Case Study: Leading Producer of High-Quality Food Products Company achieves $150,000+ annual savings and real-time SPC with Hertzler Systems Inc (GainSeeker Suite)

State-of-the-art SPC System Drives Financial Results

Leading Producer of High-Quality Food Products Company faced delayed, error-prone weight control from a largely paper-based SPC process and strict clean-room hardware constraints that prevented traditional shop-floor computers. They needed a centrally managed, PDA-capable SPC solution that would integrate with ERP to provide timely giveaway metrics. Hertzler Systems Inc’s GainSeeker Suite matched these requirements and was selected to replace the legacy system.

Hertzler Systems Inc implemented GainSeeker Suite on handheld PDAs with real-time control charts, custom alarms, email alerts, and centralized Citrix deployment, plus intuitive “desktop” reports for managers. The solution enabled rapid plant rollouts (new plants up and running within a week), cut monthly reporting from a day to 15 minutes, and delivered measurable savings — $225,000 at one plant in nine months and about $3.4 million across implemented plants in the first half — with continued projected benefits.