Technical Management
Ideally suited to medium sized businesses with sales in the range of $20M to $100M per year. Mike manages the product development and quality assurance staff and reports to the MD or CEO. This gives the technical staff on site access to a wealth of experience and knowledge and also a mentor to assist their long-term career development. The business gets access to his knowledge and experience, professional network and relationship with Woolworths, Coles and Aldi. This is normally a long-term relationship at one or two days per week.
Technical Consulting - short term projects with specific outcomes
Our focus area is microbial preservation technology and food safety. We have experience in most preservation processes including cook/chill, UHT, sterilisation, pasteurisation, hurdle technology, modified atmosphere, freeze drying, vacuum drying, desiccant air drying, refractive window drying, fluidised bed drying, spray drying, high pressure processing, plant hygiene and fermentation. MBC has a close working relationship with Quantal Biosciences. Combining the manufacturing experience of MBC with the higher level scientific and laboratory experience of Quantal delivers practical real-world solutions that are scientifically sound.
Technical Consulting - process design/trouble shooting
We have extensive experience in the following sectors:
- Mayonnaise, salad dressings and sauces
- Acid pasteurised sauces
- Retorted products
- Cook/chill
- Fermentation
- Fresh Cut Salads
- Fruit and vegetable processing
- Bakery
Manufacturing Cost Reduction
We have developed an approach to reducing manufacturing costs and have now implemented this in 6 x plants with sizes between $15M and $140M in sales per year. In each plant, we have reduced manufacturing costs by between 2% and 4% of net sales. The approach balances three components; empowerment of operators to suggest improvements, a business process to allow the suggestions to be effectively assessed and prioritized and high level technical input to identify additional opportunities. This is typically one day per week relationship over a time frame from six months to two years.