Jamie Schild

Streamlining the flow of data to drive more informed decisions in real time.
Great data drives great decisions and great decisions transforms businesses!

While providing an initial overview of operations at Dru Bru, owner Dru noted “we struggle to effectively use our historical data we’ve been compiling for years.” He envisioned a day that they could use this data to improve brewday performance and consistency.

Teaming up with Dru and his wonderful team, A-Bay got to work with weekly meetings to align on their existing processes and procedures. Understanding how Dru Bru collected and utilized data along their brewing process was an… Show more

While providing an initial overview of operations at Dru Bru, owner Dru noted “we struggle to effectively use our historical data we’ve been compiling for years.” He envisioned a day that they could use this data to improve brewday performance and consistency.

Teaming up with Dru and his wonderful team, A-Bay got to work with weekly meetings to align on their existing processes and procedures. Understanding how Dru Bru collected and utilized data along their brewing process was an essential first step. A-Bay started building out tools that would enable Dru Bru to utilize historical data quickly and efficiently. The restructuring and combining multiple databases allowed the data to be more accessible.

Through this collaborative approach, A-Bay continues to develop customized tools for Dru Bru to better suit their needs. These tools include dashboards with overviews of brewday performance, toolkits for mash, boil, & yeast, exception reports, comparisons of batch specific data vs beer averages vs targets and exception reporting. All together, A-Bay has developed an automated system for data entry and utilization, building transparency up and down Dru Bru’s organization.

Brewday & Fermentation Data Real Time Uses
- Grain temperature vs historical mash temperature analysis to ensure the mash temperature on each batch is achieved.
- Current vs historical mash and pre-boil gravity analysis to ensure each batch finishes in spec.
- Brewhouse Efficiency and volume yield analysis to maximize grain to sugar output, and optimize yield resulting in significant raw material cost saving.
- Real time fermentation analysis including warnings if fermentation performance is outside of acceptable limits Show less

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - the City's Water Utility - reduce costs by >$100 million out of their current $1.2 billion annual operating budget while enhancing services for their customers and continuing to deliver environmental benefits
• Identify and implement improvement initiatives across DEP's entire operations from increasing productivity in operations and maintenance over improving asset management and reducing inventory to reducing energy and… Show more

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - the City's Water Utility - reduce costs by >$100 million out of their current $1.2 billion annual operating budget while enhancing services for their customers and continuing to deliver environmental benefits
• Identify and implement improvement initiatives across DEP's entire operations from increasing productivity in operations and maintenance over improving asset management and reducing inventory to reducing energy and chemicals consumption and improving procurement practices to reduce external spend Show less

Arm Global Solutions and A-Bay Engineers started working together in Sept '20 in the midst of a global pandemic. During this time, A-Bay worked closely with managerial staff to determine what ARM’s biggest pain points were and how A-Bay’s expertise could help ARM to reach their short and long term goals. ARM, which started in 1988, has developed into the largest returnable packaging business in North America, helping companies such as DuPont, Carrier & Klockner minimize their carbon… Show more

Arm Global Solutions and A-Bay Engineers started working together in Sept '20 in the midst of a global pandemic. During this time, A-Bay worked closely with managerial staff to determine what ARM’s biggest pain points were and how A-Bay’s expertise could help ARM to reach their short and long term goals. ARM, which started in 1988, has developed into the largest returnable packaging business in North America, helping companies such as DuPont, Carrier & Klockner minimize their carbon footprint. ARM’s focus on sustainability fits nicely with A-Bay’s vision to build a more resourceful and resilient tomorrow.

With A-Bays ability to develop business intelligence tools and streamline the flow of data within operations, there was an immediate opportunity to collaborate. “We no longer have layers of personnel tracking performance, we need these tools to enable our managers to quickly gain the insights they need from the data while wearing so many other hats too” noted Vice President Ron Auberger.

Transparency of performance across the organization and with key clients was lacking or suboptimal. Older excel based tools that utilized operational data had been sitting idle and speculation / guessing had started creeping in.

Working to show off ARM’s excellent performance for a key client, A-Bay developed intuitive, real-time, and customizable dashboards. Automated and streamlined systems were developed to reduce touchpoints and opportunity for errors, while reducing time required performing analysis.

“These tools give us a competitive advantage,” said ARM Vice President Ron Auberger. Improved transparency throughout the organization was realized. Facility managers are now able to have discussions with their operational staff about performance using real time data to build accountability.

Using these interactive dashboards, ARM took the initiative to provide innovative service to their clients, above and beyond what was required of them. Show less

When A-Bay started working with Over Yonder, the complex structure of electrical bills was prohibiting Over Yonder from optimizing their electrical costs. Over Yonder was a new brewery that didn’t have the ability to benchmark their performance and costs against others to see where they stood. Their utility costs were viewed as a necessary evil.

A-Bay worked closely with Over Yonder’s electrical provider, XCEL to build transparency of electrical usage and billing rates, $ per… Show more

When A-Bay started working with Over Yonder, the complex structure of electrical bills was prohibiting Over Yonder from optimizing their electrical costs. Over Yonder was a new brewery that didn’t have the ability to benchmark their performance and costs against others to see where they stood. Their utility costs were viewed as a necessary evil.

A-Bay worked closely with Over Yonder’s electrical provider, XCEL to build transparency of electrical usage and billing rates, $ per Kilowatt Hour. Analysis of Over Yonder’s electrical spend and their rate structure revealed an opportunity to reduce their energy billing rate by more than 20% monthly. A free energy audit was conducted by XCEL that highlighted measures that could reduce energy consumption by 5%+ as well.

A-Bay was able to move Over Yonder to a more appropriate electrical rate and reduce their cost of electricity from ~$0.15 / kwh to $0.12 / kwh. This reduction has saved Over Yonder 21% monthly on their electricity bill. Show less