Ray C. Anderson has the passion of an environmentalist and the discipline of Six Sigma Black Belt.
Back in August I gave a sneak preview of a new case study that I was working on. Yesterday I finally completed it and published it on our website. You can read the entire study and download a copy to share with colleagues.
Hertzler customer realizes 171% ROI in seven months following deployment of GainSeeker® Suite into repair and customer returns areas of business. The new application enabled the company to significantly improve throughput and first pass yield. Goshen, IN, October 7, 2009 – Hertzler Systems Inc., provider of SPC Software, KPI software, and Operational Intelligence software, [...]
Resource links for people in the foods Industry.
"No Bad Parts" says that "Best" and "Fair" are the same. They're not. A far better definition of good quality is "on target with no variation." (The author channels 27-year-old wisdom from Dr. W. Edwards Deming.)
How best-in-class food processing companies drive profits, increase efficiency, and reduce risk.
Hertzler Systems will host a one hour web seminar for business leaders in the Foods Industry on October 6, 2009. This information-packed seminar will share stories and insights from the company's more than 25 years of experience of helping food processors and food packagers use knowledge to increase profits and efficiency, and improve regulatory [...]
I don't think we have any customers who are "over-trained." People will always be able to get more value out of a tool that they really know and understand. Knowing more about the tool can translate directly into higher individual worker productivity and effectiveness.
Many organizations look for a two-year payback. A GainSeeker customer achieved his in an eighth of that time. Now, seven months into the project, he had documented an ROI of 171%.
If we set aside the (very important) questions about the reliability and repeatability of data for just a minute, the question that comes to the forefront is "what theory shall we apply to the data that characterizes this business process?" Or, in the words of Dr. Deming, "By what method?" shall we reach our goals?
