Hillshire Brands Uses Manufacturing Intelligence

The Jimmy Dean brand, part of the Hillshire Brands portfolio, was force to address weight variance in one-pound sausage rolls that was driving up product giveaway and lost revenue. Their solutions included companywide standardization on the Logix control platform for scalable control, improving manufacturing intelligence with FactoryTalk VantagePoint and FactoryTalk Historian software, and addressing system design, configuration, and implementation using Grantek Systems Integration, a Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork™ program Solution Partner. This report shows the result of implementing these solutions to reduce waste and improve systems.