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Receiving Shipments
How to Receive a Shipment
The first step in using the Strella system is to enter orders into the application. Currently, only one Country of Origin can be listed per PO in the...
How to Enter a Receiving QC
The ripening model makes recommendations based on receiving QC data. Complete this step after receiving your shipment . At least 1 receiving QC ent...
How to Assign an Order to a Room
After receiving a shipment and entering a receiving QC , you are ready to assign that shipment to a room. Select a room, zone, and type in order f...
Ripening Cycles
How to Start a Ripening Cycle
Selecting a Target Date and Stage Goal initiates the cycle. POs are assigned to the appropriate zones in the room. Receiving QC has been entered f...
How to Enter Daily QCs
This article covers how to complete a daily QC using image-based QC. You will be prompted to open the camera or select from your camera roll. If you h...
Gassing with Automated Ripening
Strella provides visibility into room-level ethylene levels on an hourly basis. Here is how to turn on autogas, track ethylene levels, and adjust aut...
Banana Photos
Images are one of the many inputs that Strella uses to evaluate banana stage progression during ripening. Images alone are not a reliable indicator of...
Managing Inventory
How to Manage Multiple Ship Dates and Stage Goals
The Ripen App is optimized for a single Target Date and a single Stage Goal per room zone. However, multiple shipments and color stages may be expecte...
How to Move Bananas to Another Room
Changes is inventory might require you to move pallets from one room to another room. The move function allows you to make those changes in the app ea...
How to Ship Fruit in the Ripen App
Enter shipments after the final case counts and average color stage at shipment are finalized. Some facilities enter this information on the next day ...
How to Take a Shipout Photo 
To standardize color stages and reporting at shipout, Strella recommends the following procedure for staging and photographing bananas.  Position case...
How to Cancel a Cycle
If you accidentally loaded the wrong room, you can easy to cancel the cycle without deleting your purchase order by following these steps. Reach out t...
Rooms and Hardware
Room Settings for Strella Automation
When using Strella app, program your ripening rooms using these settings. Holding Temperature: 58 Regular venting: 30 min every 3 hours Post-gas v...
Installing a Strella Sensor in a Ripening Room
Strella sensors are brick-sized devices that can measure temperature, humidity, CO2, O2, and ethylene in ripening rooms. The device activation tab is ...
Installing a Strella Temperature Probe
Strella temperature probes are small, portable temp devices that can be using in ripening rooms and connected to the Strella platform as another data ...
Activating a Strella Temp Probe Sensor
If a sensor has been unused and dormant, it needs to be "activated", or turned on, prior to installation in a ripening room. To do this, press and hol...
Ripening Resources
Strella Color Stages
The Strella Color Stages align closely with the Chiquita Color Scale. Both charts are attached as pdfs.
Understanding Qualitative QC Values
As a part of a QC check, you may be asked to answer questions about pulp to peel separation, peel color, interior color, latex, and/or grade. Here is ...
How to Take a Pressure Reading
The full user manual for the penetrometer is attached at the end of this article.
Banana Defects
Typically on the shoulder of the banana, where the hands would come in contact with each other or the box. Typically on the backs of the fingers where...