CHALLENGE
The world’s largest brewer, AB InBev, recommended LineView™ to their Chinese bottling plant based in Wuhan to remedy the company’s struggles with efficiencies. Replacing manually recording of plant events, Budweiser Wuhan International Brewing Company Limited began reviewing the LineView™ offering and as of September 2016, their exploration into True Causal Loss with LineView™ was underway.
The world’s largest brewer, AB InBev, recommended LineView™ to their Chinese bottling plant based in Wuhan to remedy the company’s struggles with efficiencies. Replacing manually recording of plant events, Budweiser Wuhan International Brewing Company Limited began reviewing the LineView™ offering and as of September 2016, their exploration into True Causal Loss with LineView™ was underway.
The key areas that the company were focused on to achieve better results include the following
- Increase line efficiencies and reduce downtime.
- Optimise management time: rapid and consistent decision making.
- Reduce machine operator interventions: increase productivity, reduce labour requirement.
- More effective use of maintenance and capital spending.
SOLUTION
LineView™ is an automated data gathering and visualisation system, monitoring the whole production line performance all day, every day, providing Budweiser Wuhan International Brewing Company Limited with analysis of their causal losses and a timeline illustrating precisely when the loss occurred.
As LineView™ is a web based application, users can view the information from anywhere, anytime.
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Built-in Meeting Modules
LineView™ has a built-in meeting module that supports AB InBev China’s management process. For example, the team now carries out a Short Interval Control (SIC) review every four hours with the system providing all the information required on a single page. The team then creates an action plan based on the opportunities.
Quick and Effective Shift Handovers
LineView™ provides both operators and management the information necessary to carry out a quick and effective shift handover. In addition, the system is used to escalate issues that have not been resolved in the last twenty-four hours to the daily meeting.
In addition to actionable data leveraged through operational management routines, LineView™ offers the team an extensive reporting system which supports their strategic plans. For example, they can 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.
Sustained Change through the IFA Methodology
Through improved routines such as the implementation of LineView’s IFA Methodology (Information x Focus x Action), the team at the Wuhan operation have achieved sustained changes and surpassed their original improvement goals across production departments.
For instance, the maintenance team accomplished their goal of a more effective use of maintenance and capital spending.
“LineView™ enables us to make our maintenance and PM plan more targeted, greatly improving the equipment reliability,” comments Shiming Tu, Maintenance Supervisor. “LineView™ is an extremely flexible tool that delivers long term sustainable results. All done automatically with a click of a button.”
IFA is LineView’s core manufacturing improvement methodology, proven to work and has helped numerous clients achieve World Class OEE.
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INFORMATION
Accurate
Consistent
VisualDo we have the right data?
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FOCUS
Management routines
Leadership buy-in
effective decision-makingAre we using data in the best way possible?
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ACTION
Targeted activity
Pro-active improvement
Forward-focusedAre the actions we are taking effective?
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RESULTS
Step change
Continuous improvement
Sustainable benefits
RESULTS
Since realising the results that LineView™ has brought to the company thus far, the team created the following ambitious goals for their operation:
- Best Supply Chain in ABI
- Top Three in Global Efficiency