Implementing a production monitoring system in the brewery industry gives manufacturers the ability to meet production targets and deliver on time, without compromising quality.
The brewery industry, characterized by its rich history and diverse range of products, has seen significant growth and innovation in recent years. From small craft breweries to large-scale industrial operations, the industry caters to a wide variety of consumer preferences. The global craft beer market alone has experienced exponential growth, driven by a demand for unique and high-quality brews. However, with this growth comes the challenge of maintaining consistent quality, managing complex production processes, and meeting regulatory standards. To address these challenges, breweries are increasingly turning to advanced production monitoring systems.
Monitoring solutions are key to solve potential problems as they occur and mitigate risk. Bryan Sapot, Mingo Smart Factory CEO, talks with FoodBev Magazine about the importance of solutions like Mingo in the plant.
Production monitoring in the brewery industry involves the use of technology to track, analyze, and optimize the brewing process. This includes monitoring key parameters such as temperature, pressure, fermentation rates, and ingredient usage in real-time. By leveraging sensors, IoT devices, and integrated software systems, breweries can gain comprehensive insights into their production lines.
These are installed at various stages of the brewing process to collect real-time data on critical parameters.
These systems integrate data from different sources and provide a centralized platform for monitoring and control.
Advanced analytics tools process the collected data to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement.
Visual dashboards display real-time data, enabling quick decision-making and immediate corrective actions.
Real-time data analysis is crucial for breweries to maintain high standards of quality and efficiency. By analyzing data as it is generated, breweries can make informed decisions that enhance their production processes and product quality.
Real-time monitoring ensures that each batch of beer meets the required quality standards. Any deviations from the set parameters can be detected and corrected immediately, reducing the risk of producing substandard products.
Consistency is key in brewing, especially for large-scale operations. Real-time data helps maintain uniformity across batches, ensuring that consumers get the same taste and quality every time.
By analyzing data trends, breweries can predict equipment failures before they occur. This allows for scheduled maintenance, reducing unplanned downtime and increasing overall equipment efficiency.
The brewing industry is subject to stringent regulatory standards. Real-time data analysis ensures that all processes comply with these regulations, avoiding potential legal issues and fines.
Production monitoring systems unlock significant efficiency gains for breweries. By providing detailed insights into the production process, these systems enable breweries to optimize their operations and reduce waste.
In the rapidly evolving brewery industry, production monitoring has become essential for maintaining quality, efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Real-time data analysis provides breweries with the insights needed to optimize their processes, reduce waste, and ensure consistent product quality. By integrating advanced production monitoring systems, breweries can unlock significant efficiency gains and stay competitive in a crowded market. Investing in production monitoring technology is not just about keeping up with the industry standards; it’s about setting new benchmarks for excellence and innovation in brewing.
Mingo Smart Factory CEO, Bryan Sapot, provides his point of view into the world of digital technology on the factory floor. Read why real-time feedback, KPIs, tracking performance, and doing so with transparency is vital in today’s manufacturing workplace.
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Breweries are increasingly turning to advanced production monitoring systems to address the challenge of maintaining consistent quality, managing complex production processes, and meeting regulatory standards.
Many regulations require exact data about the production of food, beverage, and pet food products, and if you consider the amount of product produced on a daily basis, it can get very complicated quickly. It’s important for manufacturers to have precise data and understanding of the product being manufactured. The solution is data analytics and management.
Manufacturers have long relied on data collection through manual means – a person watching the machine to measure cycle time, calculating OEE offline, and reporting data through manually created excel spreadsheets. Those manual processes have not changed throughout the years, but as big data becomes widely adopted, data collection will need to be modernized, too. These processes will need to be automated. Not only does automation reduce mistakes and time spent on non-value-added tasks, but it increases understanding of what’s happening, in real-time. With food and beverage software, real visibility on the plant floor is possible.
There are a couple of examples of manufacturing productivity software in use that may help persuade you of the benefits.
Enhanced Quality Control and Consistency: Manufacturing productivity software allows breweries to monitor and control various aspects of the brewing process in real-time. By utilizing sensors and automated data collection, the software ensures that critical parameters like temperature, pressure, and fermentation times are consistently maintained.
Increased Operational Efficiency: Manufacturing productivity software streamlines brewery operations by providing real-time insights into production processes. This allows for better scheduling, resource allocation, and process optimization.
Data-Driven Decision Making: The software provides comprehensive analytics and reporting tools that help brewery managers make informed decisions based on accurate and up-to-date data. This leads to better strategic planning and operational improvements.
Understanding and evaluating the key performance indicators (KPIs) by plant, machine, metric, process, shift, etc. will help set your business apart from your competitors. With real-time, accurate analysis of virtually any brewery processing data and metrics you need, performing routine monitoring becomes simple and uncomplicated. Brewery manufacturing software provides you with the ability to eliminate the need to rely on reactive decision-making based on manual data collection. Get insights needed to:
All of the data collected can help inform decisions for future productivity with the use of automated reporting and visual dashboards. With manufacturing productivity software, you’ll be maximizing resources, unlocking valuable insights, and ensuring ongoing visibility into your factory floor. The traditional methods are transforming, evolving to help food and beverage manufacturers achieve their goals, with complete visibility. By implementing a software solution that can provide visibility, you’ll be growing leaps and bounds above the competition.
Choosing a software solution to help you increase efficiencies and improve productivity in the plant is a very unique process. You have goals you need to achieve and deadlines to meet so whichever software you choose, has to help you do that. While we encourage you to explore everything Mingo has to offer, you need to have an idea of what you want to accomplish before actually selecting software.
There are particular questions you need to consider before moving forward. What is your price point? Does the software fit within your budget? What is the implementation process like? Do you need someone to spearhead the project or will the company handle that? Specifically, how will it help you achieve your goals? Have they worked with manufacturers in your industry before? While these are only a few examples, there’s a lot of research that needs to be done before signing on the dotted line.
However, Mingo can provide visibility to the following industries: food, beverage, including soda or soft drinks, bottled water, pet food, breweries, etc. Mingo’s focus is not limited to one particular industry but can be applied to virtually any food manufacturing or beverage manufacturing industry. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team of manufacturing experts. We’re happy to help.
Look closely at is exactly why you were able to increase OEE. If you fully understand the mechanisms behind the increase you can determine if improvements are permanent, seasonal, or part of a larger, more complex process, etc. Knowing this information could help you make improvements in other parts of your business.
Yes, we have a mobile app designed to give you insight into the plant, even when you’re not there. Get completely configurable real-time alerts that help you understand what’s happening. Get notified, and escalate the issue as needed, when a machine is down or scrap is too higher. Alerts can be customized to the metrics you care about.
Mingo Smart Factory also has the capability to send manufacturing insights emails to provide automatic reporting. Summarizing the end of the shift, end of the day, or end of the week numbers, these emails eliminate the need for manual, tedious reporting. Additionally, scoreboards throughout the plant provide visibility at a glance, telling operators and managers alike, if they’re ahead or behind the target. Operator screens on machines, stations, or lines help operators know how they’re performing at any given moment.
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