AVEVA (Schneider Electric) Case Studies New Belgium Brewing Improves Performance and Meets Customer Demands

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New Belgium Brewing Improves Performance and Meets Customer Demands

AVEVA (Schneider Electric)

Technology Category	Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Manufacturing System Automation
Services	System Integration Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	New Belgium Brewing, the third largest craft brewery and eighth largest overall brewery in the U.S., was facing challenges in meeting the growing demand for its products. The brewery lacked real-time information on unscheduled downtimes at various equipment areas, which caused production slowdowns. The production staff were continually reacting to unscheduled downtime at equipment areas. Management needed to address gaps in methods and processes to drive improvements. The bottling operation lacked the ability to predict capabilities to effectively commit brewery staff to specific production goals. Read More
About Customer	New Belgium Brewing Co. is a multi-million dollar success story in the American craft brewing industry. The company, which started as a beer brewing hobby, has grown to become the nation's third largest craft brewery and eighth largest overall brewery since 2012. The company produces some of the world's most popular craft brews, including Fat Tire and a multitude of other popular IPA, Pilsner, wheat beers and ales. The company is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Read More
Solution	New Belgium Brewing implemented a series of manufacturing automation initiatives over the last five years to streamline and improve its brewing and bottling facility. The company expanded its current Wonderware by AVEVA automation software capabilities to take advantage of its full Manufacturing Execution System capabilities. With the technical assistance of Apex Manufacturing Solutions, New Belgium achieved record levels of efficiencies in scheduled and non-scheduled downtime throughout its operations with the implementation of AVEVA’s Manufacturing Execution System software. The software provided greater visibility and a true understanding of actual production capacity for predictable order fulfillment. The brewery’s existing systems provided huge amounts of data, but with no context. The management team needed a way to effectively collect and analyse that data in order to turn it into actionable information. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Manufacturing System Automation

Services

System Integration

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

New Belgium Brewing, the third largest craft brewery and eighth largest overall brewery in the U.S., was facing challenges in meeting the growing demand for its products. The brewery lacked real-time information on unscheduled downtimes at various equipment areas, which caused production slowdowns. The production staff were continually reacting to unscheduled downtime at equipment areas. Management needed to address gaps in methods and processes to drive improvements. The bottling operation lacked the ability to predict capabilities to effectively commit brewery staff to specific production goals.

About Customer

New Belgium Brewing Co. is a multi-million dollar success story in the American craft brewing industry. The company, which started as a beer brewing hobby, has grown to become the nation's third largest craft brewery and eighth largest overall brewery since 2012. The company produces some of the world's most popular craft brews, including Fat Tire and a multitude of other popular IPA, Pilsner, wheat beers and ales. The company is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.

Solution

New Belgium Brewing implemented a series of manufacturing automation initiatives over the last five years to streamline and improve its brewing and bottling facility. The company expanded its current Wonderware by AVEVA automation software capabilities to take advantage of its full Manufacturing Execution System capabilities. With the technical assistance of Apex Manufacturing Solutions, New Belgium achieved record levels of efficiencies in scheduled and non-scheduled downtime throughout its operations with the implementation of AVEVA’s Manufacturing Execution System software. The software provided greater visibility and a true understanding of actual production capacity for predictable order fulfillment. The brewery’s existing systems provided huge amounts of data, but with no context. The management team needed a way to effectively collect and analyse that data in order to turn it into actionable information.

Impact #1	The brewery was able to delay capital investments, enabling it to maintain lower operating costs.
Impact #2	The software provided for smoother transitions between shift changes by enabling the new shift to easily view what went on during the previous shifts, which help them identify potential issues that need to be addressed by the staff.
Impact #3	The flexibility and scalability of the AVEVA’s MES software has enabled New Belgium to customise its product packaging systems to meet its unique requirements for the efficient flow of captured production management data from the plant floor systems.

Impact #1

The brewery was able to delay capital investments, enabling it to maintain lower operating costs.

Impact #2

The software provided for smoother transitions between shift changes by enabling the new shift to easily view what went on during the previous shifts, which help them identify potential issues that need to be addressed by the staff.

Impact #3

The flexibility and scalability of the AVEVA’s MES software has enabled New Belgium to customise its product packaging systems to meet its unique requirements for the efficient flow of captured production management data from the plant floor systems.

Benefit #1	OEE increased from 45% to 65% in just over 2 years.
Benefit #2	Decreased downtime by more than 50%.
Benefit #3	Efficiency of scheduled run time increased by 25% - 30%.

Benefit #1

OEE increased from 45% to 65% in just over 2 years.

Benefit #2

Decreased downtime by more than 50%.

Benefit #3

Efficiency of scheduled run time increased by 25% - 30%.

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New Belgium Brewing Improves Performance and Meets Customer Demands

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