Teamwork in the maintenance department often results in new business, higher profitability and steady growth.

Persistence and patience help bakery operations teams find solutions to challenging issues.

Delivering a positive, data-filled, proof-based message will be successful with both employees and providers.

Bakery maintenance challenges can be addressed by creating backups for each talent area.

The beginning of each year provides maintenance departments with an opportunity to start over and implement change their bakeries often desperately need.

Apply the internal customer principle to transform bakery maintenance departments into a more proactive part of the organization.

Using an affinity diagram process can help bakeries complete goals on time and on budget.

Implementing pre-flight procedures to check the reassembly of machines and systems can save time and money.

Applying the fix or repair daily (FORD) approach can improve bakery maintenance.

Start a strict regimen for problem-solving in a bakery to create long-lasting improvements.