Thursday, May 8, 2008

Plastics Business:

Real-time Data Drives a Hole-in-one

The current issue of Plastics Business magazine examines Hertzler customer Acushnet Company in this feature story. Acushnet is the maker of the number one ball in golf: Titleist. According to Ken Welchman, Director of Corporate Quality, “When you are The #1 Ball In Golf, everyone is gunning for you. In order to maintain our competitive advantage, we need to improve our products and services every day. The quality of our products is judged every day by the best golfers in the world.”

Industry 2.0:

Accurate Data Collection

Columnist Tom Cutler looks at why it is important to have accurate data available to conduct focused and more effective Six Sigma programs.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Quality Digest (InsideSixSigma):

Six Sigma Busy Work - Data trump all

“The Six Sigma community puts up with an amazing amount of busy work in order to become data-driven,” says Hertzler Systems President, Evan Miller. This story describes the effort that manufacturing firms will go to to capture and distill rich streams of data.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Automation.com:

OPC Drives Overall Equipment Efficiency

Automation Weekly and Automation.com features Hertzler Systems in this article on GainSeeker Suite's introduction of OPC. The article includes a quote from Byron Shetler, Hertzler's Chief Technology Officer: “Supporting OPC creates great new opportunities for collecting data from production equipment in real time, performing statistical analysis on the data and then feeding information back to operators, engineers or to the equipment itself.”

Monday, May 5, 2008

AutomationMedia.com:

Improving OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) from 65% to 75%

“In a data driven society, automated data collection is a must,” says John Foley, in this article published today in Automation Media. “The quicker we get information in hand, the better-off we are.”

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Quality Digest:

Bored by Lean

According to an article in the current issue of Quality Digest, apathy is a cancer that affects lean continue process improvement efforts. Hertzler Systems' President Evan Miller is quoted extensively in this feature story.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Metalworking Canada:
Hertzler Systems featured in Business Survival Strategies column

Metalworking Production & Purchasing magazine column Business Survival Strategies features Hertzler's GainSeeker Suite in a column titled "Eliminating data massaging, scrubbing, and manipulating."

Thursday, April 17, 2008

AmericanFront.com:
Transactional Six Sigma Process by Hertzler Systems Profiled

Feature story explains that reducing the costs and cycle times of Six Sigma projects must be achieved by capturing the right data to drive business transformation.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Thursday, March 20, 2008

i-NewsWire.com:
Hertzler Systems Promotes Low Cost, High Value Data

Story outlines three ways businesses fall short of being truly data driven.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

PRCompass.com:
Hertzler Systems Offers Cost of Quality Benchmark Report

Hertzler Systems announces that it has obtained distribution rights for the Aberdeen Group’s “The Cost of Quality – Benchmarking Enterprise Quality Management” report. The report showcases the operational performance benefits manufacturers are enjoy due to the adoption of enterprise quality management.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

PressPox.Co.UK:
Hertzler Systems Promotes Data Driven Organizations

Feature story outlines critical issues when business executives are confronted with "Too much data and not enough information."

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Automation.com:
Automation Professionals Seek Missing Link for Transactional Six Sigma

Hertzler's Evan Miller is featured in an article in Automation.com discussing the key issue of sustaining the gains in transactional Six Sigma projects.

AutomationMedia.com:
Transactional Six Sigma Must Maintain Productivity Gains

Feature story in Automation Media describes how Six Sigma projects are often hampered by the high cost of acquiring and managing data.

Monday, March 3, 2008

AmericanFront.com:
Missing Link for Transactional Six Sigma Developed

Feature story describes how GainSeeker Suite forms a critical link between manufacturers’ business system and other Six Sigma tools.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

TCMnet.com:
Root Cause Analysis Possible Through Hertzler Systems

TMCNet features GainSeeker Suite's root cause analysis capabilities for drilling to the root cause of process variation.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Accounting Software 411:
Food CFO's Face Over-Packing vs. Under-Filling

GainSeeker Suite is featured in an article at Accounting Software 411, the leading source of news and information for the accounting software industry.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

International Food Safety & Quality Network:
Quality Managers and Statistical Process Control

Hertzler Systems' President Evan Miller is quoted extensively in feature article in International Food Safety & Quality Network. The article, titled "Quality Managers and Statistical Process Control" describes how SPC tools prevent Over-Packing, Under-Filling and help Quality Managers meet Regulatory Compliance, ISO 22000 and HACCP Requirements.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Food Engineering:
SPC Software Pays For Itself In One Year

Food Engineering Magazine features the rapid return on investment of the GainSeeker Suite software deployment at Consolidated Biscuit. The article quotes Deb Keeler, Quality Manager:

“We really don’t know what we did without it. Operators are paying more attention to their weights, and we [management] have better visibility of what’s happening.”

Saturday, May 3, 2003

Quality Magazine:
Multiplexer Adds SPC Flexibility

Spectrum Brands achieves efficient process control because of ability to rapidly access data from a large number of sources in the production environment, and with optimum accuracy.

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

Quality Digest:
SPC Collection Software Saves Time and Reduces Waste

When HyTech Spring wanted software to help them collect, manage, analyze and report information, and be compatible with its existing ERP system, they turned to Hertzler Systems’ GainSeeker Suite.