Anheuser-Busch InBev has been expanding its range of beers.
But producing a greater variety of beers was challenging, and the company noticed its bottom line was being limited by planned downtime activities – such as the start-ups and brand changes necessary to produce all these beverages. And as the number of brands increased, so did these planned downtimes.
Using Minitab to analyse its data, a dedicated team completed a Lean Six Sigma project that not only reduced planned downtime and saved money, but provided a solution the company could roll out globally to multiply the project’s success.
Comment: The UK is closer to deindustrialisation than reindustrialisation
"..have been years in the making" and are embedded in the actors - thus making it difficult for UK industry to move on and develop and apply...