Making beer manufacture more flexible and more efficient

Digitalization makes it easier to adapt quickly to new market situations

Consumers alert to trends rather than traditional beer drinkers: breweries have to adapt to a changing market that is also being served by an increasing number of new providers. To survive and succeed, breweries need to expand their portfolios both cost-efficiently and in line with the highest quality standards. Digitalization plays a key role in this process. It gives them the tools to be able to respond quickly, flexibly and cost-efficiently to current market demands, with no loss of quality. Digitalization makes the flood of data in breweries transparent and easy to follow: from stock receipt to shipping, from the brewing vat to management, and from product development to the glass.

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BRAUMAT process control system

More performance and transparency

The BRAUMAT process control system lastingly increases your competitiveness thanks to effective control over recipe-driven processes, maximum transparency, flexibility and quality. Find out more here.

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Digital Twin Our holistic approach for creating Digital Twins offers tangible benefits: You can substantially reduce the number of prototypes you need, predict the performance of the production unit and the products themselves, and ensure you produce what your customers expect.

The digital twin is the precise virtual model of a product or a production plant. It displays their development throughout the entire lifecycle and allows operators to predict behavior, optimizing performance, and implement insights from previous design and production experiences.

Our comprehensive concept of the digital twin consists of three forms: the digital twin of the product, the digital twin of production, and the digital twin of the performance of both product and production. Thanks to our comprehensive domain expertise and optimized tools, Siemens is the only company that offers this holistic approach.

There is tremendous value gained from performing "what if" scenarios and predicting future performance with the digital twin. The ultimate goal of the digital twin is in the closed-loop connection between the virtual world of product development and production planning with the physical world of production system and product performance. Through this connection actionable insight is gained from the physical world for informed decisions throughout the lifecycle of products and production operations.

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Digitalization Companies become digital enterprises by integrating and digitalizing the entire value chain. For every step from developing a new product through to continuously optimizing a plant, Siemens provides a coordinated portfolio of hardware and software.

Our interactive graphics shows clearly the products and solutions that help you to optimize your processes and to meet the diverse requirements of your customers.

Digital Enterprise

The production process in detail

Product design

Production planning

Production engineering

Production execution

Services

The Digital Enterprise enables manufacturing companies to streamline and digitalize their entire business process, seamlessly integrating suppliers into the mix. They can begin at any point of their value chain, from product design to service, and can extend digitalization gradually, depending on their current needs.

Solutions at a glance

Siemens offers the right solution for each step in the production process.

Product design:
SIMATIC IT R&D Suite, Simcenter
Production planning:
Tecnomatix Plant Simulation, COMOS Process
Production engineering:
COMOS Walkinside, PLCSIM Advanced
Production execution:
SIMATIC IT Preactor, SIMATIC IT IM
Services:
MindSphere – the cloudbased, open IOT operating system

Discover Industry Services for the brewery industry

Siemens offers services that increase the availability and efficiency of brewery plants. Various services improve the system transparency and help to detect defects on electrical and mechanical components before they occur. They help to reduce energy and maintenance costs – you can schedule maintenance at the right time within the production cycle.

Energy Analytics

Energy Analytics can tell you where and why you are wasting energy, as well as advice you on what measures you can take to reduce the energy consumption.

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Industrial Security services

Industrial Security Services help to protect plants, systems, machines and networks against cyber threats. It is necessary to implement – and continuously maintain – a holistic, state-of-the-art industrial security concept.

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Migration services

Migration of “mature” long-serving Automation Systems will prolong the life of your machines and increase productivity at reasonable costs.

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SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service

Standardized virtualized systems for SIMATIC PCS 7 and SIMATIC WinCC, which covers pre-configured, ready-to-run system components, including a matching service and support offer. Four different hardware platform variants allow to scale the virtualization solution to the actual requirements.

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SIMATIC PCS 7 Lifecycle services

Lifecycle cost optimization by minimizing operational and financial risks with help of transparent service costs for up to 15 years.

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Drive Train Analytics

Early detection of upcoming faults before breakdown, enabling you to define and execute countermeasures in time.

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Highlights Find out more about the specific solutions from Siemens for breweries and the major benefits offered by digitalization.

How can Digital Twins help brewing beer of the highest grade?

Digitalization for the brewing industry – Siemens at BrauBeviale 2016

The Werner von Siemens beer, from the Department of Brewing and Beverage Technology at the Technical University of Munich.

References Many of our products and solutions are already being successfully used in the food and beverage industry. Below is a selection of these applications.

Brogan’s Way

Australia

Quality, consistency, and scalability for craft gin distillery

Comprehensive, modular automation solution for production process regulation, automation, and control
Automation of a Deacam Fermecraft system based on SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC and SINAMICS G120 drives
Solution helps ensure quality and consistency and provides small manufacturers with a degree of scalability previously only available for much larger businesses

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Braumanufaktor Störtebeker

Germany

Digital brewery operation in focus

Digitalization adds to handicraft art of brewing
Control of filling line with SIMATIC HMI KP300 Basic Panel and SIMATIC S7-1200 controllers
Future increase of energy efficiency based on data analytics

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Constellation Brands Inc., Nava Brauerei

Coahuila, Mexiko

Standardized production process for one of the world’s largest breweries

Development of a global standard that’s spanned over 20 OEMs around the world
Consistent automation and controls look and feel for recipe management, path management, filling, and packaging
Operation of one of the largest fleets of laser-guided vehicles using SCALANCE Wireless