Spee Dee Case Study No. 3: Improved Product Quality And Consistency
01. Jun, 2010
- Company: Fortune 500 Food Processor
- Objective: Develop an in-house packaging system to address product quality issues while maintaining a required fill rate of 50/minute.
- Situation: The company produces a side dish product which is comprised of a particulate ingredient and a sauce mix. In this process, one product was placed on top of the other and the sauce mix was never properly blended with the particulate, resulting in chunks. Due to numerous failed attempts to resolve this problem, the client doubted that a successful solution would be found.
- Solution: Spee-Dee® mounted two augers on a vertical form/fill/seal machine, one straight and one canted at 30 degrees, both going into a common collector funnel. This resulted in a better blending of the product before it went into the pouch.
- Bottom line: Not only were product quality and consistency improved, pouches were ultimately packaged at an average fill rate of 70/minute, 140% of what was originally mandated by the client.
