AB InBev is the world's largest brewer — and beyond beer, it manufactures cans, glass bottles, labels, and bottle caps. At their Brazilian caps plant, the production volume is so high that every lost minute means thousands of units not reaching the bottling plants.
Despite a strong data culture across the company, downtime tracking was manual, unreliable, and always too late to act on.
Implementing livemes in the stamping area gave the team accurate, real-time visibility into machine availability. By understanding and attacking the root causes of downtime, it was reduced by 20% — a result so positive that drove the expansion of livemes across that facility and further to other plants.