Lakeview Farms Plant consolidation and growth prompt deployment of Leading2Lean’s Lean Execution System When Lakeview Farms, a refrigerated foods manufacturer in Delphos, Ohio, brought three independently managed facilities together on one campus supported by a single maintenance department, multiple food production lines began to actively vie for the department’s services. With strong-willed operations managers and a reactive, rather than preventative, maintenance schedule, technicians were left scrambling to determine which manager to respond to and which machine to fix. The results were employee confusion, excessive overtime, an uncontrolled spare parts inventory, inaccurate machine uptime tracking and fewer wrench-time hours. After implementing Leading2Lean’s Lean Execution Sy

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