Case Study: Carolina Ingredients achieves safer, more efficient operations with Verkada

How the COO of a Leading Food Manufacturer Uses Verkada to Optimize Business Operations

Carolina Ingredients, a leading industrial seasoning manufacturer, needed to replace an antiquated camera system that provided minimal coverage across its 23,000 sq ft facility and 1,200 pallet spaces. Chief Operating Officer and Plant Manager Frank McKinney selected Verkada and began deploying hybrid cloud cameras, then expanded to Verkada access control and environmental sensors to support physical security, operations and regulatory needs.

Verkada’s cloud-based platform centralized video, access and sensor data, enabling playback, intelligent search, heat maps and motion plots that uncovered production and material-flow inefficiencies—Frank identified over 400 individual processes needing support. The Verkada solution also tied access control to video for verified restricted-area entry, gave HR “Person of Interest” alerts, and provided environmental sensors that detect particulate spikes (important given $200,000 in HVAC replacements over three years), allowing faster response to protect product quality and improve space utilization and maintenance planning.

Carolina Ingredients

Frank McKinney

Chief Operating Officer and Plant Manager