🍽️ Industrial Kitchen/IV Gama Execution by recipe, batch and line with full traceability

In the production of washed salads, ready-to-eat vegetables or deep-frozen meals, the challenge is no longer just to process food - it is to ensure consistency, safety and traceability, without compromising speed or freshness.

And this is where BRAINR can make a difference.

BRAINR is a platform built from scratch for the food industry, and with application in industrial kitchens and IV range units. BRAINR calls recipes, batches, and production lines in a strict and fully traceable execution - from the supplier to the final packaging.

👩 ‍ 🍳 The case of Patrícia, production manager at FresherFoods

Patrícia is responsible for production at Fresher Foods, a modern IV Gama unit in Ribatejo, which produces thousands of doses of ready meals daily - from couscous with vegetables, cold salads with chicken, to deep-frozen dishes such as cod à Brás.

Monday, 6:30am. Patrícia enters the factory and, as always, begins by opening BRAINR. See immediately the production orders planned for the morning shift - all already with the recipes loaded, the ingredients listed and the batches assigned.

First order: couscous with vegetables, 850 kg for a supermarket chain. Everything is correct in the technical data sheet: the ingredients, the cooking times, the weight tolerances, and the customer's reference. The operators scale the ingredients with a gun, the system automatically validates the batches - and production starts.

🧾 Strict execution, batch by batch

Halfway through production, operator José breaks 5 kg of courgette - excess moisture and inconsistent texture. Register the chargeback on the mobile terminal.
At the end of the order, the yield was 96%.
BRAINR stores everything: yield, batch of courgette, operator feedback, real production time.

⚠️ Patrícia crosses the lot with other data and realizes that it is the second day in a row with complaints about the courgette from the same supplier. Call for shopping.
Problem identified. Action taken. Before it becomes a habit.

🧼 Hygiene, times and observations: everything digital

However, in another line, the production of Russian salad with vegan mayonnaise begins. The cleaning was validated at BRAINR at 11:03am, the times are on schedule, and Line 2 operators note that the mixing machine has a slight abnormal vibration.

🛠️ Patrícia records the alert and calls for maintenance, even before affecting the next order.

📦 Full traceability, paperless

At 13:00, the morning productions are all closed. Patrícia consults the consolidated report for the shift:

📈 average income per revenue
🧾 full traceability of all ingredients
📉 justified breaks and the reason for each chargeback
⏱️ real vs expected production times
📦 lots produced, by destination and by customer

And all of this, without a single piece of paper, without looking for sheets, without asking “who used lot 827?”

✅ It cooks with precision. Intelligent production.

At FresherFoods, the secret is no longer in the sauce - it's in the execution with data.
And with BRAINR, Patrícia went from being a reactive manager to leader with full visibility, capable of anticipating, correcting, and optimizing.

Because in the IV Gama, where every minute and every ingredient counts, producing well is not enough - you have to know exactly how, when and why.

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