A beverage can plant being constructed in Florida will be the world’s first in the industry to use a predictive-analytics system when commercial operation starts later this year. The $120 million project at Winter Haven managed by Roeslein & Associates is for Florida Can Manufacturing – which owns Caribbean Can in Puerto Rico – and…

Predictive-analytics reaches the canmaking industry
Being able to predict when equipment on canmaking lines is likely to fail with better precision is expected to help a new beverage can plant to be more competitive. Rick Pendrous reports