AM is good for you
24 Mar 2008
London - Diageo is rolling out a new asset management programme across its production sites worldwide, following the success of a three-year initiative at the St James’s Gate brewery — the production centre for Guinness in Ireland.
The famous Dublin brewery recently became the first worldwide to achieve management consultancy MCP’s Asset Management Improvement System (AMIS) world class operational status.
The AMIS benchmarking audit and improvement programme focused on best practice asset management and performance improvements across the brewing and kegging departments. This covered quality, service, health & safety, environmental performance and cost management.
Less than 4% of the 4,000 participating companies around the world have achieved world-class AMIS status, according to MCP. The firm lists companies using its programme as including Coors, Johnson and Johnson, GSK, Gillette, PepsiCo and Pfizer.
The St James’s Gate brewery has also recently been accredited to two new standards in Energy Management (IS393) and Food Safety (ISO22000) and won three national awards; in safety, environmental performance and energy management.
