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Golden State Foods Drives Manufacturing Productivity Boost with New Automated Performance Management System
Posted by admin in News Room Thursday, 24 June 2010 04:49 2 Comments
Golden State Foods Improves Operational Efficiency with Plantnode® Enterprise Deployment.
Mississauga, Ontario, June 24, 2010 – Food manufacturer and distributor Golden State Foods (GSF) has selected and implemented Shoplogix Plantnode® Enterprise manufacturing software to increase performance transparency and improve production efficiency across the company’s manufacturing operations.
GSF recognized that in order to get true production visibility they had to implement an automated real-time data collection and analysis solution. “We knew that real-time data would help us improve performance,” says Mike Milligan, Vice President of Operations. “For example, with manual data, we could never see ‘starved’ conditions where the machines were waiting for product. We could not really tell if this was an issue. Only major events are recorded in a manual system but the reality is there are all kinds of short intervals that are never captured.”
When deciding on a real-time performance management solution, GSF narrowed down the field to Shoplogix and one other provider for a “bake-off” to evaluate each vendor’s solution on two machines for 30 days at the Conyers, GA plant. Shoplogix beat out the competition to win GSF’s business. “Shoplogix was easier to install and configure; it was only a few wires,” says Milligan. “We had truthful information immediately, saw performance improvements right away and Shoplogix support was superior.”
With Plantnode® installed on two of 28 machines, GSF experienced a 20 percent productivity improvement within a three-month period. After implementation, the company had its longest continuous run of 2 hours and 31 minutes, which occurred over a shift change, and maintained 98.6 percent of target run speed during a three-day multi-shift continuous period. The average run speed of 54 cases an hour also increased to 64 cases per hour. “We set production records during the trial,” says Milligan. “We knew that real-time data would help us improve performance but we were shocked by how well performance improved just by measuring it and making people aware.”
With the successful implementation in Conyers, GA, Golden State Foods is planning to roll out Plantnode® Enterprise across their operations.
ABOUT GOLDEN STATE FOODS
Golden State Foods (http://www.goldenstatefoods.com) is one of the largest diversified suppliers to the foodservice industry, servicing more than 20,000 restaurants from three continents. With approximately 3,000 employees worldwide, GSF’s core businesses include: processing and distribution of liquid products, meat products, produce,bakery and other services, providing a variety of networked solutions for the total supply chain spectrum.
ABOUT SHOPLOGIX
ShoplogixTM (http://shoplogix.com) is the proven world leader in the rapid time to value delivery of performance management solutions that produce breakthrough profitability for manufacturers. The Shoplogix Plantnode® Performance Suite delivers sustainable results through role-based intelligence, linking operational effectiveness to strategic decision-making. Shoplogix solutions form the foundation for continuous improvement by providing manufacturers with the tools to remove operational inefficiencies, drive growth and increase profitability.
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Shoplogix Brings the Manufacturing Shop Floor to the Executive Suite with Plantnode Enterprise
Posted by admin in News Room Tuesday, 9 February 2010 04:47 No Comments
Accurate Role-Based Intelligence Drives Immediate and Sustainable Benefits
Mississauga, ON – February 9, 2010 – Marketwire
Shoplogix is pleased to announce Plantnode Enterprise, an intuitive real-time performance management solution that delivers operational and financial benefits to manufacturers in just days. Plantnode Enterprise provides support for corporations wanting to establish company-wide standards for measuring manufacturing productivity. This new platform brings actionable operational intelligence to the broader regional, divisional and corporate audiences.
Plantnode Enterprise collects real-time data across multiple lines, plants and geographies, enabling standardization and comparison of efficiencies from job to job, plant to plant or employee to employee. Data can be rolled up or drilled down by machine type, individual plant or geographical region, or it can be viewed corporate-wide.
“Now management teams can look at their performance based on uniform, truthful data so they can compare apples to apples and make more informed business decisions,” says Martin Ambrose, president and CEO, Shoplogix. “Plantnode Enterprise also gives managers an opportunity to identify improvements and best practices in one plant that can then be implemented across an organization.”
Global packaging leader, Greif, is deploying the technology company-wide in 90 plants across 30 countries. “Our current method of driving improvement didn’t provide visibility into all losses of efficiency, but Plantnode Enterprise provides an unbiased way to measure effectiveness and capacity planning across our network of plants.” “says Travis Groff, vice president of OpEx Worldwide, Greif. “We want to take our operational efficiency to the next level. Using Shoplogix we have already seen improvement in our initial plants where OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) has increased by 10-15 percent and downtime has been reduced by 8-12 percent.”
Plantnode Enterprise provides several powerful new features, including customizable Executive Dashboards and hundreds of role-based reports that can be set up and shared with colleagues through the “Favourites Sharing” functionality. Reports can be automatically pushed to Blackberry or iPhone devices providing easy access to important information for busy executives. Plantnode Enterprise delivers rapid time to value, yielding intelligence to improve operations within weeks and enabling ROI (return on investment) within three to six months. “In these difficult economic times, accurate information can help manufacturers make the right decisions,” says Ambrose. “We’re dedicated to helping our customers stay competitive.”
ABOUT SHOPLOGIX
Shoplogix is the proven world leader in rapid time to value performance management solutions to produce breakthrough profitability. The Shoplogix Plantnode Performance Suite delivers sustainable results through role-based intelligence and links operational effectiveness to strategic decision-making to competitive advantage. Shoplogix solutions form the foundation for continuous improvement by providing manufacturers with the tools to remove operational inefficiencies, drive growth and increase profitability. For more information, visit http://www.shoplogix.com/.