India, Sept. 27 -- SLMG Beverages, a major Coca-Cola bottler in India, has instituted a significant digital transformation across its entire business. Improvements to operation efficiency utilizing SCADA-enabled process control, AI-enabled inspections, cloud ERP and TenX's SaaS for intelligence for real-time business intelligence have reduced defect levels across SLMG's operations to below 0.1%, while also facilitating a 95% reduction in safety incidents, and ramping production to 33,000 bottles/minute. In addition to efficiency, these various structures have led to a more consistent product, faster decisions and more customer trust.

The following discussion with Joint Managing Director Paritosh Ladhani unveiled the mindset around techno...