After consolidating three of its production facilities under one roof, Lakeview Farms, a Delphos, Ohio-based producer of desserts, dips and specialty foods, turned to Leading2Lean, a cloud-based lean manufacturing software solutions provider based in Wellington, Nev., to reduce costs and bolster performance.
Lakeview Farms, whose brands include Fresh Creations, Gracious Grits, Luisa’s and Señor Rico, says bringing the production into one facility underscored an outdated system for addressing preventative maintenance and the spare parts inventory. This required cumbersome paperwork and spreadsheets and led to tension of employee relations and excessive overtime.