Automated brewery software and solutions are designed to reduce the time you spend managing equipment and processes so you can focus on the art of crafting beer.
Keep Pace with Market Demands
Increase Capacity and Operational Efficiency Without Adding Costs
As a brewer your main focus is to produce high-quality beer to meet customer demand. There are many competing pressures to running a profitable, productive brewery. Consistent quality, improving yield, and reducing production time and costs are just a few of those pressures. To build a better brewery, you need flexible processes and better insights into your processes.
We understand the brewing industry and the challenges you face every day. Our focus on beer production optimization addresses every phase of your operation. That focus helps you address cost, quality, and flexibility to meet demand, from grain handling through waste treatment and packaging.
FactoryTalk Brew and FactoryTalk Craft Brew
Modular Brewery Solution Designed for the Needs of Large Volume Brewers
As a larger brewer, you are dedicated to quality and look for opportunities to drive efficiency. FactoryTalk® Brew™ solution is a modular brewery solution, designed to connect systems, and provide actionable information. This connectivity allows you to:
- Access real-time data on the brewing processes
- Compare performance across plants
- Manage energy consumption
- Scale production quickly
Modular Brew House Application Designed for Microbreweries and Brew Pubs
Your continued growth demands a more scalable operation to deliver consistent quality and flavor. FactoryTalk® Craft Brew solution is ideal for entry into automation with minimal instrumentation or engineering staff required.
The intuitive and customizable interface allows you to maintain an active role in the process. This flexible solution also helps increase yield and reduce production time.
Smart Brewing Solutions Provide Insight
Full Sail Brewing Taps Manufacturing Intelligence
Craft brewer upgraded to a fully-automated, networked mash filtration system and reduced brew cycle time and enhanced product quality. The information-enabled system provides real-time information that allows Full Sail Brewing to gain greater control over their process. This system enhanced the quality of each brew. The move to a more automated brewing system reduced the cycle time by 50% and increased capacity by 25%. Full Sail also decrease water use by one million gallons annually helping to augment its sustainability goals.
Make the Highest Quality Beer
Scalable Brewing Solutions for Consistent Taste and Greater Yield
Easily increase capacity without impacting your unique, customer-pleasing flavors. Whether you make 5 barrels, or a million, you must achieve consistent quality, improve yield, and reduce production time and costs to drive a profitable, productive brewery.
We offer flexible, scalable and cost-effective brewery solutions to help you increase capacity and operational efficiency. Experience how easy-to-configure, intuitive interaction with your brew process can reduce time spent on equipment, recipe and process management.
Brewery Increases Capacity by 50 Percent
Implementation of Virtualized Process Automation System to Meet Demand
Sleeman Breweries, the third largest brewer in Canada, had to increase production capacity to meet the growth in consumer demand. Their other challenge was to avoid the high expense of building a new greenfield facility. With support from McRae Integration, Sleeman Breweries implemented a virtualized process automation system that is based on the PlantPAx® DCS with Meridian BrewSoft software. Within two weeks, the brewer increased production capacity by 50 percent.
Brewing Automation and Control Solutions
Solutions to Meet Demand, Maintain Quality, and Reduce Costs
We offer solutions across the brewery, from receipt of materials to production to packaging and shipping. An information-enabled control system provides plant-wide visibility into all areas of production.
