Ten Tips For Building A Real-Time Weight Control System

By Hertzler Systems Inc.

Does this sound familiar?

"Our customers won't let us touch our prices. but our material costs are going through the roof. We're getting sqeezed!"
If you're reading this white paper no one needs to tell you why building a real-time weight control system is important. You already know that over pack or giveaway can be a huge drain on your company's profits. You also know that it has been getting worse and worse because of pressures on both sides of the balance sheet. And you know that giving the operator realtime feedback about overpack is critical if ever hope to get overpack under control — much less if you want to reduce it.

You probably also know (maybe unconsciously) that building a solid real-time system has other benefits. Here are a few key benefits:

• Operator involvement and confidence soars when they have immediate feedback on their work.
• Trust in data — and indeed the quality of the data itself goes up when processes for obtaining and calculating critical performance indicators are "mistakeproofed".
• Administrative costs go down when leaders pay attention to integration of disparate systems.

This white paper describes the key components of a real-time weight control system.