warehouses

Understanding Warehouse Temperatures: The Warehouse Office

Over the last two months, we posed the question: ”Is figuring out the temperature of your warehouse like trying to understand alchemy?” because that’s something that we ask ourselves here at Dickson all too often. These questions inevitably lead to more questions about warehouse mapping, and...

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Understanding Warehouse Temperature: Seasonal Changes

Last month, we posed the question: ”Is knowing the temperature of your warehouse like alchemy?” because that’s something that we ask ourselves here at Dickson all too often. This question inevitably lead to more questions about warehouse mapping, and honestly, answers are hard to come by....

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Understanding Warehouse Temperatures: The Bay Door

Is knowing the temperature of your warehouse like alchemy? That's something I ask myself, and the wonderful people in the Dickson office, all too often. Other things that come up: Why is it so hard to map a warehouse? Where are the accepted standards? What kind of coffee are we drinking today? Are...

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The WORST Temperature Mapping Mistakes

Sometimes knowing what NOT to do is better than knowing what to do. The overload of information on how to validate your warehouse, refrigerator, or incubator can leave one wondering if there is anything you can do incorrectly.

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Warehouse Audit Survival Guide: Pharmaceuticals

Last month we wrote to all the foodies on how to survive a warehouse audit. We called it our ”Food Warehouse Audit Survival Guide.” This month, we’d like to take on another industry that owns and operates warehouses: pharmaceuticals. In keeping with our oh so original title, we present the...

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Warehouse Audit Survival Guide: Food Warehouses and the FDA

FDA Inspectors can cause a bit of anxiety. No one wants their company’s name in the papers for a salmonella or listeria outbreak. We get that. In order to help you foodies out a bit, we wrote our very own “Warehouse Survival Guide for Food Storage.” This is by no means an end all be all list, and...

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3 Tools To Measure Mean Kinetic Temperature (With a Downloadable Validated Calculator)

Mean Kinetic Temperature: used by many but understood by few. For the food and pharma industries, knowing the Mean Kinetic Temperature (MKT) of a product or group of products during storage or shipment can be crucial to quality, safety, and falling in line with your auditing agency.

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7 Steps To Successful Warehouse Temperature Mapping

Not enough manufacturing supervisors, supply chain managers, or vaccine coordinators map their environments. However, you did a little research, figured that temperature mapping might be a good idea and want to learn the steps to be successful at it, which is awesome. So congrats!

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European Union Good Distribution Practices: Key Takeaways

A few weeks ago, the European Union made some changes to it’s “Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of medicinal products for human use.” We realized it had been a few months since we had updated our own knowledge of these practices, and instead of read through them, stomach the information,...

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The Cloud, Cold Chain, and Validation: A Dickson Presentation

Yesterday, we brought you a presentation presented by Dickson's Sales Manager, Nick, at a Cold Chain Conference in Dubai. Today we bring you a presentation from Nick's travel-mate, the DicksonOne Product Manager, Matt, on "The Cloud," and Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring.

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