GOLDEN GUERNSEY DAIRY

Leading Dairy Producer Improves Safety and Reduces Costs with ShockWatch ImpactManager™ ID.

Goal | Improve safety, limit access, and reduce damage to equipment and facility Solution | ShockWatch ImpactManager™ ID Result | Dramatic decrease in number of monthly impacts from 1,036 to 4
When Golden Guernsey Dairy became overwhelmed with accidents and maintenance costs due to reckless forklift driving, the company took action. As Wisconsin’s top milk producer, Golden Guernsey, a division of Foremost Farms USA, knew that improved safety and cost containment were critical for a successful future. Although the dairy had always encouraged its 100 operators to drive carefully, it had no formal system for preventing damage. Fortunately, Golden Guernsey’s material handling equipment vendor, Wisconsin Lift Truck Corporation, instantly recommended the ShockWatch ImpactManager™ ID to help solve these issues. Golden Guernsey’s Plant Engineer Larry Keeney and Safety Director Jeff Hayes were instrumental in analyzing the problem, evaluating the ShockWatch system, and overseeing the project implementation.Golden Guernsey began by using just one ImpactManager ID on a trial basis in November 2003. The company industrial saw an immediate decrease in damage caused by that vehicle, and soon equipped all 11 of its lift trucks with the devices. In just two months, the number of monthly impacts fell — astonishingly — from 1,036 to just four. The ShockWatch industrial monitoring system has enabled Golden Guernsey to sustain that low rate ever since.“ShockWatch provides an easy solution that is proven to work,” said Mark Wargolet, Customer Support Representative at Wisconsin Lift Truck Corporation. “And the ShockWatch service representatives have been invaluable in providing professional on-site training and ongoing support to us and our customers.” The ImpactManager ID limits equipment access to certified operators in the dairy’s 150,000-square foot facility. For Golden Guernsey, the alarm is a key feature because it not only sounds on impact, but also prevents the engine from running for more than 10-second intervals after an impact. Even attempts to hide accidents fail because the device reports each incident and the offending operator’s identity through an internal network. Knowing that the equipment is monitored causes operators to drive at safer speeds, resulting in significantly fewer incidents and a much safer environment for all the workers.“Larry Keeney does an excellent job managing this system and monitoring the ShockWatch management reports, so he can instruct employees about proper equipment usage when necessary,” said Wargolet. “This is exactly the type of resolution that the ShockWatch system was designed to deliver.”

The ShockWatch system more than paid for itself within three months. We should’ve installed these years ago.

— Larry Keeney Plant EngineerGolden Guernsey Dairy Jim Prey, Capital Equipment Sales Representative at Wisconsin Lift Truck Corporation, works with Larry Keeney, Plant Engineer at Golden Guernsey Dairy, to monitor equipment usage with ShockWatch technology. They use the ImpactManager ID on all 11 of the dairy’s large CAT trucks. ImpactManager ID This document contains trademarks and registered trademarks of Media Recovery, Inc. in the United States of America. This document contains text and graphics that are individually protected by copyright. 1111 W. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 1050 | Dallas, Texas 75247800.527.9497 | Fax 214.638.4512 | info@shockwatch.com www.shockwatch.com