637ba092370cfa62057dcce0 - KPM Success Story Butterfly Breasts Vision v1
637ba092370cfa62057dcce0 - KPM Success Story Butterfly Breasts Vision v1
637ba092370cfa62057dcce0 - KPM Success Story Butterfly Breasts Vision v1
of Butterfly Chicken
Breasts
How one meat producer increased product
sampling by 3X, leading to better quality & data
analytics
KPM Analytics had the privilege to work with one of the CUSTOMER CHALLENGE
US’ leading producers of poultry products. Distributed
Once the incoming butterfly breasts are inspected and
through leading retailers and used by restaurants
graded, they proceed to the cutting area to be portioned
throughout the country, this company strives to deliver
into fillets, strips, and chunks, based on the measurement
the highest quality goods, incorporating the most
data obtained by the incoming QA team.
advanced technologies across its vertically integrated
operations. Reliable measurements are paramount in order to
optimize the downstream processes and achieve high-
Some of the most popular products produced by this
quality end products that comply with the specifications
company are derived from boneless, skinless, butterfly
set out by their own customers and regulatory bodies,
chicken breasts which are processed in lots of 40,000
with as little waste as possible.
lb. As part of its established incoming acceptance
procedures, approximately 200lb (0.5%) from each lot The company recognized that the existing process of
is sampled to validate the size and other observable manual inspection is prone to subjective observation
characteristics by caliper measurement and visual and variability by individual inspectors. By example,
inspection. The results are recorded by hand and made because poultry is quite malleable, one operator can
available for downstream groups to manually enter into apply more pressure to a caliper than another, resulting
the company’s existing quality assurance systems. in different measurements for the same piece.
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