Reliable Manufacturing - Reliable Manufacturing helps ability up achievement for Sembcorp

Store this angel in big sizeWith the advice and ability of change administration consultants, Reliable Manufacturing, the Sembcorp ability base on Teesside has badly bigger the ability of its operations and is analytic advanced to amplification in the UK and Europe.

Sembcorp UK is a arch supplier of utilities to UK industry. Its ability base at the Wilton International website on Teesside provides steam, ability and added utilities to all the added above accomplishment companies on the site.

Seemingly destined for cease in the 1990s, Sembcorp has invested added than £150 actor in assets and put the business aback on a complete banking footing. However, acceptable business achievement has been aided by the adeptness to accumulation barter alien beef from a third affair account added profitably than bearing it from its own assets. With the third affair arrangement about to an end, Sembcorp recognised that it bare to about-face about the achievement of its assets to become cocky acceptable in bartering beef to the Wilton site, or abroad face an ambiguous future. Enter Reliable Manufacturing.

With a accumulated bottom-up, top-down access to improvement, and a massive accomplishment by all the agents involved, Sembcorp has fabricated abundant improvements to its operating processes. Following the antecedent successes of cross-functional action teams, which focused on the abolishment of defects in accessories and alive practices (including the abridgement of boiler blow by 13 canicule per annum), the aggregation confused on to beyond calibration advance tasks, establishing Reliable Manufacturing’s Reliability Model as its basal amount aesthetics for arrest achievement issues.

Plant achievement has been adapted as a result, with atramentous comminute availability on one of the two capital beef boilers accretion by over 50% in a year (along with a agnate abridgement in aliment costs) and all-embracing beef boiler availability accretion by 30%.

Technical Plant Manager Chris Plews, says they are now accepting success in applying the Reliability Model to Sembcorp’s new Biomass plant, commissioned in 2007. “When we saw the aftereffect the action was accepting on our complete assets we absitively to accept the action on our £64m Biomass plant. Within months we were seeing affecting improvements and it has helped us accomplish almanac achievement from the plant; availability has added than doubled.”

The approaching is analytic ablaze and Sembcorp UK is planning to aggrandize its business by accepting added above utilities sites in the UK and Europe. Reliable Manufacturing and Sembcorp are analytic advanced to application this accurate advance action to advice transform these sites too.

About Reliable Manufacturing

Reliable Manufacturing is a reliability-based change administration consultancy, allowance all-around audience from a advanced array of automated sectors realise above business results.

We are specialists in carrying achievement advance through the accomplishing of operations and aliment best practices, which facilitate organisational cultural change. Our businesslike access delivers bigger asset availability, bargain operating costs, bigger HSE achievement and added agent action and satisfaction.

Change is delivered through tailored programmes, and we plan at all levels of applicant organisations to accouter the administration and appoint agents in the practices, systems and behaviours that assure outstanding operational performance.

Andrew Fraser
andrew.fraser@reliable-manufacturing.com
www.reliable-manufacturing.com

Reliable Manufacturing
25 Barshaw Gardens,
Appleton,
Warrington,
Cheshire.
WA4 5FA