Materials
The materials that are needed by a business will vary depending on what they’re manufacturing but the materials that Coca-Cola use in the process of production of their products is:
Waste
Coca Cola Enterprises Ltd take their corporate and environmental responsibilities very seriously: “We currently recycle/recover around 99.9% of our factory waste and 4 of our manufacturing sites are zero waste; Wakefield, Milton Keynes, Edmonton and Sidcup”.
As you can see Coca cola take the issue of waste very seriously. CCE (Coca Cola Enterprises) is committed to ‘recovering the equivalent of 100% of its packaging by 2020, reducing the impact of its packaging and using renewable, reusable and recyclable resources”. Part of this commitment is a commitment to send zero waste to landfill from their manufacturing operations. Additionally, CCE are constantly looking for new ways to recycle and reduce waste. For example, waste juice from Capri-Sun pouches has been sent for reuse as pig feed. In Milton Keynes, modified plastic concentrate drums are distributed to employees for garden water collection and have been re-used by a local rafting club to help construct river-rafts. Another area of waste that Coca Cola have been focused is wasted water. The Wakefield plant has gone through a major upgrade of their machinery in order to try and tackle the waste water problem.
The Wakefield plant is mains-fed from a Yorkshire Water surface WTP. The influent is stored in two 850m³ storage tanks before being pumped to four activated carbon tanks and then passing through an ion exchange unit which forms the facility’s organics scavenging system – organic content being a key parameter in product make-up water.
Whereas the previous plant achieved around 90% wastewater recovery – generating some 700m³/day of waste, the new system achieves significantly higher efficiency and has reduced the effluent to routinely less than 60 m³/day. This represents both major operational advantages and considerable cost savings over the year.
Plant and Machinery
Coca-Cola’s Wakefield facility is the largest soft drinks factory in Europe, covering an area of 41 acres and has 72,000m² of buildings. The warehouse has grown from a bulk storage facility housing only Wakefield-produced drinks, to a regional service centre for handling products from regions across the UK. It is now the largest of six bottling plants across the UK. Coca Cola Enterprise is a UK-based subsidiary of Coca-Cola Enterprises and has six manufacturing plants in the UK and distributes around 250 million cases of soft drinks every year. Additionally, high-tech machinery at Wakefield enables cans to be produced faster than the eye can see. The plant is capable of producing up to 4,000 330ml cans a minute and 3,280 bottles – ranging from 500ml to 3l – of soft drinks a minute across nine lines. The factory also boasts the fastest 2l bottle production line in the world. In total the facility has storage space for 25,000 pallets and approximately 250 lorries leave daily.
Equipment including ICT
CCE have some of the best in the world just as I’ve mentioned before about how the factory in Wakefield allows cans to be produced faster than the eye can see and also how the factory has the fastest 2l bottle production line in the world. But in terms of ICT, CCE use it to avoid delays and disruption of delivery schedules, the company has introduced change management and version control software for all industrial programmable devices at the manufacturing plant, which has also minimised production downtime. As for equipment the CCE Wakefield plant uses a range of programmable control devices, including 93 Siemens S5 PLCs, 11 Siemens S7 PLCs, 20 Allen Bradley (Rockwell Automation) Control Logix PLCs, 31 Allen Bradley SLC500 PLCs, and 26 universal devices (SCADA InTouch and others). Also, MAC Solutions installed its new-generation Siemens S7 (version 5.3) PLCs installed on the Mass AutoSave system. The 'scheduled compare' facility of this system allows for automatic schedule compare procedures. This can detect and identify changes in the program that may have been unknown or unauthorised, protecting the company's processes, people and equipment.
Planned maintenance and refurbishment
At Coca Cola all of their buildings, plant and machinery require updating and to be maintained regularly. This means that all of the facilities, equipment and machinery need to be checked if they're safe and functioning well every 24 hours and adjustments have to be made if necessary, this also includes updating the equipment and machineries for example; making them more environmentally friendly by using more energy resourceful materials such as Eco friendly light bulbs and saving packaging materials also recycling any that do get left over. For example at Coca Cola's office departments to refurbish their facilities their would aim to maintain organisation but might consider re-decorating such as re-painting the rooms a different colour, re-furbishing with new tables and chairs etc. If this maintenance and refurbishment does not happen the machines could stop functioning correctly and this could stop Coca Cola's product production which would lead to a major loss of profit and customers.
Emergency provision
In all Coca Cola's work settings 'The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 demands for the organisation to set up policies for the 'in case of an emergency' within a certain Coca Cola building. This means that all of Coca Cola's buildings should have a drawn up policy and an evacuation training given to all of the employees as well as clear instructions of what action to take in case a fire or any other incident happens within the premisses; this also means that Coca Cola and it's departments employers are responsible for providing safety equipment such as fire alarms and extinguishers, fire escapes etc- to make sure all employees are still safe even if a fire might occur the building. The employees then are responsible to apply this act to Coca Cola customers and people who visit the building. This is important for Coca Cola because if they do have a case of emergency and they're not prepared people within the building may get hurt and this would promote Coca Cola in a negative way which means they could end up losing customers and profit.
Insurance
All of Coca Cola's building's that are owned or rented by the company should always have valid insurance. When Coca Cola own the building they arrange the insurance cover themselves, but if they rent the premises the building is usually covered by the landlord. The fee of the cover is usually paid monthly in exchange of protection to the Coca Cola's building in case anything occurs for example
- Natural disasters such as; floods, earthquakes, storms, fires etc. that damage the building or the building's facilities and stock within.
- Theft from inside the building
- Damaged equipment
- Vandalism
- Leaks: leaking gas pipes
- Collisions:vehicle collisions.
Security
CCE contract out their secutiy to JPB Contracting, a specialist Facilities Management and Civil Engineering company based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. JPB contracting are responsible for a number of different areas across the organisation including:
•Hygiene maintenance
•Building and repairs
•Safety and security of buildings and personnel
For example JPB Contracting is responsible for daily repair work across the Coca Cola site. Their in house team and trusted subcontractors carry out all levels of work as required by the facilities team at Coca Cola. JPB Contracting also undertakes visual checks across the site to ensure no repair work has been overlooked.
Coca cola also employ an complex video surveillance system at their Wakefield plant.
Benefits of this system:
•Prevent theft – Security cameras have been shown to discourage theft when prominently displayed, and in the event your factory is robbed, a modern surveillance camera will help you identify the thief and prosecute them.
•Quality control – Advances in digital camera technology have made quality control through video surveillance possible. Video surveillance cameras can help you make your quality control process faster and more efficient.
•Workplace safety – Surveillance cameras can be placed near dangerous machinery to monitor automated processes safely, or to protect employees from harm. This has been a popular use for video surveillance cameras for years, and has grown more efficient as technology has advanced.