CASE-057 · Engineering case

Packaging Line Performance and Quality Risk Assessment

Converted packaging downtime and quality issues into a structured failure-mode and risk-prioritization system.

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Why the Work Mattered

Purpose and Operating Need

Packaging reliability required understanding how station-level failure modes translated into QA holds, rework, downtime, production bottlenecks, and customer impact.

Engineering Approach

Engineering Approach

Evaluated PET and glass lines; mapped hopper issues, filler CIP failures, capper over-torque, labeler skew, drop packer crashes, capper E-stop faults, conveyor motor trips, nitrogen system failures, operator-induced failures, and mechanical faults; built corrective-action tracking, operator/mechanical training, and bottleneck/failure-trend visualization.

Outcome & Engineering Context

Outcome and Context

Improved quality-risk visibility and corrective-action prioritization.

Workstream Results & Impact

Workstream Portfolio Rollup

28,095,000 USD

Production and Packaging Modernization

Recorded workstream portfolio reference. This is the workstream-level value and is not a project expenditure or a new total of reassigned projects.

Measures & Operating Detail

Engineering scope and design basis

Improved visibility into product-hold risk, downtime drivers, operator error patterns, equipment faults, quality risks, and SKU compatibility constraints.

Improved packaging-line risk visibility, measured by product-hold and downtime risk matrices, function-to-failure charts, and SKU compatibility validation, by mapping failure modes across filler, capper, labeler, packer, conveyors, nitrogen systems, operators, QA, and maintenance.

Product-hold risk matrix; downtime-risk matrix; SKU compatibility validation; function-to-failure charts; bottleneck and failure-trend visualization.

Actions, Methods & Controls

ACTIVITIES IN CONTEXT

Additional Technical Detail

Roles & contributions
  • Project Ownership

    Full lifecycle project ownership

    Engineering Work and Coordination

    Mapped PET/glass-line failure modes and QA/downtime risks, developed corrective-action tracking and training/visualization needs, and coordinated production, QA and maintenance inputs.

    Owned the full project lifecycle: capital planning and prioritization, need definition, feasibility and scope development, engineering and AFE justification, procurement and vendor coordination, construction sequencing and field oversight, commissioning, turnover, and post-startup support. Connected operating requirements with technical scope, funding decisions, execution readiness, and the needs of operations and maintenance.

  • Production, QA and Maintenance Teams

    Project Team Contribution

    Team Contribution

    Production, QA and maintenance contributed to failure-mode, corrective-action and training coordination.

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