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Pepsi-Cola Enhances Reliability of Machinery with Dyadem Software

Thursday 30. July 2009 - Dyadem, the market leader in Operational and Quality Risk Management solutions, today announced that Pepsi-Cola Venezuela C.A., a joint venture between Empresas Polar and Pepsico Inc, is using Dyadem software in its Venezuelan operations to improve reliability in the company’s beverage manufacturing machinery and to prevent failures in the development of its system processes. Pepsi-Cola Venezuela, C.A. ("Pepsi-Cola") has selected Dyadem’s FTA-Pro, a software solution that analyzes the potential for failure from the top down and identifies all the possible ways a failure can occur within a system. Empresas Polar is one of the country’s largest producers of both food and beverages.

Dyadem’s FTA-Pro software solution uses the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) methodology to determine the reliability of production equipment and can predict when and where a failure will occur. FTA-Pro facilitates compliance with safety and regulatory requirements, allowing companies to reduce design defects, product recalls and production downtime. The result is an increased ability to produce safe, reliable, high quality products. Dyadem’s FTA-Pro serves as an effective early warning system that allows a company to make proactive decisions when failures are predicted. This is an essential function for Pepsi-Cola due to the fact that it can take up to a year to import new machine parts to Venezuela. Dyadem’s FTA-Pro identifies the potential areas where a breakdown will occur, and gives Pepsi-Cola a warning to begin the ordering process for replacement parts.

With FTA-Pro serving as Pepsi-Cola’s reliability solution, the company has realized a user-friendly oversight system. Dyadem’s FTA-Pro is being used to improve Pepsi-Cola’s maintenance program and is helping the company personnel understand the contributing factors to a system failure while preventing future occurrences.

“Our machinery is the latest in technology so when a breakdown occurs it could take up to a year to get certain parts replaced,” said Daniel Boos, Quality Assurance Manager, Pepsi-Cola. “With Dyadem’s FTA-Pro we are now able to identify potential failures well in advance. This gives us time to improve the reliability of the machinery and it also helps us avoid the high costs and the wasted time associated with machinery breakdowns. Dyadem’s FTA-Pro has served as a reliable tool that is easy to use and that enriches our continuous improvement program.”

Prior to implementing Dyadem technology, Pepsi-Cola was relying on a manual assessment process that was both unreliable and time intensive. The implementation of FTA-Pro serves as a troubleshooting mechanism that can also determine the root cause of potential problems. Failures that would otherwise go unnoticed are now much more likely to be detected. In addition, implementing the FTA methodology can identify the underlying causes leading to the potential risks, measure the contributing factors, and ultimately prevent their recurrence. Since deploying Dyadem’s software solution, Pepsi-Cola is expected to increase productivity operating in a manner that is more proactive instead of reactive.

“Pepsi-Cola is a brand name worldwide, and an important contributor to the Venezuelan economy,” said Kevin North, President and CEO of Dyadem. “Not surprisingly, Pepsi-Cola Venezuela is using cutting-edge technologies to ensure that it meets the demands of its customers. Dyadem’s Quality Risk Management solutions give food and beverage companies the ability to operate their machinery based on known quality, reliability and performance data and to make proactive decisions before systems are compromised.”