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WHEN WE WERE SMALL , IT WAS
EASIER TO KEEP UP WITH PRODUCTION DEMAND , BUT WE REACHED
A POINT OF GROWTH AND
DIVERSITY WHERE WE NEEDED A
NEW APPROACH . brewery the data it needed to work out best practices and vastly improve its operations .
“ Our team on the floor compared all the systems available to us – OFS was the clear , undisputed winner . It was simple to use , made our lives easier and it supported our drive to grow and diversify while improving our uptime ,” added Sharp .
“ Before OFS , we often had three or four changes to our production schedule a day – an issue OFS identified was usually caused by a packaging delay . It was wreaking havoc on our entire team and our ability to do what we love – making great beer . Now , we ’ re down to about five schedule changes per week . We ’ re using data to assign uptime and run rates for different packages on a crewby-crew basis , leading to new best practices being discovered .”
The efficiencies Ninkasi has achieved have led it to increase its on-time-in-full ( OTIF ) orders from 40 % to 94 %, leading to better outcomes for customers and other brewers using its lines .
“ Beer has a great seasonality to it too ,” said Sharp . “ The data is easy to pull and keeps us ahead of the game when it comes to ramping up or ramping down . We ’ re prepared for what ’ s in front of us now .”
Data playing a greater role in drink production
Following the success of the OFS-X solution , Ninkasi is now considering OFS Flow to help remove paper forms and digitise manual processes . The craft brewery is also aiming to use data to reduce the level of aluminium that gets wasted as part of its sustainability initiatives .
Sharp believes this kind of technology will become a no-brainer for breweries once they reach a certain production threshold .
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