoming-QA CoA — one formula-locked thread.

Follow one blend. Every step below is a single screen in V5 — and the FSMA Preventive Controls, allergen matrix, kosher / halal / organic chain of custody and customer-specific spec library run underneath them all.

Step 01 · Approved supplier, FSVP & receiving

Qualified supplier, verified super-sack, certification chain intact — before a scoop reaches the blender.

Every powder, premix, flavour, mineral, vitamin, protein and starch is tied to a qualified supplier with a live supplier CoA, allergen declaration, GFSI certificate and — for imported ingredients — a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) record. FIBCs, drums and 25-kg bags are barcode-scanned at goods-in, sampled per plan, and their certification status (kosher, halal, organic, non-GMO) is carried lot-by-lot into segregated stores. A missing CoA, an expired FSVP or a broken chain of custody rejects the pallet at the dock — not after it's tipped into the blender.

Ingredient receiving dock with a warehouse operator in white smock, hairnet and blue nitrile gloves scanning a barcode label on a stack of 25-kg kraft bags of food-grade powder

Step 02 · Gravimetric dispense & ribbon-blender uniformity

The only formula the line can run is the released, customer-approved version — drift from the spec is physically impossible.

The approved formula snapshots into every work order — immutable, rev-locked and pinned to the current customer spec. Loss-in-weight feeders and gravimetric dispense verify each minor and micro ingredient to the gram. Ribbon blender time, RPM and mixer temperature stream to the batch record. Blend uniformity samples pull automatically at defined positions in the blender, and a formulation change routes through QA and — where claim-affecting — the customer's approval before a new rev reaches the line.

+11 pts

first-pass yield with formula lockdown & gravimetric dispense

−48%

blend release cycle vs Excel + email CoA workflow

Ribbon blender in a hygienic dry-mix production room with a light-tan blend inside and an operator at a touchscreen HMI

Step 03 · Moisture, particle size, micro & assay

The blend can't ship until every customer-spec attribute is green — and the reviewer sees every OOS in one place.

V5 runs a full ingredient LIMS in the same tenant — moisture (Karl Fischer, moisture analyzer), water activity (aw), particle size (sieve stack, laser diffraction), bulk / tapped density, colour (L*a*b*), assay (HPLC, FTIR, NIR), heavy metals (ICP-MS), mycotoxins (LC-MS/MS), pesticide residue, allergen swab (ATP + protein-specific ELISA) and micro (APC, coliform, E. coli, Salmonella, yeast, mould). Any OOS opens an investigation and blocks the next operation. Two-signature release — production and QA — closes the blend record before dispatch.

Ingredients QC technician in white lab coat, hairnet and blue gloves at a lab bench with a moisture analyzer, particle size sieve stack, HPLC and small clear sample jars of powder labeled with lot codes

Step 04 · Bag-off, checkweigh & auto customer CoA

One finished blend lot, one customer-CoA in their format, one QA-signed bag — no retyping into Excel.

Every 25-kg kraft bag, drum and FIBC super-sack is filled by net-weight, checkweighed, metal-detected and labelled with the current-rev bag label — SKU, lot code, best-by, kosher / halal / organic marks and customer-specific artwork. At bag-off, V5 populates the customer's CoA template from the released blend data — customer's spec limits, methods, columns and header — and dispatches it with the shipment. No transcription errors, no version drift, no customer incoming-QA rejection because a spec column moved.

Automated bulk-bag and 25-kg bag filling line dispensing a tan powder into a kraft bag on a checkweigher with a print-and-apply thermal label showing lot code and CoA reference

Step 05 · Dispatch, customer distribution & traceback

"If a supplier just flagged aflatoxin OOS — which regulated-manufacturer customers are exposed?"

Every pallet ships with the customer-CoA, GS1-128 SSCC, chain-of-custody marks and a bag manifest tied to the released blend lot. When a supplier flag, a customer complaint or an FSMA Preventive Controls event triggers a stop-sale, V5's lot + bag tree paints the affected bag ranges and destinations — forward from the finished blend and backward to every input powder, premix, flavour and packaging lot that built it. A CoA retraction with the recall-notice pack drafts itself.

Auto CoA retraction & recall packCustomer / co-man / country traceForward & backward genealogy

The blend genealogy tree

A supplier flags an aflatoxin OOS on peanut-flour lot PF-8820. V5 walks the tree — the finished blend that used it, the bag and FIBC ranges dispatched, and every regulated-manufacturer customer exposed. Pull the lever to draft the customer-CoA retraction and recall notice instantly.

downstream · 4 regulated-manufacturer customers

Cereal co-man · Batavia IL

120 × 25-kg · PO 44120 · shipped

Bakery ingredient DC · Dallas

90 × 25-kg · PO 44155 · in transit

Snack manufacturer · Reno

18 × FIBC · PO 44201 · shipped

Nutrition brand co-pack · Utah

10 × FIBC · PO 44218 · shipped

2 pack formats dispatched

25-kg kraft · bag range B-4410–4620

210 bags · SKU PB-BLEND-42

FIBC super-sack · bag range S-115–142

28 super-sacks · SKU PB-BLEND-42-FIBC

1 finished blend lot · customer CoA record

BL-24-1104 · Peanut-oat protein blend 42

238 units · recipe rev D · customer CoA rev D · 2-sig released

upstream · 4 input lots

Peanut flour · lot PF-8820

Supplier S-042 · aflatoxin OOS

Oat flour · lot OF-1150

Supplier S-018 · organic cert ok

Whey protein · lot WP-3390

Supplier S-071 · kosher pareve

Vitamin premix · lot VP-660

Supplier S-105 · assay pass

Affected units

Customers notified

Forward depth

2 hops

Backward depth

4 lots

Running underneath · maintenance, sanitation & allergen changeover

Blender PM, sifter verification, dust collection & Master Sanitation Schedule — on the same tablet as production.

Built-in CMMS with dry-blend-native asset types — ribbon blenders, paddle mixers, sifters / screeners, gravimetric feeders, cyclones, dust collectors, magnets, metal detectors, checkweighers, bag-off / FIBC fillers and palletisers. PM schedules, Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), dry cleaning + push-through / flush verification, magnet / metal-detector test-piece verification and allergen changeover sign-off run on one calendar. An out-of-cal instrument, an overdue MSS task or a failed metal-detector verification physically refuses to release a blend.

Maintenance engineer in navy coveralls and hairnet servicing a stainless steel ribbon blender and sifter with a torque wrench and tool trolley in a clean dry-blend production room

Running underneath · quality, FSMA PC & certifications

Quality, FSMA Preventive Controls and certifying-body chain of custody run through every blend — not stapled to the record at the end.

Incoming inspection, in-process checks, two-signature release, internal audits, CAPA, customer complaints, FSMA Preventive Controls monitoring records, kosher / halal / organic / non-GMO mass-balance and certifying-body evidence packs — all in one loop, all tied to the affected blend and input lot. Operators are blocked at the workstation if allergen or FSMA PC training has lapsed. Suppliers are blocked at goods-in if a CoA, FSVP or GFSI certificate has lapsed. Audit evidence — FDA FSMA inspection, SQF, BRCGS, FSSC 22000 and certifying-body — is a single indexed export.

Ingredients QA reviewer in a modern office reviewing an electronic Certificate of Analysis template on dual monitors with spec limits and micro results visible

The V5 quality kit — for a dry-blend plant

Every quality feature in V5 — mapped to a B2B ingredients + dry-mix blender.

The same platform that runs pharmaceuticals and medical devices — set up for the way an ingredients house actually receives, dispenses, blends, tests, bags-off and releases a lot under 21 CFR Part 117, FSVP, GFSI (SQF / BRCGS / FSSC 22000) and certifying-body scheme rules.

Approved Supplier Program & FSVP

Configurable per powder, premix, flavour and pack. CoA + FSVP + kosher / halal / organic verified at receipt; expired qualification blocks goods-in automatically.

dry-blend plant: Peanut flour · supplier S-042 · CoA + FSVP · organic

Gravimetric dispense & uniformity

Loss-in-weight feeders and gravimetric dispense verify majors, minors and micros to the gram. Blend uniformity samples pull automatically — an OOS uniformity opens a deviation.

dry-blend plant: Vitamin premix · 0.42 kg · ±0.5% · uniformity RSD 2.8%

Two-signature release

Production + QA review-and-release before any blend ships. Every gate signed with a validated e-signature — identity + meaning captured.

dry-blend plant: Blend BL-24-1104 · 2-sig released

Deviation, complaint & customer feedback

One workflow from issue raised through root cause, action, verification and close. Linked to the affected blend, workstation, operator, supplier and customer — customer complaint routes to the correct account team.

dry-blend plant: CX-4408 · customer incoming-QA · assay OOS

Formula & CoA lockdown

Formulas are immutable, rev-locked and tied to the customer's current spec. Current-rev customer CoA template pinned per lot — the CoA engine refuses to render a superseded spec.

dry-blend plant: Blend PB-42 · rev D · customer CoA rev D

Supplier scorecards & re-qualification

On-time delivery, CoA quality, FSVP status, GFSI certification, deviation rate and audit findings rolled into a live supplier score. Expired qualifications block goods-in automatically.

dry-blend plant: Supplier S-042 · OTIF 96% · FSVP ok · GFSI ok

Kosher / halal / organic / non-GMO chain of custody

Certification status carried lot-by-lot from receiving through blending, packaging and shipping — with mass-balance evidence and certifying-body scheme rules enforced at each step.

dry-blend plant: Organic mass-balance · in 1,200 kg → out 1,196 kg · 99.7%

Auto customer-CoA in your customer's format

The CoA engine renders results into the customer's preferred template — their column order, method IDs, spec limits and letterhead — from released blend data at bag-off.

dry-blend plant: PO 44120 · cereal co-man CoA · 3 columns · assay pass

Retain samples & stability

Retain samples booked into the retain library per lot with location, disposition and expiry. Stability studies scheduled per blend and pack — appearance, moisture, aw, assay and micro pull-points tied to formulation.

dry-blend plant: BL-24-1104 · retain 2 × 500g · stability 12-mo

Talks to your kit

Live on your blenders, feeders, sifters and bag-off lines — no rip-and-replace.

We connect at the level your engineers and QA team expect — OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, REST, EDI, file drops, SQL. Most blenders are live on day one with the ribbon blenders, paddle mixers, gravimetric feeders, sifters, metal detectors, checkweighers and bag-off lines already in the plant.

Blending, dispense & sifting

OPC UA and Modbus links to Munson, Marion, Ross, Amixon ribbon and paddle blenders; K-Tron, Coperion, Schenck, Acrison loss-in-weight and gravimetric feeders; Sweco, Russell Finex, Kason sifters and screeners. Blend time, RPM and dispensed mass logged straight to the batch.

Magnets, metal detect & checkweigh

Bunting and Eriez magnets; Mettler-Toledo Safeline, Loma, Anritsu, Ishida metal detectors and checkweighers. Reject events, test-piece verifications and giveaway data streamed to the batch — a failed verification hard-stops the line.

Bag-off, FIBC fill & label

Concetti, Premier Tech, Haver & Boecker, Choice Bagging bag-off and FIBC fillers; Videojet, Domino, Markem-Imaje, Zebra thermal-transfer and print-and-apply labellers. Current-rev customer bag label and CoA reference pinned per lot at the line.

Lab instruments & LIMS

HPLC, FTIR, NIR, ICP-MS, LC-MS/MS, moisture analyzer, Karl Fischer, particle size, aw meter, colour spectrophotometer. Direct connectors for Waters, Agilent, Thermo Scientific, PerkinElmer, Mettler-Toledo, HunterLab and Malvern Panalytical.

ERP, WMS & customer portals

SAP, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, Infor, JustFood, Aptean. Customer EDI, ASN and customer-CoA delivery per customer preference — email, SFTP, portal upload or API.

BI & data warehouse

Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Snowflake, Databricks. Direct SQL access to your tenant — your data, your queries, your validated reports.

See the full integrations overview

Audit-ready, every day

21 CFR Part 117, FSVP, GFSI & certifying bodies — at the data layer.

The records build themselves as the blend is executed. When the FDA FSMA inspector, an SQF / BRCGS / FSSC 22000 auditor or a kosher / halal / organic certifying body walks in, the evidence pack is one click — not a week of re-assembly.

21 CFR Part 117

FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food

FSVP

Foreign Supplier Verification Program (where applicable)

Customer specs

Per-customer specs as binding release gates

Cert programs

Kosher, Halal, Organic, Non-GMO chain of custody

Go-live in 10 to 16 weeks

Fixed-price, named team, one product family live before you pay for the next.

Week 1–4·step 01
Discovery & floor scan
We walk one product family with your team — formulas, customer spec library, CoA templates, allergen matrix, kosher / halal / organic certifications, existing ERP and WMS fields. Out: a fixed scope and price.
Week 5–9·step 02
Configure & integrate
Material master, formulas, per-customer specs, LIMS methods (moisture, aw, particle size, assay, micro), customer CoA templates, blender / feeder / sifter / metal-detector / bag-off integrations and ERP feeds loaded.
Week 10–13·step 03
Pilot & train
One product family live in pilot. Three-shift operator training on the floor with the actual UI — not slides. UAT signed by QA, production and operations.
Week 14–16·step 04
Go live & hyper-care
Cut over. Two weeks of hyper-care with your named delivery team on-site. KPIs published on the wall before we leave.

Cloud-hosted, US & EU regions· SOC 2 controls, SSO, audit log· Validated change control, QA-signed release

What buyers ask us

The first six questions on every dry-mix RFP.

How does V5 auto-generate a customer-CoA in the customer's preferred format?

Each customer has one or more CoA templates in V5 — their column order, method IDs, spec limits, units, header, letterhead and delivery channel (email, SFTP, portal upload, API). At bag-off, the CoA engine pulls released blend data into the correct template per customer and per SKU. A formula change or a spec-column change flags the template as out-of-date and routes it through QA before the next bag ships. There is no retyping, and there is no way for a superseded spec to render on the shipped CoA.

How does V5 handle FSMA Preventive Controls and FSVP for imported ingredients?

Preventive controls (allergen, sanitation, supplier, process) live as structured records in V5 with monitoring, corrective action, verification and validation — all signed and version-controlled. FSVP hazard analysis, supplier verification activities (audit, sampling, CoA review) and reassessment schedules are tied to each foreign supplier and each ingredient. An expired FSVP verification blocks the pallet at goods-in, not after it's dispensed.

How does V5 handle kosher, halal, organic and non-GMO chain of custody and mass balance?

Certification status is a first-class attribute on the ingredient master and inherits to every formula and blend. Certifying-body scheme rules (Organic 7 CFR 205, kosher, halal, non-GMO Project) drive segregation, changeover and mass-balance evidence. V5 computes mass balance per certification per period and flags shortfalls before the certifier audit. Kosher, halal, organic and non-GMO artwork is pinned per lot at bag-off.

Will V5 talk to our ribbon blenders, loss-in-weight feeders, sifters, metal detectors and bag-off lines?

Almost certainly. We support OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, REST, EDI and direct SQL — with working connectors for Munson, Marion, Ross, Amixon blenders; K-Tron, Coperion, Schenck, Acrison feeders; Sweco, Russell Finex, Kason sifters; Bunting and Eriez magnets; Mettler-Toledo Safeline, Loma, Anritsu, Ishida metal detectors / checkweighers; Concetti, Premier Tech, Haver & Boecker bag-off; and Videojet, Domino, Markem-Imaje, Zebra label printers.

We run tolls for multiple customers on one blender — how does V5 keep them separate?

Customer roles are explicit on every formula, blend, e-signature and audit event. Each customer's formulas, spec library, CoA templates and artwork sit in their own tenant workspace with an audit-log wall between them, and QA sign-off routes to the correct customer's spec. A customer sees their blends and their CoA history; the toll operator sees the site — both defensible under 21 CFR Part 117 and customer supply agreements.

What about IT — validated change control, SOC 2 and GFSI / certifying-body audit prep?

Cloud-hosted in US and EU regions, SOC 2 controls, SSO (SAML / OIDC), full audit log and validated change-control process applied to every regulated screen. Where an SQF, BRCGS, FSSC 22000, FDA FSMA or certifying-body audit (kosher, halal, organic) is scheduled, the evidence pack maps section-by-section — supplier program, formulas, dispense, uniformity, micro, allergen, traceability, mass balance, recall — from released blend data.

Ready to see it on your blend record?

Book a 30-minute walkthrough with a dry-mix specialist.

We'll show a live self-building blend record, formula lockdown, gravimetric dispense verification, moisture / particle size / micro in the LIMS, two-signature release, auto customer-CoA generation in your customer's format at bag-off and a mock supplier-flag traceback — on a workspace seeded for a working ingredients + dry-mix plant.

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Fixed-price go-live · No platform lock-in · Onboard in 10–16 weeks

Different operation?

Pick yours — every industry gets its own compliance posture.

Medical Devices

Class I/II/III device manufacturers — eDHR, UDI, design controls.

Pharmaceutical

Drug manufacturers, compounders, OTC — full cGMP batch records.

Dietary Supplements

Vitamins, sports nutrition, nutraceuticals — 21 CFR 111 ready.

Food Processing

FSMA 204, HACCP, GFSI — preventive controls and traceability lots.

Bakery & Confectionery

Allergen control, label accuracy, sanitation cycles — without paper.

Produce Packing

FSMA Produce Rule + 204 — field to case in one clean record.