Patent ID: 6898482

Claim:
An integrated processing and information handling method for poultry items, the method comprising the steps of: receiving poultry items to be processed from an in-feed conveying means, assigning the poultry items to at least one processing station and transferring the assigned poultry items from the in-feed conveying means to said at least one assigned processing station, processing the poultry items into poultry segments by a processing operator assigned to the processing station and placing the poultry segments to at least one collecting bin provided at each of said at least one processing station and optionally obtaining at least a first information related to the poultry segments, transferring the poultry segments from the at least one bin to a take-away conveying means, whereby the position of each of the poultry segments on the take-away conveying means is not mixed with the positions of other poultry segments on the take-away conveying means, obtaining at least a second information comprising the weight and/or quality of the poultry segments and storing the information in a computer system, and utilizing the positions of the poultry segments on the take-away conveying means for tracing the poultry segments to the processing station or processing stations from which the poultry segments originate and associating said information to said processing station or processing stations, wherein by utilizing the tracing for associating said information to the processing station or processing stations the processing is monitored.