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Masters Gallery Foods Inc. seeks improvement with CDC Factory

ATLANTA, April 2, 2007—Cheese packager Masters Gallery Foods, Inc. has selected CDC Factory (CDC Software) to support a drive for efficiency improvement at its production facility in Plymouth, WI.

Masters Gallery Foods packages a comprehensive range of quality cheese products for the retail and foodservice sectors, including bar, chunk, prints and shred formats. The company had set an objective to unlock additional production volume in order to improve the overall efficiency of the business. The challenge was to identify where efficiency improvements could be made, particularly when existing methods of collecting and analyzing production information could not provide the required detail.

Mark Grasse, Director Of Manufacturing Operations says, "To be fully effective, we need information that shows us the financial impact of downtime, change-overs and waste as well as variations in yield, quality and efficiency. We had some of that data previously, but after the fact and not in a usable format."

Mr Grasse saw a trade magazine article on the implementation of CDC Software at another food manufacturing operation, describing how CDC Software supports efficiency improvement strategies by delivering a combination of plant automation data and lost-time information to a real-time factory dashboard, available at all levels of the organization.

"My first thought on seeing CDC Software? That it was too good to be true," he recalls "so we evaluated it fully against our other options. CDC Software won out because it's simple, user-friendly, supports our continuous improvement strategy and has a clear, achievable ROI."

It is anticipated that the CDC Software installation will deliver a very significant contribution to Masters Gallery's Foods declared requirement. The initial project scope is expected to deliver an increase in Overall Equipment Effectiveness across all its production lines, which in turn will translate into additional production and direct bottom-line benefit.