Case Study: E.A. Sween Company boosts preventive maintenance by 250% and scales nationally with Brightly Software’s Asset Essentials

E.A. Sween Increases Productivity & Expansion with Brightly’s Asset Essentials

E.A. Sween Company, a third-generation, family-owned producer of ready-to-eat sandwiches based in Eden Prairie, MN, operates three manufacturing facilities with 39 maintenance staff and produces over 100 million sandwiches annually. Leadership aimed to expand nationally, but paper-based parts tracking and manual maintenance processes made scaling and consistent equipment upkeep difficult—preventive maintenance completion had fallen sharply when production increased.

By implementing Brightly’s Asset Essentials, E.A. Sween digitized and documented more than 7,000 parts (with photos, diagrams, and min/max reorder points), centralized work orders, and used analytics to right-size preventive maintenance staffing and schedules. The system made onboarding new plants straightforward, significantly increased preventive maintenance completion (over a 250% improvement), and gave the company the inventory visibility and repeatable processes needed to expand seamlessly.

E.A. Sween Company

Erik Williams

Maintenance Planner