Crest Foods Reliability & Learning Roadshow with Plant Tour

Crest Foods Reliability and Learning Roadshow

Join your local QAD Redzone community and see how our hosts, Crest Foods, have reduced line change-over times, lowered their turnover, and increased their productivity by an additional 11% with Reliability and Learning!

During this event, you will take a private tour of the Crest Foods plant, focused on the reliability and learning modules of QAD Redzone.  You’ll also hear from their executive leadership and frontline team on how the company has transformed its shop floor, achieving:

  • Additional OEE Uplift and Productivity Increase 
  • Reduction in Average Hours Lost per Week 
  • Dozens of Plays Created 
  • Reduction in Turnover
  • 57% reduction in quality incidents since launching compliance 

Come network with industry peers in and around Illinois as they share the challenges facing their organizations and how they are tackling them.

Speakers

Jared Stumpenhorst, Operations Manager, Crest Foods
Dawn Summers, Quality Manager, Crest Foods
Erika Meiners, Human Resources, Crest Foods
Rod Burnette, Production Manager, Crest Foods
Karen Yardley, Safety & Sanitation Manager, Crest Foods
Brian Beckman, Maintenance Manager

Who should attend

Owners, CEOs, VP Ops, Continuous Improvement Executives, and Human Resource Directors 

Location

502 Browne Ave, Ashton IL, 61006

This is an executive-only event: Places are limited to 2 per company and subject to approval from the hosts.

Agenda

2:00pm-2:15pm

Introductions: Meet fellow Food, Beverage, CPG, and other industry manufacturers in your community

2:15pm-3:15pm

The Crest Foods hosts will share their journey in transforming employee engagement and optimizing maintenance through QAD Redzone’s Reliability and Learning solutions

3:15pm-4:15pm

Plant Tour: Experience Crest Foods operations and see QAD Redzone in action

4:15pm-5:00pm

Panel Discussion: Network with and hear from your peers on the challenges they’re facing today and how they’re addressing them

5:30pm

Cocktails and Food: Have a drink, unwind, and continue our great discussion

Experience a Redzone Community Event

Join Redzone for an exclusive plant tour and the opportunity to network with and learn from other Redzone Community members! Share tips and tricks and learn how to overcome challenges facing your industry. Don’t just take our word for it, check out this video from a recent Redzone Community Event.

« What has most impressed us with our use of QAD Redzone is how it gives our employees a multitude of opportunities and methods for having their voices heard. This has led to greater engagement in operational goals and led to significant improvements in all areas! The exciting thing for our organization is the realization that even with the success we have seen thus far, we know that Redzone still has more that we can leverage to take us even higher!
Jared Stumpenhorst Operations Manager, Crest Foods
« QAD Redzone has been the catalyst in the transformation of our plant – creating a more productive, collaborative, and engaged workforce which ultimately results in the best product going out to stores.
Zach Breeded Director of Operations, KIND

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