INDUSTRY EVENTS
Sustainable Production in Nutrition Industries: An Adifo Software seminar by Rebecca Sherratt, Features Editor, Milling and Grain
On October 3rd Milling and Grain had the pleasure to be invited to Adifo Software’s feed seminar, entitled ‘Sustainable Production in Nutrition Industries’, hosted inside the glamorous Villa Park, the famous Aston Villa football stadium in Birmingham, UK. Taking place over the course of one full day, the event featured eleven insightful presentations on feed formulation and nutrition with, as the title of the event suggests, a key emphasis on sustainability and responsible sourcing of ingredients. Although a wide variety of topics were covered at the event, I found each and every presentation extremely informative. I also appreciated how Adifo ensured to raise crucial questions regarding how we, as an industry, are expected to continue to feed our animals whilst also ensuring we source our ingredients responsibly.
BESTMIX: Sustainably sourcing feed for the future
BESTMIX Development Manager Karel Vervaet served as moderator for the event, opening the event by stating, “Adifo believe sustainability will only grow to become more and more important for the feed industry. This is reflected in our latest BESTMIX and MILOS innovations: innovation is key to Adifo”. The first presentation of the day was hosted by Lenny Dauw, Operations Manager for BESTMIX at Adifo. His presentation, entitled ‘BESTMIX Roadmap’ covered the various challenges Adifo have faced in improving their iconic BESTMIX product line. He also hinted at the newest addition to the BESTMIX family: BESTMIX SPECTRACK, which was discussed in more depth by his colleague Hans Hermus, Product Manager for BESTMIX. 102 | December 2019 - Milling and Grain
BESTMIX SPECTRACK
So, what new features does SPECTRACK have to boast about? It turns out there is plenty. “The solution offers a much more harmonised, future-proof technology that is easy to deploy and maintain”, Mr Dauw notes. “With SPECTRACK, Adifo can bring innovations to the market at a much faster pace”. Later in the afternoon, Mr Hermus went into more detail regarding the exciting new opportunities SPECTRACK offers users. As well as integrating easily with previous BESTMIX solutions, SPECTRACK is able to add validation rules, prerequisites for risks and users can also add optional fields to monitor their feed ingredients and processes. The new solution also offers adjustable and extendable templates, as well as custom alerts for verifications or reminders. Comments can also be added through all steps of the processing chain, so colleagues can raise points with one another effortlessly through the digital system. Mr Peter De Letter, Product Manager for BESTMIX Premix and Ration Formulation at Adifo also discussed BESTMIX innovations, particularly in regard to ease of use and accessibility. The home screen of BESTMIX can now be easily customised, with drag-and-drop menu tiles to remove anything deemed unnecessary. Menus are also now simplified, so intricate commands remain hidden away, in order to clearly see the most essential features of the system and to and avoid confusion. Additional features also include the ability to save workflows, create templates with pre-loaded fields for ingredients and the ability to automatically detect and add certain parameters to remove the endless repetition