Case Study: Hillshire Brands achieves better FSMA compliance and cuts product waste with Rockwell Automation

Hillshire Brands Mobilize Information to Improve Compliance

Hillshire Brands, a global packaged meat and bakery producer, needed better visibility into production to reduce waste and meet new food safety compliance requirements at its Haltom City plant. With outdated refrigeration monitoring and limited real-time reporting, the team struggled with temperature deviations, changeover variability, and rising inedible product levels.

Rockwell Automation implemented a manufacturing intelligence solution using FactoryTalk VantagePoint, Historian, and FactoryTalk View Site Edition, along with Microsoft Surface tablets for mobile access. Rockwell Automation helped Hillshire Brands gain real-time production insight, improve traceability, and collaborate more effectively across the plant, cutting inedible product from 1.6% to 0.8% and saving nearly 5.5 million pounds of product annually.

Hillshire Brands

Harvey Williams

Manager