Ash Grove Cement
Ash Grove Cement Company is a cement manufacturer based in Overland Park, Kansas. It is the sixth largest cement manufacturer in North America, and was the largest US-owned cement company until it was acquired in 2018 by CRH plc, a global building materials business headquartered in Ireland.
The company was established in 1882 at Ash Grove, Missouri, as the Ash Grove White Lime Association. It commenced cement manufacture in 1908, with a plant at Chanute, Kansas. It now has an annual cement manufacturing capacity of nearly 9 million tons,
Goals
- Automate maintenance data collection at each facility for a well-defined enterprise asset management process to support equipment performance reliability
Challenges
- Mejorar el equilibrio de disponibilidad y utilización de los activos de producción y desarrollar una solución estandarizada para cada una de sus nueve infraestructuras de producción separadas, manteniendo al mismo tiempo la producción.
Solutions
- AVEVA™ PI System
Results
- A $2 million first year inventory reduction.
- Improved ability to manage inventory, as many as 8,000 items at each plant, maintaining between $2 million to $12 million in inventory.
- Compliance with the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation called the Portland Cement Maximum Achievable Control Technology (PC MACT)
- Minimizes the potential loss of $3,000 per hour for every hour the kiln is offline.
“By closely monitoring and managing what we use, reorder activities, and parts and materials pricing, we have reduced inventory by at least $2 million in the last few years. This is a significant contribution to keeping our prices competitive in the marketplace.”
Mike Ralls, Plant Systems Administrator
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