New Signature

CTO: Reed Wiedower

New Signature, a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft partner, has flaunted its Internet of Things sweet spot by helping The Hershey Company wire its existing production equipment.

New Signature helped Hershey save hundreds of thousands of dollars, decrease waste, and create a leaner operation, through connecting its infrastructure so that popular candy – like licorice – could be tracked digitally for weight and other factors along every stage of the production and packaging processes. That data is sent from the machines to the Azure IoT Hub, into the cloud, and analyzed with Microsoft Stream Analytics.

New Signature holds a silver-level competency from Microsoft in data analytics and a gold-level competency in cloud platform and cloud productivity.