Your partner in food manufacturing

Unity Solutions helps food manufacturers stabilize operations, navigate FSIS scrutiny, and support their plants when the regulators come. Our clients receive hands-on implementation, not slide decks.

Trusted by food and beverage manufacturers — and the private equity firms that invest in them.

FSIS / HACCP

food safety expertise

Operations

performance improvement

MOS

built and stabilized

Food Safety & FSIS Regulatory

Support during noncompliance, HACCP reassessments, and validation studies that hold up under scrutiny

Investor Due Diligence

An operator’s read on the operational and food safety risk you’re buying — before you sign

Performance Improvement

OEE, changeovers, and process variability — hands-on engagements that intstall systems that hold.

management Software

Take your management operating system from paper into something your teams actually use with Taskmaverick implementation.

—What We Do—

Highest-stakes areas first

Ben partnered directly with our frontline and leadership teams daily. He went shoulder‑to‑shoulder to tighten processes and close critical performance gaps. Within weeks we recorded higher OEE and smoother changeovers; months later the gains are still holding. His hands‑on style reshaped our culture and left us with a repeatable playbook for sustained growth.

Faced with an aggressive timeline, Ben guided our lab to full certification ahead of schedule. His systematic approach delivered full compliance. The robust systems he installed continue to be effective.

Ben rolled up his sleeves, got on the floor with our team, and fixed problems we didn’t even realize were costing us money.

He streamlined our production workflows and built a culture of accountability that stabilized line performance. Process variability dropped, throughput increased, and our teams now own the continuous‑improvement routines he introduced.

What people are saying

—Why Unity—

Excellence in Food Manufacturing

Known for our hands-on approach, Unity Solutions helps plants navigate the complexity of USDA and FSIS regulation and plant oversight.

—Results that speak for themselves—

These numbers are taken from Case Study 4: 18 Week Operational Excellence Payoff.

Improved OEE

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improved from 65% to 73% (7.5 points) which led to a $334,530 annualized benefit.

Decreased Shrink

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Shrink decreased from 1.7% to 1.5% (0.2 points) which led to a $225,000 annualized benefit.

Annualized ROI

100 %

Payoff was reached at 61 days — less than halfway through the engagement.

True progress only happens when strong leaders are backed by robust systems, freeing them to focus on what truly matters: empowering their people, and safely producing product.

— Ben Hankinson

CEO | Principal Consultant

Ben Hankinson

CEO | Principal Consultant

Ben, Co-Founder of Unity Solutions, is a seasoned leader and commercial food production expert dedicated to helping organizations thrive through operations and food safety transformation. With a unique blend of operational expertise—from managing at the world’s largest liquid egg manufacturing plant to serving as a military leader—Ben combines strategic insight, discipline, and hands-on leadership to deliver real results.

As principal consultant at Unity Solutions, Ben specializes in identifying and resolving the root causes of organizational challenges. He works closely with clients to design tailored systems that enable employees to thrive and reduce the need for reactive leadership. Whether crafting food safety plans, improving operational efficiency, or implementing software systems, Ben’s pragmatic approach sparks action and measurable results.

Passionate about leadership and driven by a commitment to excellence, Ben believes that aligning culture with organizational goals is the key to long-term success. He thrives on breaking down operational barriers and creating actionable strategies that allow facilities to operate at their full potential.

Employees led

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Food safety crises managed

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Average annual plant revenue

$ 0 M

leveraged value