Pepsi Bottling Ventures of Idaho - Wonderware

Nampa, Idaho – In the consumer marketplace,constantly changing tastes drive innovation. Thisprinciple plays out – literally – in the beveragebusiness, where offering a multitude of soft drinkchoices is a mainstay of growth and success.Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) manufactures anddistributes more than 100 different flavors andbrands. In 2009, Beverage Industry magazinenamed PBV its Bottler of the Year. The companyhas become the third largest manufacturer anddistributor of Pepsi-Cola products in NorthAmerica, operating 27 bottling and distributionfacilities in six states.In Idaho, PBV runs a state-of-the-art manufacturingand sales distribution plant in Nampa as well asthree other distribution centers throughout thestate. And even as a new member of the PBV family,joining in early 2009, this division has contributedto the company’s award-winning operations withimpressive performance and results.these clipboard notes sometimes led to inconsistentdecision making and an inability to track trendsaccurately over time.But PBV didn’t accept this situation for long. Theyknew that better solutions were available. Theirvision included a performance management anddowntime tracking system that would connect allof the equipment, and that would also help themquantify return on investment and justify futureplant upgrades.Wonderware Certified Systems Integrator ApexManufacturing Solutions worked with WonderwarePacWest to assist PVB in evaluating the possibilities.It became clear that Wonderware software wasthe preferred solution when Apex Senior ProjectManager Erik Phillips recommended it, and ChrisBacon, PBV Production Manager, confirmed priorpositive experiences with the Wonderware solution.The solution – featuring the Wonderware SystemPlatform, Wonderware Performance software,Wonderware InTouch HMI, WonderwareActiveFactory and Historian software – wasinstalled in September 2008, and commissioned andvalidated just one month later.Concentrating on ChangeoversIntegrating the Present with the FutureThe Nampa facility was built in 2005 and wasequipped with a combination of new and legacymachinery. Blending these assets proved possible,but issues of waste and downtime were apparent.Additionally, a homegrown data collection systemthat had been in place for the legacy assets didnot take full advantage of the capabilities of thenew equipment. Operators tracked downtime andrecorded it manually during their shifts. Relying onWith such a wide variety of products, makingsmooth switches between formulations is centralto the plant’s productivity. Before the Wonderwaresoftware solution was installed, engineers estimatedthat changeovers took 60 minutes. With the newsystem in place, the data showed actual time toswitch between flavors averaged 90 minutes.Realizing that this degree of downtime was putting adamper on profitability, PBV used the Wonderwaresoftware to identify the chief constraints and theirroot causes. Armed with this data, they determinedthat the most critical bottleneck was in the fillerprocess. Correcting this issue improved changeoversby up to 45 minutes and resulted in additionalsavings in raw materials and packaging. Efficiency onthe filler line increased by 10%.