Maximize
product yield, quality and safety.
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Complete New System designed specifically for all your cooking, frying and freezing processes.
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Datapaq systems offer the only reliable means of measuring the true product and environmental temperature in process, an essential requirement for HACCP regulations and process validation. You can also use this information to optimize your process temperature. A decrease of only one or two degrees can result in significant financial savings to your company through improved yield and product quality. The food industry is subject to some of the tightest controls in the way its products are produced, stored and sold. The risks to public health place the food processing industry firmly under the public spotlight. The effects of getting the cooking and freezing processes wrong can be disastrous for your business, as well as your customers! |
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The logger, protected by a barrier, travels through the oven or freezer with the product, making a complete record of the temperatures reached by the product throughout the process.
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Easy to set up |
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Send through process
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Analyze
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| Reset the data logger and place the logger inside the thermal barrier. Then connect the thermocouples to your product. | Send the logger with your product through the oven to record the accurate temperature history. | Use Insight software to convert raw data into meaningful information about your process. |
What processes can be monitored?
Datapaq
systems are designed to withstand the harshest environments including
steam cooking, fryers and blast freezers. Any product can be monitored
using the DATAPAQ Food Tracker system:
What are the benefits of temperature profiling?
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Guarantee and prove food safety.
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Maximize product throughput and yield.
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Meet all HACCP requirements for monitoring, control and corrective action of cook/chill processes.
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Obtain consistent food quality, taste, texture and color.
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Quickly correct any hot or cold spots in your oven.
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Provide full process validation documentation to satisfy your customer requirements.
Food Tracker system
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For twenty years Datapaq has been setting the industry standard for ease of use and reliability in profiling. No one equals the ruggedness and accuracy of the system components or the power and ease of use of Insight software. All Datapaq Food Tracker systems are designed to travel through the oven with the product, measuring the true product and environmental temperature throughout the process. At the heart of the system the MultiPaq21 data logger, which records the temperature data, is protected from the heat of the oven by a thermal barrier. The critical product temperatures gathered are analyzed with Insight software, providing detailed reports at a single click. Hundreds of customers worldwide use Datapaq systems in the food processing industry to guarantee and prove food safety for HACCP requirements.
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Thermal
Barriers Datapaq thermal barriers are rugged, easy to use, and offer the best data logger protection in the world. Thermal barriers
come in all shapes and sizes to suit any oven or process, including
water resistant, complete submersion, low height and weight. |
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Software Use Insight software to convert raw data into meaningful information about your process, including instant reports on lethality. Document your
process for increasing productivity as well as formal documentation
such as HACCP. Also available with telemetry for real
time monitoring. |
Thermocouples Datapaq offers a comprehensive range of thermocouples designed to suit a variety of different food products. See also the food tray and thermocouple jig which make it possible to ensure the repeatability and accuracy of conveyorized processes.
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The new MultiPaq21 data logger has up to eight channels allowing you to collect product and environmental temperatures from up to eight locations at once. Using flexible thermocouple cables, the temperature sensors can be positioned precisely within the product, on the surface, or in the air. They can record temperatures without the data logger or its mass influencing the response characteristics of the sensors and thus the accuracy of the readings. |
The data logger is designed to withstand the most hostile of food processing applications and is even rated to IP67 with special waterproof thermocouple connections protecting against steam, water showers and routine cleaning procedures.
The logger will store up to eight profiles before needing to be downloaded. Data logger features:
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6 or 8 channel logger (accuracy +/- 0.2°C/ 0.4°F).
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Simple start/stop options.
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Can record product & environmental temperature measurements simultaneously up to 400°C / 750°F.
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IP67 waterproof rating.
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Serial or USB compatible.
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Rechargeable NiMH battery which lasts for up to 250 hours between charges.
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Stores up to eight separate runs before you need to download the data.
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Interchangeable thermocouples to suit your product.
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Programmable sample interval.
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1.81Mb (900,000
readings) 22 hours (6 thermocouples / 0.5 sec sampling) |
| Sampling interval: | 0.5 sec to
50 min (standard use - temperature only) 2 sec to 50 min (radio telemetry - temperature only) 2 sec to 50 min (temperature and humidity measurement) |
| Accuracy: | ±0.2°C / 0.36°F |
| Resolution: | 0.1°C / 0.18°F |
| Max internal operating temp: | -40°C to 85°C / -40°F to 185°F |
| Data collection start: | Start/stop buttons, time or temperature trigger |
| Battery: | Rechargeable NiMH. Battery life up to 250 hours. |
| Thermocouples: | Type T, British
Standard Class I Type K, Special Limits of Error ANSI MC 96.1 |
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Employing the same insulation technology as used in an aircraft's 'black box', Datapaq thermal barriers are housed in a rugged stainless steel casing, designed to last for many years. Datapaq thermal barriers can withstand the harshest industrial cooking environments including steam cooking, long duration high temperature bakery, or even flash frying where the whole system is submersed in oil. Unlike other commercial systems there is no need to protect the data logger inside your product. Since the barrier can be located away from the product the heating characteristics of the product will not be affected by the monitoring equipment itself. |
Thermal Barrier Specifications
| Part Number | H | W | L | Weight | Thermal
Duration at 200°C / 400°F |
Submersion | Humidity Compliant |
| TB5009 | 60mm 2.4" |
203mm |
389mm 15.3" |
3.65kg 8lbs |
1.25 hours | no | yes |
| TB5010 | 100mm 3.9" |
214mm 8" |
385mm 15.2" |
6kg 13.2lbs |
3.75 hours | no | yes |
| TB5011 | 40mm 1.6" |
193mm 7.6" |
376mm 14.8" |
2.9kg 6.4lbs |
40 mins | no | yes |
| TB5815 | 40mm 1.57" |
174mm 6.9" |
394mm 15.5" |
2.75kg 6.1lbs |
45 mins (air)
22 min (liquid) |
yes | no |
| TB5816 | 65mm 2.6" |
238mm 9.4" |
380mm 15" |
5.3kg 11.7lbs |
2.5 hours (air)
1hour (liquid) |
yes | no |
| TB5817 | 105mm 4.1" |
150mm 5.9" |
360mm 14.1" |
6.3kg 13.9lbs |
4.5 hours
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Convert raw data into meaningful information about your process with Insight analysis software.
Click HERE to download Insight demo software or the Datapaq Paqfile Viewer. The Paqfile viewer allows you to view Datapaq temperature profiles (referred to as Paqfiles) produced by Food Insight and other software packages at no cost.
Features
- Process Analysis: Automatically calculate all your process critical control points to satisfy your HACCP requirements.
- Wizards: Set up your process with Wizards and save training time.
- Lethality Calculations & Reporting: Employ accurate lethality calculations for the micro-organism risk in your particular process and product (F0 value), ensuring your food is of the highest quality.
- Process Optimization & Fault Finding: Quickly locate the exact position of hot or cold spots in the oven, minimizing production loss.
- Reporting: Generate certified and traceable profile reports to satisfy all your HACCP documentation needs.
- With telemetry features and software, you can even watch on your PC and observe the exact moment when your product reaches the required safe cook temperature.
Process
Analysis
Set-up the software to automatically calculate all your process critical
control points, and satisfy your HACCP requirements. Use analysis features
such as maximum and minimum temperature, time above temperature, heating
and chilling rate, and lethality calculations (F0
/ Decimal Reductions) to accurately prove control of your process.
Alarms can be configured within the software for all critical control points so that you know immediately when and where problems occur. Use the same data to recommend and prove corrective action measures.
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Chill
Rate Critical Control Point (CCP)
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Red
alarm status and result cells show
clearly where the CCP has failed. |
Wizards are designed to guide you step by step through a particular process, while at each step giving you the opportunity to 'back up' to a previous step if you realize you have made a mistake. They also cut down on training requirements.
Lethality Calculations & Reporting
Employ accurate lethality calculations for the micro-organism risk
in your particular process and product. This is ideal for process development,
validation and routine QA measures. From your product temperature profile,
calculate against theoretical lethality parameters the F0
value and/or the actual number of decimal reductions (log reductions)
in the population of the target micro-organism. Use this data in comparison
with your defined target values to prove due diligence 'product safety'
for yourself and your customers.
Monitor the change
in F0 through the process, allowing accurate yet
safe process optimization. Know the exact point in your process when the
product has achieved safe cook, avoiding overcook, and increase yield
and productivity.
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Generate
lethality reports to support process validation activities or possible
HACCP corrective action plans.
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Process
Optimization & Fault Finding
Uniform
heating of a product across a mesh belt conveyorized oven is essential
for safety reasons as well as consistency of product appearance and yield.
To help with routine oven servicing and fault finding, the Thermograph
view facility shows the uniformity of heating over the working area of
the oven. You can quickly locate the exact position of hot and cold spots
on the graduated thermal contour map.
Reporting
Generate
certified and traceable profile reports with ease that show graphically
the oven trace and your CCP analysis results to satisfy all your HACCP
documentation needs.
The report shows both the data and the necessary process information. Complement the raw data with notes and memos to explain process observations. Add zone markings and a distance axis so that you can see the product temperature changes in relation to the physical design of the oven. This is ideal for fault finding.
Show with a digital image exactly where the thermocouples were placed in the product or the oven. For batch ovens you can even create a 3D image of the product rack and show where the probes were placed on each shelf. This is an ideal way to remove any confusion for your staff about where to place the probes.
Thermocouples
The new multi-channel MultiPaq 21 data logger allows you to collect
in one run product and environmental temperatures for up to eight locations
at once. The temperature sensors can be positioned precisely within
the product, on the surface, or in the air. They record temperatures
without hindrance from the data logger or its mass influencing the response
characteristics of the sensors.
Thermocouples are supplied with water tight connectors and gold plated connections to provide IP67 rating of the logger. Reliability and accuracy are guaranteed in the most hostile of environments including steam, water, and condensation. Thermocouples can be mixed, matched and interchanged according to the type of process and product. Thermocouple cable lengths can also be customized to match the exact requirements of the process.
Thermocouples supplied in Type K and Type T| Type K | ANSI
MC 96.1 Special Limits of Error |
±1.1°C / 2°F or ±0.4% | 0°C to 1250°C / 32°F to 2282°F |
| Type T | BS
EN 60584.1 Class 1 |
±0.5°C / 0.9°F or ±0.4% | -40°C to 350°C / -40°F to 662°F |
MI
Needle Probe
Used for
measuring ambient or product temperature where temperatures exceed
265°C / 509°F.
Used to measure internal product temperatures for medium to large products. With PTFE cable.
Used to measure internal product temperatures for small to medium sized products or surface temperatures for large products. With PTFE cable.
With location barb to prevent probe movement and handle to aid with insertion. Used to measure internal product temperatures for large sized products typically meat products where probe insertion may be difficult. PTFE cable.
PTFE cable with air temperature sensor mounted on a clip attachment. Used for environmental monitoring of an oven fitted to a product rack or tray used to transport the product.
Used for environmental monitoring or insertion into products in a semi-solid / liquid state prior to cooking e.g. bakery.
Used in combination with a can adaptor to measure the internal product temperature of a sealed can / bottle in pasteurization or sterilization processes. PTFE cable.