Case Study: Coca-Cola achieves alarm logging and reporting automation with Cogent DataHub

State-of-the-art Coca-Cola plant uses DataHub scripts to integrate alarm data and reports

Coca-Cola’s Ballina Beverages bottling plant in Ireland needed a better way to capture alarm data and produce end-of-shift reports across its highly automated manufacturing environment. The team wanted to combine live alarm signals from Allen-Bradley equipment with corresponding alarm descriptions and create a reliable log for tracking and archiving.

Cogent DataHub was used to connect to Rockwell Automation’s RSLinx OPC server and, via scripts, pull in alarm condition strings from a text file, write them with time/date/code details to log files, and generate end-of-shift reports. The solution was implemented in just a few hours, met a tight deadline, and has continued running reliably every day, giving the Odenberg/Tricon team a flexible and robust data-integration tool.

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