Case Study: Leading North American Food Processors Company achieves 20x ROI and sub-9-month payback with Hertzler Systems Inc's GainSeeker Suite

State-of-the-art SPC System drives financial results

Leading North American Food Processors Company, a multi-plant food processor, struggled with inconsistent product weight control across sites, paper-based collection, and little ability to share or act on data. Hertzler Systems Inc deployed its GainSeeker Suite SPC solution (delivered via Citrix) to enable real-time weight data capture on inexpensive wireless PDAs and full PCs, aiming to eliminate paper, reduce delays and errors, and integrate with the company’s ERP.

Hertzler Systems Inc implemented a centralized GainSeeker deployment with PDA/PC entry, automated email alarms, charts and drill-downs so operators and managers could take immediate corrective action; new plants were added rapidly via the corporate server. Financially, one plant paid for the entire corporate investment in under nine months through material savings, and the corporation recouped its total investment by more than 20× within six months, while eliminating paper, reducing errors and enabling enterprise-wide data sharing.