Food and beverage manufacturers collect enormous amounts of data every day, from quality checks on incoming ingredients to the fill accuracy and net weight on packaged goods. This data is typically collected for a single purpose, like traceability or audits, and often done so manually. But, unbeknownst to most manufacturers is the transformative potential of their quality data – the ability to provide strategic insight that can help uncover opportunities to make enterprise-wide improvements.
To realize their data’s full potential, manufacturers need to re-imagine quality and the long-held notion that data collection is only used for compliance and traceability purposes. If data collection is automated and the data is unified from across the enterprise, it creates visibility into the manufacturing performance of the entire organization, instead of just one plant or production line. When rolled up to the corporate level for strategic analysis, the data becomes actionable as operational insights that can drive global improvements, mitigate risks and save money.