1. The manufacturing process for soft drinks involves carefully delivering, washing, mixing, blending, filling, labeling, inspecting, packaging, and distributing the raw ingredients which include high fructose corn syrup, sugar, artificial colorings, acids, and flavors. 2. Quality control is a high priority, with strict standards for water quality and regular microbiological testing. All ingredients, equipment, and facilities are carefully inspected, cleaned, and sanitized. 3. The company has installed new automated warehouse equipment to reduce costs, including storage and retrieval machines, conveyors, robotic vehicles, and packaging machines, allowing them to use 30% less space.

2. Raw Materials
Manufacturing process
Quality Control
Process Improvement Initiatives

3. Main Ingredients: High fructose corn syrup, Sugar, Artificial
Colourings, Phosphoric Acid, Citric Acid, Natural Flavours
and Caffeine
Raw Materials

5. 1. Ingredient Delivery: Flavour
concentrates are shipped
from special manufacturing
plants. Sweeteners are
transported in special tanker
trucks. All ingredients and food
products are stored in clean areas
and refrigerated. The bottles and
cans are manufactured
elsewhere, shipped to plants
wrapped and sealed for
protection. Labels, cartons, caps,
CO2 used to carbonate cola and
other supplies are produced by
other companies. Everything is
subject to careful inspection on
arrival
2. Washing and Rinsing: After
the ingredients have
been delivered, all of them are
washed thoroughly and cleaned
3. Mixing and Blending: Flavour
concentrate is carefully combined
with sweeteners and other
ingredients in large stainless steel
mixing tanks

6. 4. Coding: Once on the belt cans
are part of controlled environment
that keeps them sanitary and helps
ensure quality throughout the filling
process. They travel rapidly through a
printer that applies a production code
to each can. Then
they're automatically turned upside
down, and rinsed with filtered water
before proceeding directly to the filler
5. Filling: As the now-rinsed cans reach
the filler, they're reinverted,
immediately filled and the lid is
applied at an average speed of 1,200
cans per minute. The filler is where the
syrups from the mixing tanks are
combined with the purified water. The
liquid is then carbonated. This
carbonation process gives soft drinks
the special sparkle fizzy bubbles that
adds to their quality of refreshment
6. Labelling: All cans and bottles are
imprinted with a freshness date, which
is a date code that tells you your soft
drink is fresh. A final quality check
ensures that the package is properly
filled, sealed and labelled

7. 7. Inspection: Quality control audits performed by specially trained technicians and
highest possible quality standards are maintained. Cleanliness is also vital, so all internal
and external surfaces are sanitized
8. Packaging: As products leave the manufacturing line, they're combined into a variety
of packages six- or 12-packs, 24- or 30-can cases or cases of individual two-ltr bottles
9. Warehousing and Delivery: The finished packages are stacked and moved to temporary
holding areas or to a central warehouse for shipping . Large trucks used to cater to country
based consumers . To make sure there's always enough Cola for everyone who wants one,
our trucks are on the road every single day

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9. Soft drink manufacturer adhere to strict water quality standards for
allowable dissolved solids, alkalinity, chlorides, sulfates, iron, and
aluminum. Not only is it in the interest of public health, but clean water
also facilitates the production process and maintains consistency in flavor,
color, and body. Microbiological and other testing occur regularly.

10. Company has Installed New Warehouse Automation Equipment to Reduce Costs
In a move to reduce waste and warehousing costs under its Six Sigma plan, the
Beverages Co. has installed an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS)
and warehouse control system at its plant in Tampa, Fla., USA.
According to them the new equipment includes two AS/RS storage and retrieval
machines, a pallet conveyor system, five robotic vehicles, a pallet-squaring
station, and packaging machines to apply shrink wrap and labeling. The new
equipment uses a 30 percent smaller footprint than a conventional beverage
processing facility