Case Study: Heineken achieves lower costs and higher plant availability with CompuCal Calibration Solutions

Performance contract provides cost reduction and quality improvement

Heineken Netherlands, a production branch of the global brewer, faced a challenge in managing its vast array of process instrumentation. With internal expertise declining and a strategic decision to focus on core business, they needed to outsource the installed base management of approximately 3,500 instruments to guarantee maximum product integrity and installation availability while reducing costs. They partnered with vendor CompuCal Calibration Solutions (Endress+Hauser) for a performance contract.

The solution from CompuCal Calibration Solutions involved consolidating management systems, optimizing calibration intervals, and taking over instrument stock. The implementation led to significant quality improvements and a 15% reduction in planned maintenance from 2005 to 2007, resulting in initial savings of 180,000 euros. This success led to the contract being expanded to a second brewery, allowing Heineken to concentrate on its core brewing operations with improved cost control and plant availability.

Heineken

Ron Verweij

Maintenance Engineer