Profitability in turkey processing often depends on a few critical factors: reducing downtime, increasing line efficiency, maximizing yield, and minimizing giveaway. That’s why leading poultry processors turn to CAT Squared’s MES for turkey processing -- an integrated software platform built to tackle the unique challenges of poultry production and deliver measurable results.
CAT Squared is proud to be the trusted Manufacturing Execution System (MES) provider for poultry processors around the globe. Our software is selected by 8 of the top 15 U.S. turkey producers, including Butterball, Jennie-O, Cargill, Perdue Farms, Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative, Cooper Farms, Norbest, and Dakota Provisions.
Why CAT Squared is the Preferred MES for Turkey Processing
Our CYNERGY™ MES platform is designed for producers seeking advanced turkey processing software that adapts to real-world challenges—such as managing bird size variability, improving poultry yield management, reducing waste, and boosting operational efficiency.
Unlike broiler chickens, turkeys vary significantly in size and quality, introducing complexity to primary poultry processing. Managing this variability is essential for optimizing equipment settings, maintaining consistent throughput, and protecting profitability. That’s why so many top turkey processors trust CAT Squared: our MES system for poultry processing delivers the real-time insight and control they need to adapt proactively, minimize losses, and ensure product quality.
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"CAT Squared is the best MES system for our industry. I’ve used CAT Squared in our production plant for years, and there is nothing else on the market that is better aligned with our production processes."
— Lee Simonsen, IT Director at Turkey Valley Farms
Common Turkey Processing Challenges Solved by CAT Squared
Turkey processing plants face many operational challenges, including:
- Inability to pinpoint areas of yield loss
- Lack of real-time production visibility
- Inconsistent or inaccurate data collection
- Difficulty tracking and ranking grower performance
- Seasonal and flock variability impacting yields
CAT Squared’s turkey processing software addresses these challenges with real-time visibility and actionable data across the plant.
Enhanced Grower Performance Tracking for Poultry Processors
CYNERGY™ enables processors to build detailed grower performance profiles and monitor flock trends across farms and seasons. This provides the tools needed to:
- Proactively adjust processes to incoming bird size and quality
- Optimize equipment settings for varying flock profiles
- Rank and reward growers based on yield, quality, and performance
- Identify underperforming flocks to reduce risks and losses
By capturing historical grower performance data year-over-year, poultry processors can better manage seasonality, disease risk, and flock health variability — leading to smarter production decisions and higher profits.
Real-Time Defect Management and Quality Control
Our poultry MES system provides real-time dashboards for monitoring poultry yield KPIs across slaughter, evisceration, chilling, and beyond. With real-time defect tracking, processors can identify quality issues immediately, reducing rework, improving product consistency, and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Increased Operational Efficiency in Poultry Processing
From kill schedule tracking to real-time production yield reporting, CAT Squared’s platform gives plant managers:
- Visibility to reduce downtime
- Insights to optimize throughput
- Tools to improve labor efficiency
- Controls to reduce rework and maximize resource use
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Seamless Integration with Poultry Plant Equipment
As a hardware-agnostic MES platform, CAT Squared integrates easily with existing poultry plant equipment. This ensures seamless data capture, reduces implementation time, and protects existing technology investments.
Real-Time Poultry Processing Data for Smarter Decision-Making
With CYNERGY’s real-time poultry data analytics, processors can:
- Maximize yield and minimize waste
- Improve order fulfillment rates
- Reduce giveaway
- Boost product quality
- Support continuous improvement across operations
Actionable reporting transforms raw data into strategic insights that protect margins and drive growth.
How Poultry Yield Reporting Powers Profitable Turkey Processing
CAT Squared’s CYNERGY™ yield reporting tools transform operational data into actionable strategies for improving production.
Key metrics tracked include:
- Live Shrink: Monitoring bird weight loss from farm to plant.
- Dead-on-Arrival (DOA) Rate: Ensuring animal welfare and early identification of transport issues.
- Condemnation Rates by Cause: Linking yield loss directly to flock and grower performance.
- Processing Yield by Stage: Identifying where yield losses occur in slaughter, evisceration, and chilling.
- Cost per Pound of Yield: Providing a full view of production costs and profitability.
With configurable alerts and executive dashboards, teams can monitor plant-wide or flock-specific KPIs, enabling rapid responses and continuous optimization.
These real-time insights don’t just cut waste—they drive a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organization, ensuring long-term gains in yield, efficiency, and profitability.
Learn more about our approach in our CYNERGY First Processing White Paper.
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