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Purina Golden Products delivers full value with help from WinSPC


Background

Nestle Purina® [NYSE: RAL] is North America’s largest pet food and supplies producer with annual revenues of more than $2.7B. Purina’s Golden Products division produces cat and dog litter under the Tidy Cat and Secondnature brands. The five-plant Golden Products division has achieved significant benefits using
WinSPC.

“The amount the company saved with WinSPC by controlling amounts as small as a teaspoon raised some eyebrows. Profit margins can be measured in very small amounts in a large scale manufacturing setting.”

Steve Huey
Process Manager
Ralston Golden Products Div.


Challenge

Purina’s Golden Products division continuously strives to provide its customers with optimum value as well as company stakeholders with maximum return. A major key to succeeding in this challenge is precise control over individual package volumes. Foremost is to ensure packages are consistently filled to specification. But even a slight amount of overfilling individual packages can add up quickly to negatively affect the bottom line when dealing in millions of packages produced in multiple plants annually.

Implementation

In 1998 the Golden Products division moved to refine its volume control even more in the packaging process by implementing real-time control through WinSPC. Golden Products chose WinSPC for the following reasons:

  • WinSPC provides automatic data collection and analysis
  • WinSPC provides real-time closed-loop feed back
  • WinSPC is technically advanced and scalable to meet current and future IT department requirements
  • WinSPC has an easy-to-use interface

Results

Through WinSPC’s automatic data collection, real-time alnalysis and capability studies, Golden Products was able to achieve a substantial cost savings by being able to more precisely control package volume.

Benefits

Purina’s Golden Products division is maintaining high quality standards and profitability. Golden Products specifically cited the following benefits achieved with WinSPC:
  • Established precise package content volume control
  • Easily implemented WinSPC at two new plants

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