Case Study: Iams achieves precise fill-weight targeting and cost savings with Northwest Analytics' NWA Quality Analyst

Iams Premium Pet Food Targets Package Fill Weights with NWA Quality Analyst Software

Iams, the premium pet food leader, needed tighter control of package fill weights at its Aurora, Nebraska plant to avoid costly overfilling while preventing regulatory underfills. To replace spreadsheets and give operators actionable SPC data, Iams implemented Northwest Analytics' NWA Quality Analyst.

Northwest Analytics' NWA Quality Analyst delivers shift-by-shift SPC profiles (averages, counts outside control limits, I/R charts and histograms) so operators can run to targets with minimal variation. The solution let Iams substantially narrow fill-weight targets, improve capability analysis (Cpk), reduce overfill costs while remaining fully compliant, and expand into advanced analyses (t‑tests, regression) as its quality program matures.

Iams

Dave Bechtel

Director of Worldwide Quality