ABSTRACT
The students industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) is a skill impacting program designed to expose and prepare students of universities and other tertiary institutions for the industrial work situation that may be encountered after school. My SIWES program was undertaken at Nigeria Bottling Company limited, Asejire plant, Ibadan; a company that deals with the manufacturing of non-alcoholic beverage products such as Coca-Cola, limca, Fanta orange etc. The company has various sections such as; production section, quality assurance section and supply chain section. I had the opportunity to work in the quality assurance section and production line. The quality assurance section consists of quality assurance main laboratory, water treatment plant, syrup room, microbiologist laboratory and effluent treatment plant. The quality assurance main laboratory is where most quality control analyses are being carried out and they include beverage brix analysis, carbonation analysis, dissolved oxygen test and so on. Each section has different analyses carried out and they are well explained in this report. Finally, I conclude that SIWES program has made me to acquire more practical knowledge and gave me an insight to the theoretical works earlier done in school. I recommend that students should be paid stipends to make them enjoy the training and school supervisors should be visiting students at their place of attachments from time to time to make them concentrate more on it.
Title pages
Title page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Table of content vii
List of Figures viii
List of Plates ix
List of Tables xi
Abstract xii
CHAPTER ONE: General Introduction to Student’s Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES).
Introduction to SIWES program
1.1 scope and aims of SIWES and objective of SIWES report 1
1.1.1 Scope 1
1.1.2 Aims 2
1.1.3 Objectives of SIWES report 3
CHAPTER TWO: Brief history of Nigeria Bottling Company and her production processes
Brief history of Nigeria Bottling Company 4
2.1 Brief history of Nigeria Bottling Company Asejire plant 5
2.2 Sections and their function in Nigeria Bottling Company Asejire plant 7
2.3 Nigeria Bottling Company products and marketing 10
2.4 Materials used in beverages production in Nigeria Bottling Company 11
2.5 General safety precautions in the plant 13
CHAPTER THREE: Quality Assurance and Production Line
Quality Assurance department 16
3.1 Water treatment plant 16
3.1.1 Water treatment process 17
3.1.2 Chemical analysis carried out in water treatment plant 22
3.2 Quality Assurance Main Laboratory 31
3.2.1 Quality assurance operations 31
3.2.2 Analysis performed on finished beverages 32
3.3 Syrup room 43
3.3.1 Preparation of simple syrup 44
3.3.2 Preparation of final syrup 45
3.4 Effluent treatment plant (ETP) 46
3.4.1 Effluent treatment process 46
3.4.2 Equipments used in the effluent treatment plant 47
3.4.3 Chemical analysis on effluent water 51
3.5 Microbiology laboratory 54
3.5.1 Equipment used in the microbiology laboratory 54
3.5.2 Agar applications in beverage analysis 56
3.5.3 Methods of applying beverages on agar plates 58
3.5.4 Microbial analysis in beverage industry 59
3.6 Production section 61
3.6.1 Blending and Carbonation 62
3.6.2 Returnable glass bottles preparation 63
3.6.3 Mixing chamber 64
3.6.4 Washing machine 65
3.6.5 Bottle inspection point 66
3.6.6 Filling room 67
3.6.7 Cleaning and sanitation 68
3.6.7.1 Sanitation operations during production period 68
CHAPTER 4: Conclusion and Recommendation
4.1 Conclusion 73
4.2 Recommendation 73
References 75
