19.10.06 00:00 Age: 5 yrs
Brewmaxx Advanced, process control technology for breweries
ProLeiT presents at this year's Brau Beviale the brewmaxx process control system that has been extended with comprehensive MES functions; brewmaxx has already proved its capabilities in more than 300 brewery applications throughout the world.
brewmaxx is available in two different configurations:
brewmaxx Standard supports all functions concerned with the automation of the production process of a brewery over all process stages (brewhouse, fermentation storage cellar, filtration, pressure tank, auxiliary operations).
brewmaxx Advanced provides additional MES functionality above that contained in brewmaxx Standard. In particular, a central order assignment, graphical recipe handling, a comprehensive materials management with batch tracking and a powerful reporting system should be mentioned.
It is also possible to exchange data with ERP or LIMS systems using standardized interfaces.
Exhibition: brewmaxx Advanced
A brewmaxx application with SAP R/3 coupling for the complete production block of a brewery is used to display the following, newly developed system functions:
Graphical, multi-level recipe management
The structuring of the plants with a physical and a procedural model in accordance with ISA S88 permits a significantly simplified control of the brewing process. The technologically relevant parameters can be easily edited in a graphical summarized display.
Materials Management
The materials management integrated in brewmaxx permits the complete inventory management of the used materials, the feedback of the material consumptions to SAP R/3, and is the prerequisite for batch tracking and the cross-process level reporting.
Quality status / LIMS interface
A standardized interface is used to transfer the associated batch start signal or the sampling trigger to the LIMS system. The analytical results of the taken samples are tested for specification violation and the results (sample status) returned as usage decision to the process control system.The application example of a standardized coupling to the LIMS-system transgraph is exhibited on booth H5/202 from Vette Corp., Cologne.
"Exception-based" alarm signaling
This makes it possible to use process events to selectively define when an operator intervention is necessary. The result is an optimum operator prompting.
Tank farm management
The "Tank farm wizard" allows the parameterization of complex tank farms, including the permitted path combinations and their interlocks. The tank farm overview provides an online visualization for the current status of the complete tank farm, a tank group or a single tank.
Technological classes for malt transport
New technological classes, such as the "Conveyer Motor Control" and the "Sequence Control" for conveyor belt controllers, are available for automating the malt transport.
Tank and path selection for an automated fermentation and storage cellar stocking (selector)
The parameterized rules (business rules) for the tank assignment automate the selection of the paths for both the product transfer and the cleaning. This ensures a significant simplification of the operator actions (relieving load of the operator) and a "cellar assignment with strategy".
Optimized order/job list
For the automatic starting and processing of recipes based on time specifications or for determining free resources in cooperation with the selector.
Exhibition: brewmaxx Standard, the exclusive standard for mid-sized breweries
The complete, integrated automation of a brewery with the latest brewmaxx system generation is presented.
Exhibition: Production data management with brewmaxx Acquis iT
Productivity improvement with plant monitoring using characteristic values (OEE)
As an example, a filling and packaging plant equipped with PDA and filler-stop tracker is presented to evaluate the efficiency of a plant using OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) characteristic values.
This form of the process analysis using OEE characteristic values establishes the connection of the availability and the performance of a plant with the quality of the manufactured products and so forms the basis for the optimization of the production processes and the cost control.
Energy data acquisition and load management
Application examples in breweries show not only solution concepts, but also concrete saving potentials using energy data acquisition and load management.
An objective that is more topical than ever before.
Visit us at the Brau, Hall 5, Booth 200, and inform yourself about the latest software technology for brewers. We are sure there will also be something of interest for you.
