Operational Visibility for Food Manufacturers After Expansion Food manufacturers invest millions of dollars every year in new production equipment. Whether it’s a new processing line, an automated packaging system, a palletizer, or warehouse automation, the expectation is usually the same: “Once the new equipment is running, our operations will become more efficient.” Unfortunately, that isn’t
The KPIs Every Food Manufacturing Operations Team Should Be Tracking Last year, a mid-sized bakery in the Midwest discovered it was losing over $200,000 annually in unplanned downtime — not from equipment failures, but from scheduling gaps that nobody had been measuring. The fix wasn’t a new machine or a larger team. It was a
It has been a little over a month since the COVID-19 pandemic hit North America’s shores.
It’s not every day that you get to bring a superstar on board, but that’s just what Jim Wilson at Matrix Industrial Control Systems got to do recently when he welcomed industry icon Freddy Mortensen to the Matrix team. Few people in the meat processing industry are as well-known and respected as Freddy, and with knowledge and experience that few can match, Matrix’s consulting services offering just significantly increased in both range and depth.
