Miracle Stories

Factory Miracles

Welcome to Factory Miracles — the digital magazine from QAD Redzone that honors the frontline connected workers in the QAD Redzone Community! This magazine features stories of achievements and accomplishments from across the Community and around the world.

August Edition 2024

Continuum Packing Solutions Packs Up a Winning Strategy for Productivity

Our feature story this edition comes from Continuum Packing Solutions, who have not only improved productivity by 23%, but also boosted OEE by 11%, and are creating a culture of continuous improvement that fuels business growth and employee and customer satisfaction!

March Edition 2024

Women in Manufacturing Special Edition

In conjunction with International Women’s Day, March 8th, we wanted to bring you a special edition of Factory Miracles highlighting just some of the remarkable women we come across daily in our manufacturing lives. This special ‘Women in Manufacturing’ edition celebrates the vital role women play in our industry and the invaluable contributions they make.

October Edition 2023

2023 Community Awards Edition

2023 ‘Plant of the Year’ winners Taffy Town deployed Redzone back in October 2021, unwilling to miss out on growing business demand. As a result, they not only reduced excessive lead times and reduced overtime to 0%, they improved employee retention resulting in being able to offer a four-day work week.

April Edition 2023

AquaCal and Coil Specialist: When Demand Increased QAD Redzone Went Up the Supply Chain

This issue shows how QAD Redzone helped both vendor and supplier keep up with an increase in demand. When AquaCal, a manufacturer of pool heat pumps, had a huge increase in demand during the pandemic, their suppliers Coil Specialist, a manufacturer of fin coils, too felt the pressure to keep up with demand and asked AquaCal just how they were producing so much more? The answer that came back was QAD Redzone…

December Edition 2022

2022 Community Awards Edition

In the last 12 months, Plant of the Year 2022 winner, Vytalogy Wellness has seen outstanding success using Redzone’s connected workforce solution by fully transforming its productivity levels to help reduce the overall pressures of economic downturns. In less than 16 months, Vytalogy Wellness rolled out all four of Redzone’s modules: Productivity, Compliance, Reliability, and Learning. By simply adopting these modules, Vytalogy has seen great success on the frontline, especially when it comes to company culture.

June Edition 2022

Dot’s Pretzels: The Transformation of a Family Owned Business

Dot’s Pretzels’ seasoning blend may be top secret, but when you step into any of their four facilities, shop floor employees aren’t keeping their Redzone productivity successes a secret. Behind each pretzel twist – whether it’s the honey mustard seasoned, southwest seasoned, or their original flavor – Dot’s has a wonderfully committed team who have recently transformed from a family-owned business into a Hershey-owned company.

December Edition 2021

2021 Community Awards Edition

The motto of lean manufacturing plus safe, efficient production is the name of the game for ‘Plant of the Year’ winners, Honeyville. Ogden and Rancho Cucamonga plants have worked together since their 2018 implementations and through all the Redzone modules to secure some massive improvements on all fronts. UPH performance at Ogden is up 230% to 3351 units and Rancho Cucamonga is up 108% to 1180. Ogden proudly has a 71% downtime reduction, with the Rancho facility touting a 50% reduction in downtime.

July Edition 2021

Reily Foods: A Century of Culture Driving Productivity Into the Next

We think you’ll love the feature story in this issue highlighting Reily Foods Productivity Award and the rich history of how their culture has evolved and matured over their almost 120 years in business.

April Edition 2021

Empowering Leaders of Tomorrow with Actionable Intel Today

In this issue we shine a spotlight on Ventura Foods’ Chambersburg, PA plant and highlight many of the factors involved in why they won the Redzone Team of the Year — East Award. Spoiler alert: their 20% productivity uplift in 90 days wasn’t the only reason!

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