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Article: Making time: Berner Foods gets a 20% boost in efficiency by installing a real-time management system.(management and planning )
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- Food Engineering
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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With entrepreneurial beginnings as a Swiss cheese maker dating back 60 years, Berner Foods now employs 200 workers and has sales of more than $75 million through a business that provides the US with a variety of processed cheeses and snack dips, manufactured at its state-of-the-art facilities in Dakota, IL.
Increased demand and plans for innovative new product launches meant Berner was faced with an increasingly complex SKU mix. The company, which has an ambitious five-year growth plan, wanted to improve throughput efficiencies and reduce performance variances, cut changeover times, unplanned downtime and minor stoppages, as well as reduce re-work and waste. ...