Craft beer process solution

Craft beer solution, increase efficiency and production

The main challenge in a cooking house is to produce beer with the highest quality and meet client’s expectations. There are several challenges in order to have a productive and profitable process that complies with quality and at the same time lowers costs and production time. To build a better brewery, a flexible system is required that allows the process visualization.

ECN Automation as a Rockwell Automation Solution Partner has the experience and knowledge of this process needed for the implementation of Factory Talk Craft Brew, an automation solution that allows improving the efficiency of your plant easy to use, at a competitive price that facilitates process traceability and promotes its repeatability.

Benefits

Flexible control and designed to automate any plant with minimal time and cost
Recipe chance implementation from HMI
Scalable solution that can be used from small cooking houses up to bigger processes
Allows process standardization by offering libraries for HMI and PLC
Tool for consulting reports that lets you visualize batch process operations
Manual, semiautomatic and automatic modes

Success story

Craft beer

Objective::

Control system migration with Siemens S5 platform from the production house, and integrate a renewed control system from Rockwell Automation with a ControlLogix L7 processor, the solution is based on integrating a new controller into the CC1 panel with the capacity to stand current field signals, to allocate the new control system it is considered to reuse the current control board.

Regarding visualization it is proposed to install a workstation with 2 32” screens for overview process visualization and the second one to be able to observe and control the process thoroughly.

SCOPE:

Migrate Siemens S5 control system through Rockwell Automation platform
Migrate control logic to Studio 5000 with PlantPax structure
Migrate button controlled graphic console to a 2 32” screens digital visualization system
Rockwell Automation control equipment supply
Disassembly of obsolete current control equipment Siemens S5
Supply Rockwell Automation Software Factory Talk View
Supply of computer for the engineering station and workstation
PLC and HMI programming
Control devices configuration
Engineering modifications
Network architecture and diagrams
Start up and monitoring of the system
Training and maintenance
Post-launching support

BENEFITS:

20% production increase of the continuous batch process
Complete day production programming reducing time between lots significantly
Wide versatility in recipe programming
Product quality increase due to exact recipe repeatability
Production traceability
Minimal intervention by the staff in production continuity allowing concentration in supervision
Significant savings due to reduction in waste and operators time
Cost reduction associated to obsolete equipment spare parts
Time-out reduction