Case Study: British American Tobacco achieves improved quality and reduced waste with Dassault Systèmes' Apriso

BAT Mexico Ignites Quality with Apriso

British American Tobacco’s Monterrey, Mexico plant — a high-volume facility producing over 26 billion cigarettes across 1,000+ SKUs — faced growing complexity from four disparate MES systems that could not meet new flexibility, standardization and quality-improvement requirements. To consolidate operations and enable global continuous improvement, British American Tobacco selected Dassault Systemes’ Apriso manufacturing operations management solution.

Dassault Systemes implemented Apriso across shop-floor processes (production, quality, maintenance and brand change workflows), unifying data and enabling real-time KPIs and SPC-driven quality control. The deployment (2009–2010) delivered measurable impact: overtime costs fell 20–50%, waste dropped up to 10%, fewer FTEs were needed to support local systems, faster access to OEE/AMO data improved root-cause analysis, and brand-change efficiency and overall quality control significantly increased.

British American Tobacco

Nydia Cavazos

SMD Cell Manager