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Expanding LT³ Company Wide

One of our customers*, a leading North American cooperative, operates more than 30 plants, processing billions of liters of milk annually and producing a wide range of dairy products. This cooperative is a significant player in the dairy industry, producing cheese, butter, powders, and other value-added dairy products for global markets.

Project Summary: An Evolving Partnership

One Line: In 2020, our client partnered with Letico to implement LT³ on a single production line. LT³ is our powerful yield control system that improves product weight accuracy, minimizes giveaways, and enhances overall production efficiency.

Multiple Lines: In 2021, following the successful implementation in 2021, our client expanded LT³ across multiple lines and facilities, leveraging its data capabilities to optimize raw material usage and operational performance across the company.

Company-wide: As of 2025, the client now uses LT³ on multiple lines across several facilities, integrating with numerous scales and checkweighers, providing optimization at the line, plant, and company-wide levels.

Customer Benefits

Waste Reduction: LT³’s data-driven insights helped our client reduce material waste by minimizing overfills and ensuring precise portion control.
Operational Efficiency: Our client improved production across multiple lines and facilities, achieving measurable cost savings and optimizing resources.
Client-Wide Benefits: Our client’s success with LT³ led to the integration of new features across Letico’s entire client base, enhancing the capabilities of LT³ for all users.

Challenge

To centralize and automate production line efficiency across multiple facilities and production lines, covering a variety of equipment types and configurations, both new and legacy, with one unified solution.

Context

The client’s operations include both internal growth and acquisitions, requiring flexible and adaptable solutions like LT³ to integrate data from a range of production machinery.

Solution

2020: Initial Implementation

First Installation: The client’s engineering and quality control teams, familiar with LT³ from previous projects, advocated for its installation. Within months of deployment, LT³ identified line inefficiencies and uncovered improvement opportunities. This data-driven visibility helped the client achieve gains that went beyond initial expectations, revealing opportunities for improvement that were previously undetectable.

2021: New Feature

IndividualTarget Mode: After a year of success, Letico developed and introduced LT³’s IndividualTarget Mode, which adjusts product weight by tracking the position of each piece in the cutting sequence. This innovation enabled the client to comply with a zero-underweight policy while maintaining precision. The result was an optimized cutting process, improving portion consistency while generating cost savings. This development strengthened the client’s relationships and contributed to LT³’s expanded facility-wide application.

2022: Facility-Wide Expansion

Expansion: By 2022, LT³ was installed on multiple lines across the client’s facilities, optimizing production for various products. LT³’s real-time data collection and advanced analytics significantly reduced waste and operational costs.

2022: New Feature

MilkMonitor Mode: Letico continued to enhance LT³’s functionality with features like MilkMonitor Mode, introduced at the third facility. This feature integrated data from a milk analyzer, offering 15-minute snapshots of key properties like fat, salt, humidity, and protein levels, improving quality control and yield. The key in this case was timing: LT³ results were instantaneous, allowing operators to act on the data, whereas results from the previous manual system were only available the next day.

2024–2025 and onward: Scaling Across Multiple Facilities

Expansion: Currently, the client has LT³ running in multiple facilities and is collecting data from several scales. With each installation, LT³’s real-time data enables the client to detect production anomalies and implement timely corrections, further improving operational efficiency.
Going forward: The client continues to expand its use of LT³.

Data-Driven Decision Making

The client’s journey with LT³ illustrates Letico’s continued dedication to providing a one-stop-shop for global raw material optimization with a dependable process of implementation:

Start small and scale up based on proven results.
Benefit from Letico’s continual reinvestment in LT³ to add features that allow it to be used across all types of production lines and applications.
Leverage feature upgrades from other users to expand monitoring in your own facilities.
Proceed with confidence knowing that LT³ is the most robust and secure solution for optimizing production across the food processing industry.

Unlock Plant-Wide Performance Gains with LT³

Our client began with a single production line and successfully scaled LT³ across multiple facilities. The benefits include real-time insights, automated payback, mass balance reporting, streamlined operations, and reduced manual effort, which is especially valuable in high-turnover environments.

Let’s explore how LT³ can transform your production lines.

*This real-world account of LT³ is anonymized to protect the intellectual property of our client.

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