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OFS, an Australian craft brewing software specialist \u2013 is helping Ninkasi Brewery, an Oregon-based company, capitalise on the demand for new products and co-packing contracts by focusing on data to streamline packaging operations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Australian manufacturing performance software company, OFS, has signed a deal with Oregon-based craft brewer Ninkasi Brewing Company, removing manual processes for its manufacturing team and helping it to increase on-time-in-full (OTIF) orders from 40% to 94% as the brewery expands its product portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Founded in 2005 and famous for its Total DominationIPA, Ninkasi makes approximately 150,000 barrels of beer every year. The craft brewery has also recently expanded its operations to contract out its production lines to budding brewers and producers of canned cocktails, hard seltzers and other popular drink lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new production model led Ninkasi to rethink its approach to data capture and efficiency improvement initiatives and seek a provider that could help it reduce downtime, speed up product changeovers and improve its production scheduling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen 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,\u201d said Daniel Sharp, Director of Brewing Process Development, Ninkasi. \u201cWe were intrigued by the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) standard and carefully evaluated providers that could help us understand how we measured up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ninkasi deployed OFS\u2019 line performance software system, OFS-X, on its packaging line to provide accurate, real-time OEE data and detailed insights into the length of production, length of changeover, how well lines were performing and how different shifts and crews were performing. This gave the brewery the data it needed to work out best practices and vastly improve its operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur team on the floor compared all the systems available to us \u2013 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,\u201d added Sharp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBefore OFS, we often had three or four changes to our production schedule a day \u2013 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 \u2013 making great beer. Now, we\u2019re down to about five schedule changes per week. We\u2019re using data to assign uptime and run rates for different packages on a crew-by-crew basis, leading to new best practices being discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeer has a great seasonality to it too,\u201d said Sharp. \u201cThe data is easy to pull and keeps us ahead of the game when it comes to ramping up or ramping down. We\u2019re prepared for what\u2019s in front of us now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Data playing a greater role in drink production<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sharp believes this kind of technology will become a no-brainer for breweries once they reach a certain production threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen brewers get to the stage of needing a rotary filler, you often see production go from 50 cans\/bottles per minute, to 250,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you miss even a minute, that\u2019s a lot of beer you haven\u2019t made. Data and the technology OFS provides will be increasingly important to helping brewers get to that next stage and make beer as efficiently and sustainably as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n James Magee, CEO, OFS, said Ninkasi is a brewery looking out for its people on the manufacturing floor and other breweries trying to make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe craft beer industry \u2013 particularly in brewing strongholds like Oregon \u2013 is incredibly community-driven,\u201d Magee said. \u201cNinkasi is sharing its expertise, experience and data-driven production techniques with other craft brewers, helping the sector to diversify and make more beverages in less time, with less waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to be a partner to Ninkasi\u2019s Digital Transformation and particularly for helping them better utilise their team to create better, smoother days on the production line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OFS, an Australian craft brewing software specialist \u2013 is helping Ninkasi Brewery, an Oregon-based company, capitalise on the demand for new products and co-packing contracts by focusing on data to streamline packaging operations. 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