Food Industry

The Food Industry often faces intense price pressure, staff recruiting and skills, short lead times and perishable product. All these stressors have helped develop some of the best practices within the food industry, that, at their core, promote many Lean Manufacturing fundamentals!

By implementing Lean within your organization, you will:

• Improve work place organization, safety and sanitation
• Decrease change over times between products
• Implement streamlined, standard operating procedures
• Put in place metrics to identify and drive down ‘give away’, scrap and lost running time

In fact, many food companies that have adopted these best practices develop a solid foundation on which to build increased Lean Manufacturing success.

Our consultants have years of experience in the food industry as both hands-on managers and consultants.

• As managers we have run operations such as a chocolate maker, coffee company and pharmaceuticals and know first-hand many of the challenges of running a food processor! We understand your struggles.
• As consultants we have worked with an even wider spectrum of food processors including bakeries, breweries, potato processors, ready foods, snack foods and more.

Your company will gain our first-hand knowledge to help grow your business!

To start your Lean Journey in your Food shop, contact us at 403-470-1659 or info@appliedperformance.ca.

Food processors looking to start or for help with their Lean Journey may be able to apply to Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development for grant money. This grant will help with some of the consulting and other costs incurred in your process. For more information see the “Growing Forward 2” program at http://www.growingforward.alberta.ca/.

Alternatively, you can contact the program lead:

Nicola Stevens

Senior Development Officer

nicola.stevens@gov.ab.ca

Crop Business Development Branch