Aurora Organic Dairy To Implement CDC Factory Offering

CDC Software, an enterprise software provider of on-premise and cloud deployments, has said that Aurora Organic Dairy, a North American organic private-label producer of milk-based products, plans to implement CDC Factory, a manufacturing operations management (MOM) system, at its Platteville, Colorado plant to help maintain margins, while remaining price competitive for consumers during the price-sensitive post-recessionary economic climate.

The company claims that CDC Factory is a platform that is used to standardize improved daily work control practices and formalize the continuous improvement initiatives already in place. CDC Factory integrates the functionality of shop floor data capture, packaged metrics like OEE, analytics and scorecards, improvement capabilities and paperless quality management.

The company said that this program included the need for real-time plant metrics such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), in addition to restructuring the plant workplace to enable workers to be more responsive to what is happening on the plant floor.

John Beutler, plant manager at Aurora Organic Dairy, said: “We are looking forward to working with CDC Software because they spoke our language from the very beginning. They were the only vendor that offered a holistic solution with out-of-the-box functionality that could support our continuous improvement processes and begin delivering results quickly.”

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Aurora Organic Dairy is a privately held vertically integrated 'from cow to carton' organic dairy producer that operates its manufacturing facility outside of Denver.

The company specializes in private-label and store-brand milk and butter, cream, and non-fat dry milk for grocery retailers and natural food stores. It also supplies industrial customers with bulk milk, cream, butter, and non-fat dry milk.