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European Snack Manufacturer Intersnack to Extend use of CDC Software’s CDC Factory Solution to a Further 10 Manufacturing Plants
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July 19, 2010 – CDC Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CDCS), a hybrid enterprise software provider of on-premise and cloud deployments, announced today that Intersnack, a leading European snack manufacturer, best known in the UK market for the Pom-Bear, Penn State Pretzel and Mr Mash brands, plans to extend the use of its manufacturing operations management and enterprise manufacturing intelligence solution, CDC Factory, to an additional 10 plants across Europe. The decision follows significant operational enhancements and cost savings following the integration of CDC Factory in two Netherlands plants last year.
The multi-plant implementation of CDC Factory is part of Intersnack’s ongoing plan for operational excellence. The initial CDC Factory implementations at the Doetinchem and Hardinxveld plants in the Netherlands took only six weeks each, with no impact on the day-to-day business or production. Both were delivered on time and within budget. According to Intersnack, CDC Factory already has delivered significant Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) rates and the two plants have been able to eliminate all paperwork associated with in-line Quality Control processes. This has dramatically reduced administration costs on the shop floor and reduced waste.
Following these initial improvements, Intersnack plans to deploy CDC Factory across its multi-plant network to help ensure standard OEE and Quality across its business. During the next 12 months CDC Factory is expected to be installed in Intersnack’s remaining Dutch plants as well as production facilities in Germany, Hungary and France.
As part of these implementations, CDC Software will use CDC Factory’s Project Execution Template (PET) model to help ensure consistency and scalability of best practices and continuous improvement initiatives across the plants’ diverse product portfolio and workplace cultures.
“We are delighted that the initial implementations of CDC Factory were delivered as CDC Software promised in terms of workplace behaviour change and improved operational and financial metrics,” said Johan Van Winkel, managing director of Intersnack Group. “We have witnessed significant OEE improvement and the workforce has embraced ownership of their own performance. The successful performance of these initial implementations has encouraged us to replicate this across our plant network as soon as possible so that we have a standard OEE platform on which to base our decisions for our ongoing Operational Excellence programs.”
“CDC Software is excited that Intersnack, a leading European food manufacturer plans to implement CDC Factory across its European plant network following the resounding successes at its initial two plants,” said Mark Sutcliffe, president of the CDC Factory product line of CDC Software.
"As a true out-of-the-box manufacturing operations management system, CDC Factory has proven repeatedly that it can deliver improved results in weeks rather than years. Intersnack now has a proven suite of workforce manufacturing intelligence tools that can be rolled out to other plants following a standardised set-up. As we have seen with our other customers, CDC Factory can deliver compelling improvements for manufacturers in terms of higher productivity, reduced operating costs and waste, and ultimately, higher operating profits,” concluded Mark Sutcliffe.
CDC Factory is a packaged manufacturing operations management system that transforms manufacturing performance by empowering people to make real-time actionable decisions. It combines shop floor data capture, paperless quality management, packaged metrics like OEE, manufacturing analytics and executive scorecards. Pre-built continuous improvement capabilities combined with an implementation model focused on business transformation means that, in many cases, organisations can be live within six weeks and delivering improvement results rapidly from project commencement.
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