Rockwell Automation Case Studies Hillshire Brands Improves Yield with Manufacturing Intelligence Strategy

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Hillshire Brands Improves Yield with Manufacturing Intelligence Strategy

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Process Manufacturing
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization
Challenge	Hillshire Brands's weight variance in one-pound sausage rolls was driving up product giveaway and lost revenue. Read More
About Customer	The Hillshire Brands Company is an American food company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company employs approximately 9,000 people. Read More
Customer Name	Hillshire Brands Read More
Solution	Hillshire Brands integrated architecture includes companywide standardized on the Logix control platform for scalable control, an EtherNet/IP network, FactoryTalk VantagePoint software and FactoryTalk Historian software. Software Components - Logix control platform - FactoryTalk VantagePoint software - FactoryTalk Historian software Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Accuracy, Cost Of Goods Sold, Production Efficiency, Weight Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems

Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Process Manufacturing

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Challenge

Hillshire Brands's weight variance in one-pound sausage rolls was driving up product giveaway and lost revenue.

About Customer

The Hillshire Brands Company is an American food company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company employs approximately 9,000 people.

Customer Name

Hillshire Brands

Solution

Hillshire Brands integrated architecture includes companywide standardized on the Logix control platform for scalable control, an EtherNet/IP network, FactoryTalk VantagePoint software and FactoryTalk Historian software. Software Components - Logix control platform - FactoryTalk VantagePoint software - FactoryTalk Historian software

Data Collected

Accuracy, Cost Of Goods Sold, Production Efficiency, Weight

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - Maintenance] Real-time status reports enable maintenance personnel to remotely diagnose the weight of each chub, each batch and each shipment.

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - Maintenance]
Real-time status reports enable maintenance personnel to remotely diagnose the weight of each chub, each batch and each shipment.

Benefit #1	Engineers are close to a yield improvement of 0.1% within six weeks of rolling out the new system.
Benefit #2	The solution can save 105,000 chubs per year and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost of goods sold.
Benefit #3	Hillshire Brands expects their new information solution to reduce giveaway another several tenths of a percent, increasing yield by up to 0.5%, or more than half a million pounds of sausage.

Benefit #1

Engineers are close to a yield improvement of 0.1% within six weeks of rolling out the new system.

Benefit #2

The solution can save 105,000 chubs per year and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost of goods sold.

Benefit #3

Hillshire Brands expects their new information solution to reduce giveaway another several tenths of a percent, increasing yield by up to 0.5%, or more than half a million pounds of sausage.

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Overview

Hillshire Brands Improves Yield with Manufacturing Intelligence Strategy

Operational Impact

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