Coca-cola Bottling reveals OEE up two per cent on shopfloor analytics

Steve Westphal, executive vice president, operations and systems, at Coca-Cola Bottling Co Consolidated, says that this improvement has been measured within the first five months of going live at its Roanoke, Virginia, plant. He credits CDC Software's change management methodology with some of the glory, making the point that all the company's bottling plants are being faced with increased manufacturing complexity – with numerous SKUs and related changeovers. "We especially like how CDC Factory drives action on the manufacturing floor where our employees take ownership of performance and improvement," comments Westphal. "With CDC Factory's capabilities of real-time plant intelligence, coupled with a change programme embedded in the deployment activities, I'm delighted we have delivered a 2% efficiency improvement in five months." Westphal says that this MOM (manufacturing operations management) system – which combines shopfloor data capture, quality management, packaged OEE metrics, manufacturing analytics and executive scorecards – will now be installed at its other four production facilities across North America.