Berner Foods, a supplier of food products such as natural cheese, specialty performance cheese, processed cheese and soy beverages, won a Ventana Research 2007 Performance Management Leadership Award in the Technology Leadership Award – Operational Intelligence category.
We are delighted with this recognition for our client Berner Foods, who has demonstrated how CDC Factory can be used to deliver real and tangible benefits to a food manufacturer and make a direct and immediate impact to the bottom line, said Eric Musser, president and CEO of CDC Software.
Berner Foods deployed CDC Factory as it wanted to improve throughput efficiencies and reduce performance variances – cutting changeover times, unplanned downtime and minor stoppages, as well as reducing re-work and waste. The company fully implemented CDC Factory in less than 10 weeks and immediately identified the potential for a 20% improvement, or the equivalent of four million jars of its products.
The CDC Factory applications helped us immediately identify bottlenecks within some of our processes, said Gary Gold, vice president of Berner Foods. Thus, we were able to analyze the data in CDC Factory and put fixes in place. We got an immediate return of potential capacity of 50% and increased OEE by 40%.
With CDC Factory, it allowed the operators to make real time process adjustments in a pro-active rather than re-active state, he continued. Using CDC Factory, we are able to inform our sales department of capacity potential by product in order to take on new customers, adding millions of dollars to our revenues.
