Coors Brewing Shutdown
Event Year: | 2004 | Reliability: | Confirmed |
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Country: | United States | ||
Industry Type: | Food & Beverage | ||
Description: | A current employee with access to the bottling control system, inadvertently changed a timer for a maintenance device on a filler. Instead of squirting grease into the bearing every 20 minutes, it was set to once every 8 hours. Consequently, the bearings froze. The line that fills the bottles at 1,200 per minute stopped. |
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Impact: | Operations were shut-down resulting in $100,000 loss. |
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Action Description: | Rockwell Software helped Coors put security into their manufacturing system that was designed primarily for efficiency and reliability. |