MAINTENANCE & AUDIT SERVICES

Are you running at full capacity and require technical assistance and brewery maintenance support?
Brewery Maintenance and Brewery Audits ensure continous production, while increasing your efficiency and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
Our comprehensive pool of multidisciplinary brewery consultants has enabled AMS to cooperate successfully in more than 30 countries with clients in the beverage industry.

AMS TECHNICAL AUDIT

Whatever you need, we assign the right brewery consultants to your production site, carefully analysing operations, reviewing production reports, monitoring machines, capturing technical issues and collecting all findings during interviews with operators and maintenance team onsite.
All data are subsequently processed and summarized within the AMS AUDIT REPORT providing clear maintenance instructions, improvement areas, and project proposals.

AMS PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE

The AMS AUDIT REPORT is the basis for procurement and maintenance. Our support team prepares comprehensive machinery, equipment and spare part proposals which could be sourced via AMS or suitable suppliers. Applicable OEM maintenance procedures will be always considered.
Once proposed machinery, equipment and spare parts are on site, AMS assigns brewery specialists to implement all measures from the audit report. AMS beverage specialists work closely with your operators and maintenance team to ensure full know-how transfer. Our target is to enable your personnel to become self-sufficient in the medium term.
We propose to conduct the AMS AUDIT six months prior to end of peak season before peak season. The AMS PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE TEAM would be scheduled thereafter during low season.

AMS RAW MATERIAL AUDIT

AMS brewery consultants conduct in-depth technical audit of
mechanical conveyors:
• elevators, screw conveyors, chain conveyors, tubular chain conveyors
cleaning machines:
• screens, drum screens, destoners, air classifiers, magnet units
dedusting:
• filter housings, point-filters, push-in-filters
silos:
• profile walls silos, round silos, textile silos, grist bins, batch hoppers
silo accessories:
• outlet slides, power slides, level indicators, temperature measuring devices, discharge devises, dosing screws, vibration discharge, rotary valves
weighing:
• bulk scales, flow scales, load cells
grinding and crushing plants:
• 2-roller mills, 4-roller mills, 6-roller mills, malt humidification units, hammer mills, lump breakers
pipe components:
• pipes for product run, pipes for dedusting, powder coated, galvanized or stainless steel

AMS PRODUCTION AUDIT

AMS brewery consultants conduct in-depth production audit of mash mixer, cereal cooker, lauter tun, mash filter, kettle, whirlpool, wort cooler, hot and cold brewing tanks, trub handling, spent grains handling, heat recovery systems, wort stripping, pumps, piping systems, valves, instrumentation and controls, yeast management, yeast propagation, fermentation and maturation tanks, filtration, bright beer tanks, carbonization, high-gravity blending, CIP systems

AMS PACKAGING AUDIT

Whether RGB, CAN, PET or KEG line, the AMS performance test at the filler allows an identification of critical issues impacting the line performance and operation of the plant in general.
AMS brewery consultants conduct in-depth packaging audit of single-unit conveyors (RGB, CAN, PET) or container conveyors (crates, cartons, trays), depalletizer, decrater, crate rinser, crate washer, bottle washer, empty and full bottle inspector, filler, crowner, crown-cork feeder, tunnel or flash pasteurizer, labeller, coder, crater, palletizer, gravity rinser, packer

OPERATIONS SUPPORT

AMS acts as your extended work-bench for your supply-chain department. We help to procure, package, and transport the right materials just in time.
During peak seasons, only another shift may satisfy your demand? You require a specialized technician on ground for a limited period? Or you want to further educate and train your own personnel?

AMS RAW MATERIAL SERVICES

In procurement size matters, especially in procuring raw materials. AMS bundles requirements of several customers to benefit from economies of scale. We negotiate yearly contracts for your main raw materials, as prices in this sector are extremely unsteady and vary from year to year, always depending on the crop yield.

AMS SPARE PARTS SERVICES

With most equipment manufacturers, we cooperate for many years. Our resale-rebates and optimization of packaging and freight charges ensure competitive pricing. AMS clients enjoy only one single point of contact for all requests, complaints, and support calls.

AMS PERSONNEL AND TRAINING SERVICES

Personal shortages always come at the wrong time. Vacation, sick-leave, maternity leave, peak season, training, or simply the need for specialized know-how. Whatever it is, we will assign appropriate experts on short notice for an interims periods.
Educating your technical personnel for your long-term success. A wide range of training programs is available including overseas training in Germany (English language), class-room trainings at your site or trainings-on-the-job. Brewmaster courses, technological classes, laboratory trainings, specific technical trainings for maintenance of valves, motors, pumps, and all other brewing equipment can be arranged.

AMS QUALITY ASSURANCE

AMS QA TEAM consists of specialists with in-depth process and production experience in the beverage industry. AMS collaborates closely with German technical universities, beverage research institutes and their training institutions. AMS QA TEAM focusses on your laboratory. Starting with a design and facilities check of your laboratory, AMS examines whether all recommended tests and parameters are in place, if the equipment is properly calibrated and if all test results are documented and distributed to the right person.
AMS QA TEAM recommends QA software for organized sample processing and for the recording, structuring and evaluation of robust analysis data.

AMS EPCM CONTRACTOR

Whether you are planning a greenfield project or a major upgrade of your existing plant, AMS PROJECT TEAM provides the technical foundation for your project success. AMS assumes the role as project implementation consultant for Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM). Our specialists work hand-in-hand with your team from kick-off until project commissioning.
The AMS approach structures each project in logical pieces. AMS actively manages the interfaces between all stakeholders to ensure smooth project implementation. A strict sequential project management methodology, basing each step and activity on predefined processes optimizes efficiency and transparency.

AMS EPC CONTRACTOR

You prefer 1 general contractor with 1 contract only? Your in-house resources are overwhelmed with daily activities? The time-to-market for your project is very ambitious? In all these cases, AMS assuming the role as General-EPC-Contractor for Engineering, Procurement and Construction may be just the right solution.
The integration of all projects works is implemented by one competent multidisciplinary team. The General Contractor approach assures systems reliability and the systems guarantee Implementation cost, risks and time-to-market are reduced.
The client can focus his resources on general monitoring and special contributions.

AMS PROJECT GUARANTEE

Whether you prefer AMS as General Contractor (EPC) or as Project Implementation Consultant (EPCM), our project guarantees always apply. All team partners have constant co-operation partners throughout the project. A comprehensive project information system for an effective technical and commercial project execution control. The continuity of the project management team to secure the highest quality standards and best economic results. A highly professional interdisciplinary project team for all sectors of project investments

PLANNING AND ENGINEERING

Greenfield, Brownfield, AMS ENGINEERING specialized in Anyfield.
Sales agents ever asking for more products? Expand your production capacities while minimizing effects on current operations, AMS ENGINEERING is leading from behind.
Headquarters setting new targets to optimize Key Performance Indicators. AMS ENGINEERING identifies technological and technical deficiencies and plans your route to success, if desired alongside with return-on-investment calculation and monitoring system.
Planning a new brewery or soft drink plant, AMS ENGINEERING is stand-by as your partner through the entire planning cycle starting from Master Planning, to Detailed Planning and finishing with Execution Planning.

AMS PLANNING CYCLE

1. AMS MASTER PLANNING

...translates the project idea into a roadmap for the implementation of a production facility, including future expansion options in line with sales projections...

2. AMS DETAILED PLANNING

...is based on the Master Plan. It is finalized with the tender documentation, now ready for circulation to shortlisted suppliers...

3. AMS EXECUTION PLANNING

...is based on the Detailed Engineering and the outcome of the tender. It is finalized with completion of as-built drawings as basis for installation...

SERVICE PROFILE EXPECTED BY OUR CLIENTS

AMS ENGINEERING comprehensively evaluates all project parameters and where necessary adapts design elements to local laws and regulation or multinational group requirements. During this stage AMS ENGINEERING works closely with AMS or client architects and civil engineers to synchronize process and machinery design with architectural design.

• Management of a multi-partner design cooperation as well as the integration of a multi-source machinery package.
• Knowledge of the markets combined with regional competence.
• Anticipation of technological changes and market developments.

STRENGTH OF AMS ENGINEERING

Project planning can become rather complex. Local laws, different partners, group requirements, civil contractors and a bunch of equipment and machinery manufacturers? Many interfaces but only one integrated automation approach throughout the plant? And everything on time, below budget but over client’s expectations?

• AMS ENGINEERING as sole planning and design partner for the whole project cycle.
• Professional independence from individual manufacturers or brands.
• Application of "state of the art" planning and design techniques and communication systems.
• A more economic and faster planning cycle.