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Table of Contents
Table of Contents......................................................................................................................................................................... iii
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................... v
Material Ordering Process ......................................................................................................................................................... 3
Step 1: Order Created from Customer .............................................................................................................................. 3
Raw Materials Ordered ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Materials Received and Stored .............................................................................................................................................. 3
Production Process ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Grind Room.............................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Cook Room............................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Drying Room ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Chiller Room............................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Slice Room ................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Shipping Process ......................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Boxed Pepperoni.................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Shipped Pepperoni................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Introduction
Introduction
The objective for this manual is to provide the user with instruction on how to process pepperoni
in a manufacturing plant. There are several critical steps that must be followed in the plant in
order to produce pepperoni that will be saleable to customers in the food industries. This manual
is to inform users the simplest form for making pepperoni. The user must be trained on the
equipment before it is used to prevent any safety issues.
Stored
When the raw material are delivered to the dock
door a material handler verify the paperwork with
the truck driver and if everything checks out he
begin to verify the weighs. A quality assurance
technician inspects the product to make sure the
material are within the customer specification and
approve for production. When QA release the
truck the receiving clerk enter those weighs and
the number of containers into the computer system
into their correct location.
Production Process
Shipping Process
Production Process
Step 1: Grind Room
The forklift driver delivers the raw material to the grind to be process. The formulator looks at
his pick tickets to see what ingredient needed.
Shipping Process
Shipping Process
Once the pepperoni has been sliced it is place on a conveyor belt and transfer to the eagle
triangle. The eagle has about 50 triangle and the slice bulk pepperoni makes it was to the
available triangle to be place in the plastic bag and sealed. The plastic bags can hold up to five to
twelve pounds per bag. When the appropriate weigh is meet the eagle seals the bag. The bag is
dropped back on the conveyor belt where it goes through a metal detector to be clear of any
foreign objects. If the metal detector keeps the product back the product goes on hold until that
batch can be verify by a quality assurance technician. If everything checks out the product is
ready to be place in a box.
Metal Detector
Pouch Packing
Shipping Process
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Shipping Process
Step 1: Boxed Pepperoni
Once the product have been placed in the box from
production it goes through the auto box machine where it
seal the box and place it on the palletizer. This process is
repeated until the pallet is full. The pallet is shrink rapped
to keep the boxes stable. The forklift operator takes the
pallet and place it in inventory in the correct bin. It will sit
in inventory until the product is release from a three day microbiology hold.
Packaging Machine
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