Lakeside Can Help You Achieve Your Critical COVID-19 Production Pivot

April 20, 2020

Dear Valued Customers,

Find out how Lakeside can assist your company in mobilizing to fight the spread of COVID-19.

If you are interested or in the midst of switching from making cars, beverages, apparel or cosmetics to producing medical equipment and supplies, masks or hand sanitizer, Lakeside can help you with the transition.

Pivoting Manufacturing priorities can involve sharing and re-training your workforce, re-tooling, coordinating and re-purposing equipment, and machinery utilization. These changes are happening within days; efforts that would otherwise take months.

Lakeside offers expertise and services in the following areas that might benefit you in this endeavor:

Process Automation Training

Are you introducing new equipment, or manufacturing processes and workflows within your facilities as a result of re-tooling, or re-purposing equipment and machinery utilization? Lakeside offers in-depth process automation product knowledge as well as experience with all industrial applications.

Emergency 24/7 services

As you pivot production priorities within your facilities, be it to either manufacture a product relevant to the fight against COVID-19 or to increase production as a necessity to the community, we are here to help you at all hours. Our Emergency assistance services include engineering support, supply of automation products, and the dispatch of professional on-site services to carry on any troubleshooting or repairs.

Equipment expertise

Re-tooling and re-purposing equipment and machinery utilization within a short time frame may leave you in need of expertise pertaining to a particular type of equipment and its capabilities. Lakeside has what you need to help you attain the knowledge and guidance you need to move forward without downtime.

Process optimization services

Process optimization may be required as you transition manufacturing practices, especially when they need to be completed within a short time frame. Talk to our experts to consult or perform optimization tasks such as loop tuning, alarm optimization, and control narrative within your facility.

Engineering Services

Our team of knowledgeable and experienced engineers have a deep understanding of applications within every industry. If part of your manufacturing pivot endeavor requires you to explore the capabilities of automation equipment (be it measurement instruments, pumps, compressors, safety relief valves, control valves, controllers, etc.) we can help you understand what your next steps may be.

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