A.G. Barr - AMIS Journey
Irn-Bru gets them through and A.G. Barr achieve World-Class within 2 years
A.G. Barr’s Milton Keynes site was first assessed using the AMIS Assessment in November 2016 and an improvement plan was agreed upon.
Following subsequent AMIS Assessments in 2017 and again in 2018, Milton Keynes has achieved ‘World Class Performance’ through MCP’s AMIS Journey within an impressive 2-year period.
A.G. Barr has been in the business of quenching the nation’s thirst since 1875, creating and selling some of the UK’s best-loved soft drinks in the process, including the iconic Irn-Bru and market-leading Rubicon exotic fruit juice drink.
The Milton Keynes site, opened in October 2013, is the regional office, production and distribution centre and since then has seen a tenfold increase in output.
The Solution
As part of a planned Continuous Improvement Programme and a well-developed maintenance strategy, MCP Consulting Group Ltd. was requested to support Asset Management and Maintenance Improvement across the site. The AMIS Journey (Asset Maintenance Improvement System), was facilitated by MCP and used to measure A.G. Barr’s ‘asset maintenance performance’ on a consistent basis against a worldwide benchmark of peer group companies.
The Results
Amongst the impressive results are:
4-5% OEE increase in last 12 months
New process equipment continues to perform as new
>98% assets captured on CMMS system
100% Preventative Maintenance Schedule Completion Rate
Asset Criticality Process conducted on all assets and output loaded onto CMMS
Operators raising work requests directly onto CMMS
>30 continuous improvement work requests raised per month on CMMS
Lean techniques have been applied to maintenance activities
Results show that the site is well above the Soft Drinks sector average for all the assessed sections, including General Maintenance, Cost Management, Productivity, Materials Management and Training and Safety.
Production equipment maintenance standards are World-Class, Operators can raise work orders for faults directly onto the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and new fault tagging systems have been introduced in addition to a rigorous Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process.
A.G. Barr Milton Keynes has proved that by developing a maintenance strategy, with a focus on CI, supported by a team-based approach, organisations are able to achieve World-Class performance which delivers significant savings and performance improvements in record time!
The AMIS Journey focuses on improving asset maintenance effectiveness, methods and systems.
The AMIS Assessment is designed to benchmark an organisation’s performance, identify the gaps against best practice and create the scope for improvement.
