Real-time analytics delivers savings of $3.4 million. Outdated, Cumbersome Quality Systems Fail to Deliver Insights Thomas, the corporate quality manager at a major, multi-plant foods company, was looking for better way to get real time insights into data. While some...
Situation Quality manager for a consumer goods packaging company. Federal regulation strictly requires long-term stability of the consumer product, which hinges on maintaining accurate product formulation. Documentation of the process data is vital to meeting federal...
Situation The Plant Manager for a chip manufacturing company is responsible for cost management, efficiency, and overall profitability. Critical Issue Chips aren’t cheap and neither are the film bags they come in. Although every chip that gets overfilled in the bag...
Situation The Senior Business Analyst and the Manager of Corporate Continuous Quality Improvement for a major North American food processor with dozens of plants in several states. Critical issue Product weight control was implemented across this corporation with a...
Does implementing a state-of-the-art Statistical Process Control (SPC) system make financial sense? A leading producer of high-quality food products has used SPC to monitor package weights for more than 25 years. With such a long track record, you might think that...
Situation Director of Quality Assurance for the largest privately owned bakery in the United States, specializing in producing low-run product for major brands. Critical issue As the private label producer of baked goods for major brands, the company’s...
