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St James’s Gate Brewery ensures Diageo World Class Status through AMIS
Dublin – St James’s Gate Brewery, Diageo Ireland’s production centre for Guinness and one of Dublin’s most famous landmarks, has become the first Irish manufacturing plant, and the first brewery worldwide to achieve AMIS world class Operational Excellence status.
With a focus on delivering outstanding business performance, Diageo embarked on this programme over 3 years ago with the goal of achieving World Class status within 4 years. The programme focused on continuous improvement to deliver best practice asset care and enhanced plant performance across the Brewing and Kegging departments in relation to quality, service, health & safety, environmental performance and cost management.
In 2004, the team at St James’s Gate, as part of their constant quest for business improvement, asked management consultancy MCP to perform its AMIS Benchmarking audit and help deliver the AMIS Improvement programme. Initial activities included the development of a cohesive Asset Care Strategy with senior management sponsorship and the establishment of processes to deliver plant reliability more effectively.
Guinness was first brewed at St James’s Gate almost 250 years ago and today the brewery produces the equivalent of almost 1 billion pints of Guinness a year for markets around the world. In the last couple of decades, significant investment and operational improvement has transformed the Guinness Brewery into a world-class facility. Proving that age is no barrier to success, the AMIS world class status achievement has been delivered by a change programme in parallel to many other achievements. (Less than 4% of the 4,000 participating companies around the world have achieved world-class AMIS status.) In a busy period for St James’s Gate in the run-up to Christmas, the Brewery collected no fewer than six external awards – accreditation to two new management system standards in Energy Management (IS393) and Food Safety (ISO22000), winning three national awards in Safety (National Irish Safety Organisation), Environmental Award (Chambers Ireland Presidents Award), Energy Management Award (Sustainable Energy Ireland) as well as achieving AMIS world class status.
Guy Dumbrell, the Site Operations Manager for St James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin commented on this recent success: “2007 has been a particularly successful year for us at St James’s Gate. It is very pleasing to have received external recognition for our hard work and success in these six areas and to now have been benchmarked as a world-leading operation. For these awards to come at the same time is unprecedented and reflects the involvement and engagement of all of our people on the St James’s Gate site towards achieving our goal. We are very proud of the many achievements that have been recognised by all of these awards. ”
Starting as a local initiative at St James’s Gate, the AMIS programme is
now being rolled out across other Diageo Global Supply production sites around the world.