The partner who built what SyteLine doesn't ship.
40+ years building proprietary Shop Floor optimization tools that run inside SyteLine — not bolted on. The only Midwest SyteLine partner with its own product line, operational manufacturing experience on the senior team, and 800+ manufacturers in the install base.
Why Manufacturers Choose Lake Over Every Other SyteLine Partner
Manufacturing Only
Discrete manufacturing is the only thing Lake does — every customer, every project, every conversation. The team has walked the aisle in 800+ plants and speaks the operator's language before the consultant's. When you describe a setup problem or a rev change loose on the floor, you don't have to translate.
SyteLine Depth — 40+ Years
Lake has stayed on the same ERP platform — through every rename, every parent company, every major release — since 1983. That continuity means a partner who already knows your config, your industry, and the shortest path between where you are and where you need to be.
Proprietary IP
Shop-Trak, Doc-Trak, Fact-Trak, and APS-ME are not third-party plug-ins we resell. Lake built them inside SyteLine, using SyteLine's data model, and has maintained them through every major release for decades. No other Midwest SyteLine partner has a product line of their own.
OnTrak Training Program
OnTrak is Lake's customer training and adoption program — the answer to the most common reason ERP investments underperform: the people running it never get fully trained, and the people who were trained eventually leave. OnTrak keeps your team competent and your processes consistent long after go-live.
Practical Implementation Experience
The senior consultants who scope your project are the same people who will be on your floor. Most of our team came out of operational manufacturing roles before they ever sat across the table from a customer — they've run the schedule meetings and the ECO backlogs you're trying to fix.
Measurable Outcomes
Lake measures success by what changed on the shop floor — not by the go-live date. Throughput per machine, schedule adherence, labor capture rate, days to close the month. We pick a small set of operational metrics with you up front, and we're still measuring them three years later.
The products no other SyteLine partner built
Every Trak-Suite product runs inside SyteLine — no rip-and-replace, no parallel system to maintain.
Pre-built operational reporting that gets finance and operations on the same number — no BI team required.
Advanced scheduling built for discrete manufacturing — a schedule the planners actually trust and use.
40+ years of doing one thing well
- Founded as ADMS (Advanced Data Management Systems), January 13, 1983. Built on deep hands-on manufacturing experience.
- Develop Labr-Trak — the foundation of today's Shop-Trak.
- Develop Enterprise Analytics for SyteLine — now known as Fact-Trak.
- Introduce Doc-Trak for SyteLine — document control and workflow automation.
- Symix (later Frontstep) partners with Lake to distribute Shop-Trak and Doc-Trak alongside SyteLine.
- Infor acquire MAPICS, which acquired Frontstep in 2005 — SyteLine enters the global Infor portfolio.
- The Lake Companies acquired by Banyan Software.
- Chris Orr assumes role of CEO, leading company-wide transformation into an AI-first, outcomes-driven manufacturing partner.
Midwest-first. On-site when it matters.
The people behind the platform
