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Dairy Processor Eliminates Manual Coding Errors With Hitachi Coding Software Suite (HCSS)

Coding automation helps boost ROI within a year

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Summary

With annual revenues exceeding $1.5 billion, this nearly 100-year-old dairy business faced the challenge of efficiently coding and labeling almost a dozen different dairy products daily. With work orders changing up to 15 times a day, manual inputs for bulk processing led to frequent errors. To address this, they implemented Hitachi Coding Software Solution (HCSS), a printer communication and coding automation solution that significantly reduced coding errors and enhanced plant productivity and efficiency.

Challenges Business Challenges
  • Accurately coding and labeling 10 products daily, with work orders changing up to 15 times per day.
  • Enhancing operations with a best-in-industry centralized messaging interface and access to printer dashboards.
  • Eliminating the requirement for manual input into inkjet printers to reduce errors and associated costs.
  • Implementing a software solution that assists in printing operations on large-scale production lines.
Solutions Solutions
  • Hitachi Coding Software Suite (HCSS),a printer communication software compatible with various device types and multiple data sources.
  • Printer automation for smart coding and marking on high-speed production lines.
Outcome Outcome
  • Enabled line operators with the best-in-industry, modern and intuitive messaging interface.
  • Streamlined bulk processing by integrating with existing systems such as ERP, MES, PLM, and other third-party platforms.
  • Reduced rates of inaccurate coding and marking, achieving ROI within one year of implementation.
  • Substantial increase in productivity and efficiency across large-scale production lines in multiple factories.
  • Faster response times to frequent changes in work orders and improved adaptability to evolving business needs.
  • Minimized costs that were occurring due to errors in product labeling.
"We can now initialize our printers and add in SKU data through our network. The time it took to manually enter data is now being used more productively and the process for coding our products has been simplified. Having products that are wrongly coded has been greatly reduced, which gives us confidence that every item leaving the factory is marked correctly. And that has, in turn, impacted our bottom line."
- A Large Dairy Processor

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