Improving operational consistency and uptime at a key brewery in Wuhan
The world’s largest brewer, AB InBev, recommended LineView™ to their Chinese bottling plant based in Wuhan to solve the company’s inefficiencies.
- Increase line efficiencies and reduce downtime.
- Optimise management time: rapid and consistent decision-making.
- Reduce machine operator interventions: increase productivity, and reduce labor requirements.
- More effective use of maintenance and capital spending.
Lineview delivers real-time data and standardised performance management
To address these challenges, the Wuhan brewery implemented LineView as their central production monitoring system. LineView provided site teams with real-time data and a clear visual interface that highlighted critical areas of inefficiency. The solution allowed the brewery to focus on key performance drivers and establish consistent routines for performance reviews, enabling more effective decision-making and faster corrective actions.
Streamlined Meetings and SIC
LineView optimizes Short Interval Control (SIC) reviews and shift handovers by providing all necessary information on a single page. This allows the team to quickly plan actions, conduct efficient reviews every four hours, and escalate unresolved issues within 24 hours.
Sustained Change
Through improved routines such as the implementation of Lineview’s IFA Methodology (Information x Focus x Action), the team at the Wuhan operation has achieved sustained changes and surpassed their original improvement goals across production departments.
" Lineview enables us to make our maintenance and PM plan more targeted, greatly improving the equipment reliability. It is an extremely flexible tool that delivers long term sustainable results. All done automatically with the click of a button." - Shiming Tu, Maintenance Supervisor, AB InBev Wuhan
Significant efficiency gains and better uptime at the Wuhan brewery
The team has not only replaced manual recording of plant events, Budweiser Wuhan International Brewing Company Limited now understands their True Causal Loss using LineView.
Reduced maintenance and capital spending
The maintenance team accomplished their goal of a more effective use of maintenance and capital spending. Lineview transformed the maintenance and PM plan to be more targeted, greatly improving equipment reliability.
Better time management and shift handovers
Actionable data from LineView offers the team leverage to plan management routines. For example, the team now carry out a SIC review every four hours and the system provides all the information they need on one page to create an action plan based on the opportunities.
Reduction in downtime
AB InBev Wuhan has significantly reduced Production Down Time (PDT) making them one of the top 3 in terms of efficiency across the group globally.
