Warehouse and controlled-temperature storage commissioned
Ergopharm has commissioned its warehouse, with temperature-mapped storage areas and physical segregation between quarantined, released and rejected material.
A warehouse is where a great deal of quality is quietly lost. Material stored above its labelled conditions degrades without any record of it having happened; material whose status is unclear gets used. Both are addressed by the same two measures — knowing the actual temperature everywhere in the space, and making status physically obvious.
“Put the sensor where the warehouse is warmest, not where the cable reaches.”
Temperature mapping identifies the warm and cold extremes of each area across a full seasonal cycle, and the monitoring sensors are then placed at those worst-case points rather than at convenient ones. Excursions raise an alarm and are assessed against the affected material's labelled conditions before any decision to use it.
Quarantined, released and rejected materials occupy physically separate, labelled areas, with a controlled area for material awaiting a decision. Status in the inventory system and status on the floor are reconciled rather than assumed to agree.
Key facts
- Mapping
- Seasonal study identifying worst-case locations
- Sensors
- Placed at mapped extremes, not convenient points
- Segregation
- Quarantine, released, rejected physically separated
- Reconciliation
- System status checked against floor status