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This brief exercise reviews a process automation project at the CAPS Holding pharmaceutical plant in Harare.
CAPS is a holding company producing and distributing industrial and medical drugs in Zimbabwe. It is 54% government owned. At the top of the company is the Managing Director of CAPS Holdings. The CAPS drugs production wing is headed by a General Manager who supervises a number of divisional managers. The plant is located in the medical drugs division and is directly controlled by the medical drugs production manager. The person directly in charge of the plant is the penicillin plant manager. The maintenance of the plant is done by the workshops division.
The CAPS Holdings project involved the switch in 1983 from a manual penicillin vial filling and packaging process to an automatic one.