Molson Coors’ World Class Manufacturing journey with TRACC began in 2005. Molson Coors uses WCM to support people development and profitability goals by delivering process improvements and creating an environment where people are involved, and have the tools and capabilities to improve their performance. Brewing is an asset-intensive industry, Asset Care has been a key focus, rewarding the company with impressive wins including increased overall plant reliability, reduced maintenance costs, increased factory efficiency and line efficiency.

CCI BUSINESS PARTNER AND INTENT GROUP PRINCIPAL DONALD BOWIE DESCRIBES THE IMPROVEMENT IN FONTERRA’S INFORMATION SERVICES (IS) PROVISIONING PROCESS.

WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING AND PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT ARE COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGES FOR CAN-PACK SA, WRITES TRACC CONSULTANT TOMASZ SENDYKA.

Improvements exceeded expectations after Kellogg’s embarked on its WCM journey. Fernando Teixeira, Kellogg’s Manufacturing Director for Mexico and Central America, and Pedro Torres-Rivero Valenotti, TRACC On-site Project Coordinator, describe the process.

SABMiller's subsidiary in Poland uses TRACC to improve manufacturing practices; realizes 500% ROI and captures Market Share

DuPont's Don Wirth and Tom Takacs talk to Phase 5 Managing Director Dean Cook about the secret behind the success of DuPont's global TRACC roll-out.

The Land O'Lakes Spencer Plant in the USA is using TRACC to improve the condition and reliability of critical equipment, deferring large capital expenditures in the process. Phase 5 Group Senior Director Roger Price explains.

One of 11 breweries of the MillerCoors Brewing Company, the state-of-the-art Coors Shenandoah brewery is located five miles south of Elkton, Virginia in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. This brewery won the Beverage World 2008 Plant of the Year award.

Competition in the generic pharmaceutical market, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, is robust. Mindful of this, Polish-based pharmaceutical giant Polpharma decided to introduce WCM, using the TRACC Best Practices as its point of departure.

Coca-Cola SCMC in China operates through a supply location network of 17 plants, of which the Dongguan plant in Guangdong province is the largest. It operates four beverage lines with both hot and aseptic filling technology, and was the first plant in the group to implement CCI's digiTRACC technology.

With increased global pressure on manufacturing industries to become more efficient, the Nigerian Bottling Company identified a need to implement TPM practices. Read more about the unique challenges the implementation team had to face...

Compañia Cervecerias Unidas (CCU) is the largest brewery and beverage company in Chile. When the group launched its Supply Chain Optimisation (OCA) programme as part of its WCM journey, the TRACC Foundation Best Practices formed the backbone of the implementation.

Coca-Cola FEMSA is the world's second-largest Coca-Cola bottler and the largest in Latin America. The group implemented TRACC as the basis for strengthening and supporting the High Performance System management framework throughout its plants in Mexico.

Kaizen blitz results at Fonterra subsidiary Canpac demonstrated that changeover times could be cut by 50%, exceeding the improvement target of 30%. Ever since, Canpac aims to sustain the continuous improvement process through the effective utilisation of VPM and the other TRACC best practice components. John Chase, CCI business consultant, New Zealand and Glenn Laing of Fonterra give the low-down.

Guinness Nigeria plc (GNPLC) – jointly owned by the world's premium drinks company Diageo and consumer goods giant Unilever - matches Ireland in both production and consumption. But what really sparked the Diageo global support team's interest though, were the implementation successes it achieved with the Fast TRACC RCM and PIP projects.

Some time ago one of Africa's largest bottling companies, ABI, identified a need to optimise production management and process efficiencies at all its South African plants. This included, among others, the formal introduction of a Business Centred Maintenance (BCM) plan.

SABMiller plc was the first international brewer to enter Central America. The group has since expanded its Latin American operations into six countries. The century-old Industrias La Constancia (ILC) brewery in San Salvador (capital of El Salvador), is the subject of this case study.

An initial Best Practice Assessment by a three-man CCI team indicated that some of Czech-based brewery Plzensky Prazdroj's older manufacturing practices were hampering it in its quest to become the top brewery in Europe. This is how the issue was addressed...