CDC Factory

Business Benefits in Food and Beverage Processing

Food & Beverage manufacturers are measuring significant productivity savings by unlocking the greatest asset within their factories – their people. Armed with real-time information on production operations and per-unit costs, factory floor teams are implementing immediate reviews, making real-time adjustments and measuring immediate performance improvements.

Beyond these incremental improvements, these manufacturers are sustaining productivity gains by using real-time intelligence to identify priorities for long-term improvement, including product innovation, improved service delivery, pinpointing priorities for capital investment strategies across multiple areas and sites, as well as setting new performance targets for their factory teams.

Making the shift to operating as a real-time factory is enabling process-intensive manufacturers to efficiently meet service and innovation demands at the pace their customers require.

Significant benefits include:

  • Abbyland Foods, Meats, 10% increase in efficiency
  • Berner Foods, Dairy, 20% increase in efficiency
  • Calypso Soft Drinks Ltd, 50% reduction in stock levels
  • H.J. Heinz Sauces, 5% increase in production capacity
  • Marsan Foods, Frozen Entrees, 43% reduction in changeover time
  • Monterey Gourmet Foods, 66 % reduction in changeovers
  • Uniq Prepared Foods, Fresh Salads, 15% increase in efficiency
  • Wise Foods, 28% reduction in inventory

The typical challenges we are helping our customers to face include:

  • Dynamic & accurate shop floor planning and scheduling
  • Consistent real-time factory performance management
  • Control of complex & dynamic SKU profiles
  • Capacity constraints
  • Inventory control
  • Conformance to food safety standards
  • Consistent yield performance
  • Consistent asset utilization and maintenance control
  • Consistent factory floor metrics such as yield, rate and cost per unit
  • Standardized factory floor workflow and practices
  • Efficient labor productivity
  • Continuous improvement frameworks