Peak Season 2025: Six Ways to Keep Production Running at Full Capacity
When your factory is heading into a busy production period, every second counts. Peak season brings pressure to increase output, maintain consistency, and minimise downtime – all while ensuring safety and compliance standards don’t slip.
To help you stay ahead, we’ve identified six ways to streamline operations and boost efficiency across your production floor. Use the links below to jump to the area most relevant to your site.
Materials Handling Containers: Faster Staging, Fewer Errors
Increased line output means more ingredients to store, move, and manage. A well-organised, colour-coded container system helps prevent errors, reduce downtime, and maintain hygiene standards.
Klipspringer’s range of materials handling containers, available from 15 L to 140 L, are built for demanding food production environments. With same-day despatch, they provide a fast, reliable solution to help your site stay organised during busy production peaks.
Mobile Segregation: Control Allergens, Maintenance & Flow
During high-demand periods such as Christmas production, temporary segregation becomes critical – whether for new product runs, allergen control, engineering work, or hygiene management.
SegriScreens are a flexible and hygienic way to create temporary partitions. Available in two heights, five colours, and with custom printed messages, they can be quickly deployed to cordon off at-risk areas or form complete room dividers.
Multiple screens can be linked together to form a continuous waterproof barrier, then nested or wheeled away for compact storage when not in use.
Visual Management: Train Faster, Eliminate Mistakes
The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text, which makes visual communication essential – especially for new recruits, agency workers, or non-native English speakers. Whilst Visual Management isn’t a new concept, it is rapidly being embraced, helping sites to illustrate quality standards, signify CCPs, and reinforce other vital training points.
Although there are a multiple mounting methods available, Magnetic Mounting is one of the most popular. After all, it is a cost-effective solution for messages that need to be updated or moved at regular intervals. It also eliminates the need to drill holes in your factory walls, saving time, preventing damage, and resolving the issue of bacteria harbourage points.
Food-Safe Equipment Identification: Colour-Coded Hygiene & Production Equipment
During peak production, clear segregation between hygiene and production zones is vital. Colour-coded equipment provides an immediate visual system to prevent cross-contamination and support audit compliance. Assigning specific colours to areas or tasks ensures brushes, utensils, and containers stay in the correct zones, reducing confusion and saving time.
Durable etching or printed identifiers add lasting traceability. For practical guidance on setting up your system, see our detailed guide on simplifying your colour-coding policy . Together, these measures keep segregation clear, compliance effortless, and production running smoothly.
Hygienic Storage of Handheld Utensils: Stop Tool Loss
Factories will typically face an increased number of workers through the Christmas production season, making this a time when handheld equipment items are in especially high demand.
This can lead to missing tools and wasted time. It can also result in ‘alternative’ equipment being used to complete tasks, presenting a major risk to hygiene and foreign-body non-conformances.
To safeguard against this issue, many sites have turned to Shadow Board Storage Solutions to ensure handheld equipment items are always accounted for.
With bespoke board designs and a wide range of mounting options – including magnetic – fully customised shadow boards can be delivered on site in just 3-5 working days.
Shadow board Inspiration Guide
Want to learn more about shadow boards? From engineering tool boards and storage for your spill kits to PPE bases and change part stations, there are over 70 shadow board designs to explore in our Inspiration Guide.
Streamline Verification Tasks: Accurate, Audit-Ready Checks
Manually verifying your thermometers and probes using ice and boiling water is a time-heavy, laborious task, which is all the more painful when time is short.
While some sites resort to test caps or electronic simulation verifiers, most teams have identified that these methods do not check the accuracy of the thermometer probe, which is where most inaccuracies occur.
Thermometer verification can easily be streamlined using Klipspringer’s LazaPort family. Not only will this approach free up time for those verifying, it is also much more consistent and reliable than traditional methods (including traceability to UKAS).
For larger sites verifying probes daily, Klipspringer’s LazaPort8 is the perfect time-saving solution, giving your team peace of mind and helping your site to remain audit-ready.
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