Farm to Fork Solution with
PTC-THINGWORX Platform
Farm to Fork Solution with PTC-ThingWorx is a
service that enables companies to transport
produce and meat grown at farm hundreds of miles
away and deliver it as fresh as if it were grown
locally. With our scale of consumption and our need
for a large variety of food items, it is next to
impossible to source all our foods locally. Hence, we
must depend on farms across multiple countries for
our food items. In an unconnected world it was a
challenge to guarantee the freshness of the food
items over the distance and time. However, our
'Farm to Fork' solution now allows for remote
monitoring of all physical parameters, such as
temperature and humidity, to ensure that produce
and meat remain fresh throughout the journey until
it reaches the shelves of your local grocery.
The ultimate goal of our 'Farm to Fork' solution is to
deliver fresh food to you while virtually eliminating
wastage and improving profitability throughout the
supply chain.
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Our Farm to Fork solution
addresses the following
business challenges.
 Compliance with various
food and environmental
regulation.
 Continuous real time
monitoring of the condition
of perishable goods at
required temperature and
humidity till the final
destination.
 Freshness and high quality
of goods from source to
destination.
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SOLUTION
Our Farm to Fork service integrates
the power of telematics, sensors, and
various telecommunications
technologies to provide a
comprehensive solution where mission
critical data is captured and sent to
business analytics servers.
The solution enables real time
alerts/notifications on threshold
violations. It also monitors the real
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time position of the vehicle. All of this
ensures that quality of produce is
monitored across its journey from the
farm to the fork, and corrective
actions are taken on a predictive basis
to avoid quality deterioration. If and
when quality deterioration occurs, the
solution provides traceability and audit
data that prevents the re-occurrence
of such events.
SOLUTION APPROACH
 Integrating the power of telematics,
sensors, and various
telecommunications technologies to
provide a comprehensive solution.
 Machine to Machine connectivity to
monitor temperature, humidity etc. in
real time.
 Ability to track orders and shipments
across the supply chain
 Monitor shipment status throughout
supply chain with proactive event
notification and milestone tracking.
 Knowledge of inventory at various
locations.
 Informed supply chain analytics.
 Alerts, dashboards and reports
rendered to visibility systems, mobiles
or handhelds.
 Holistic view to e2e supply chain
visibility replacing complexity of
dealing with myriad of systems.
Figure 1: solution overview
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SOLUTION BENEFITS
Monitor storage temperature and
humidity levels ensuring food quality.
 Comply to food safety regulations
FDA or various country food
regulations require maintenance
records for containers - No
dependency on transport vendors
for container maintenance records
for temperature and humidity
regulations.
 Save Time & Money
Automated system tracks and
stores of all data. No more manual
data tracking and organization. Various automated reports for easy
monitoring - Track shipment
location and transport stages.