Case Study: Hilcona achieves faster product development and more transparent costing with SpecPage SpecPDM

PDM enables Hilcona to introduce new innovative products into the market faster and at lower cost

Hilcona AG, a Liechtenstein-based producer of fresh and frozen convenience foods, faced significant challenges with its outdated product development system. Entire recipes were vanishing, sub-modules were failing, and the platform could not support the complex costing, quality assurance, and flexibility required by the market. This critical failure prompted the search for a new solution, leading them to vendor SpecPage and its SpecPDM product development platform.

By implementing SpecPage's SpecPDM solution, Hilcona centralized its recipe data, gaining enhanced security and the ability to quickly develop new product variants. The software provided critical functions like integrated cost calculations, automated creation of specifications and declarations, and management of complex customs recipes for import/export. This resulted in shorter development times for innovative products and created major efficiencies, saving significant manpower resources that Hilcona could reallocate to other divisions.

Hilcona

Markus Weiskopf

Communications Consultant