Freelance Industry 4.0 Editor and B2B Content Marketer | Industries: Food, Beverage, Automation, Energy, Industrial Manufacturing and eMobility
Zoom in: The beer and spirits industry has moved to cans as the #packaging choice on retail shelves. Why? Spirits, no-alcohol and low-alcohol brands believe cans offer brand differentiation (I agree). My latest article in Food Engineering Magazine reveals how small and big #brewers have invested in #automation and process optimization at the plant level. Big takeaways below: • To offer more diversity of brands, grocery stores have cut into that: ‘You can use cans or you can use bottles.’ That has forced producers to assess what is selling better,” says Pfriem. “Looking at all the trends across the board, the consumer is heavily leaning toward cans.” • With these industry drivers, regional craft brewer Lakefront Brewery transitioned from bottles to cans and unified its control system at its Milwaukee plant. • (Sapporo USA) The control logic and HMIs are connected via Sepasoft’s Batch Procedure module, based on the International Society of Automation’s (ISA) 88 standard. “These built-in components, like the batch monitor, batch control and recipe editors, are built in (to the module),” says Fred Zaboli, principal engineer at Wunderlich-Malec Engineering. “There’s no need to write code or scripting to get to that point. Rockwell Automation Lakefront Brewery KHS Group Wunderlich-Malec Engineering, Inc. Inductive Automation Jacqueline Eldridge Sam Wilson Michael Leonard https://lnkd.in/gHSnueH2
