Case Study: Litehouse achieves doubled utilization and 9-month ROI with Aptean Process Manufacturing OEE

Improves Performance through Real-Time Visibility and Quality with Aptean

Litehouse Foods, a $300M, employee-owned food manufacturer known for refrigerated dressings, cheeses and dips, was operating on a fully manual, paper-based system across four plants. With no real-time visibility and over 400 downtime codes per line, the company greatly overestimated its performance—believing uptime was 60–70% when actual utilization was only 18–25%—and struggled to generate timely reports or identify improvement opportunities.

By deploying Aptean Process Manufacturing OEE (rapid two-week rollout) Litehouse gained real-time visibility, digitized quality checks, and actionable production metrics. The result: utilization climbed from ~25% to over 50%, full ROI was achieved in nine months (instead of the projected 18), better product-level costing and run-rate tracking, improved forecasting accuracy (within ~5%), and a stronger continuous-improvement culture across operations.

Litehouse

Don Reese

Litehouse