Weetabix Award
53North Group are delighted to receive an award for the support given to Weetabix over the last two years. 53North’s main objective is to help take Weetabix forward through improvements in reliability, plant performance as well as maintenance cost effectiveness. The award provides acknowledgement that working together with Weetabix we have made great improvements.
Weetabix had this to say about our asset care partnership, “53North Group have changed our behaviors in the way we do maintenance. All Maintenance used to require outage time. Now the maintenance routines have been optimised so that up to 50% can be one safely while the lines are running. 53North Group have bought in new predictive technology. Coupled with a training programme to transfer knowledge. The methodology has been adopted by all units. Involvement and ownership from the Weetabix Engineering team has been transformational as we have seen the reliability of our factories improve”
To support Weetabix 53North developed a four-phase asset care development strategy. Phase one is designed to establish a starting point by carrying out a plant reliability study and critically appraise the plant. Phase two set up a hybrid CBM program that would be mostly carried out by Weetabix technicians. Phase three built the new PM and lubrication schedules along with Technician training sessions. Phase four focused on performance monitoring and continuous improvement. The implementation of this strategy has supported Weetabix to increase MTBF by 150%.
Comments are closed.