Case Study: Amalgamated Beverage Industries achieves improved packaging line performance and accurate real-time downtime reporting with AVEVA (Wonderware)

South African Breweries’ Soft Drink Division Improves Packaging Line Performance with Wonderware

Amalgamated Beverage Industries, a division of South African Breweries (SAB), faced the challenge of rapidly commissioning a new soft-drink packaging line to meet peak summer demand while improving machine performance tracking, electronic data capture and integration with existing SAP processes. To conform to PackML/OMAC standards and replace manual downtime logs, Amalgamated deployed AVEVA (Wonderware) automation software, including Wonderware MES Performance, Wonderware System Platform, Wonderware InTouch HMI and Wonderware Historian.

AVEVA implemented a real-time MES and HMI solution that collects KPIs, enforces PackML standards and feeds historical data into management reports. As a result, Amalgamated gained accurate, real-time downtime reporting (so precise that the machine OEM uses those reports for troubleshooting), reliable reject and crate estimates, elimination of manual logging and faster, data-driven commissioning and line improvements—delivering measurable efficiency gains across the packaging line.

Amalgamated Beverage Industries

John Coetzee

SAB Business Systems Manager