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Pepsi bottler shares secrets of OEE, Six Sigma, Lean

Pepsi Bottling Ventures boosts uptime, improves OEE scores 21 points, adds more than an hour to daily productivity and covers automation costs in one year in Nampa, Idaho, the project's leader told attendees learned in a packaging session at The Automation Conference.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures plant floor in Nampa, Idaho.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures plant floor in Nampa, Idaho.

Chris Bacon, production manager with Raleigh, Pepsi Bottling Ventures in Nampa, Idaho, achieved dramatic results by applying overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improvements across both legacy and new equipment using a combination of Lean & Six Sigma principles. He shared some of the secrets of his success in a packaging session of the The Automation Conference.

The packaging track session, "Combining Lean/Six Sigma with Automation for OEE improvements," showed how universal quality and management tools can be made to serve specific needs. On its face, OEE provides an aggregate index of availability, performance rates and quality to provide uptime and productivity comparisons. Six Sigma uses statistical tools to eliminate the causes of defects and variability. And Lean Manufacturing has come to be known as something of a superset of management tools and processes by which companies root-out waste in all its forms.

Bacon took the audience through challenges and solutions that improved performance, increased line availability, and attained better final-quality results.

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