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GainSeeker Suite: Corporate Standardization Pays Off

Technology Category
  • Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
  • Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries
  • Packaging
Applicable Functions
  • Process Manufacturing
  • Quality Assurance
Use Cases
  • Machine Condition Monitoring
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Process Control & Optimization
Services
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
  • System Integration
The Challenge
A packaging manufacturer with dozens of manufacturing plants across North America faced the challenge of standardizing performance and driving continuous improvement across all facilities. The company operates in a highly competitive market characterized by slow or negative growth and razor-thin margins. To remain profitable, corporate leaders needed to optimize performance and quality while minimizing waste and defects. Ensuring customer satisfaction was also critical, requiring immediate identification and resolution of problems and consistent product quality across all plants. Corporate leaders envisioned a real-time data system to standardize these functions and enable a common language throughout the organization. This system would empower staff at all levels with timely, actionable data to efficiently monitor plant and employee performance and drive continuous improvement.
About The Customer
Hertzler Systems has been providing seamless, accurate data acquisition solutions for over 30 years. Their customer base spans service, transactional, and manufacturing environments, including notable companies like Consolidated Biscuit Company, Darden Restaurants, Pactiv Inc., McCormick & Company, and Hormel Foods. Customers invest in Hertzler Systems' software and services because they offer a good return on investment. With Hertzler's assistance, clients can easily acquire data in any process, analyze it in real-time, and instantly notify process owners of process variations. These capabilities help clients reduce costs, cycle time, errors, and defects, while increasing profitability and customer satisfaction. These are the core competencies of Hertzler Systems.
The Solution
Hertzler Systems provided the GainSeeker Suite®, which was deployed across all the manufacturer's facilities. The system has been in daily use for more than 20 years. GainSeeker Suite® offers real-time data acquisition, analysis, and process monitoring capabilities. It enables plant managers and their direct reports to make better decisions, driving up performance, quality, and profitability. The language of the control chart and real-time data in GainSeeker permeates the company's culture at all levels. Leaders who do not embrace the tool are underperforming and are being replaced. The system empowers staff at all levels with timely, actionable data, allowing them to efficiently monitor plant and employee performance and drive continuous improvement.
Operational Impact
  • Plants using GainSeeker demonstrate notably higher performance levels than those that do not.
  • Most plant managers and their direct reports use GainSeeker daily to make better decisions.
  • The real-time data in GainSeeker helps drive up performance, quality, and profitability.

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