Denis du Buisson, Wonderware South Africa

Keeping Tabs on Coca-Cola Production

Given the volume of product flowing out of Coca-Cola Canners Wadeville plant in South Africa, manual labeling of shrink-wrapped pallets of finished cans was an increasing problem. As the fourth-largest canning plant in the world with output of 24 million cases annually, the sheer scale of the operation demanded an automated system that could tighten control and traceability.