Automation system for brewing

Like many manual brewing beer, is located in Fort Collins, new Belgium beer company originally is also begin from underground wine cellar, and eventually grow into a full-fledged enterprise. When tasting it brewing beer, will give you a deep impression, is one of the most famous beer Fat Tire Amber Ale, this is a only in 12 western countries will get beer tasting. Company was founded in 1995, new Belgium beer now the brewery, making it become a veritable small beer enterprises. The new brewery is different from the previous two, A is located in the basement in the previous two, another is located in the abandoned railway warehouse) It is automation from the beginning, the brewing of the automation system initially is Opto 22 OptoMux provided by the company. After using Opto 22 products for several years, the company has several automation system from OptoMux upgrades to its Mistic system, and also before transplantation to the M4 controller incorporates the Factory Floor, has recently added some Utimate I/O. In the past few years, new Belgium company's business is growing rapidly, this has prompted some of it is not satisfied with only using the system module, but the SCADA system in whole upgrade to Wonderware InTouch. Is the recent changes in wine-making industry field of automatic CONTROL, CONTROL ENGINEERING editorial director David Greenfield had an interview with the new Belgian beer company chief Igor Valuyev electrical and CONTROL engineers, talk about the automation system for they choose. Q: when you select a specific automation technology driven, exactly? This is actually from Jeff ( LeBesch, the founder of the company) In the first place. I used to be a system integration engineer for Opto 22 distributor service, Jeff was an electrical engineer, although he know some knowledge of industrial automation, but he is not an expert, he was looking for some easy to learn and at the same time and automation system of excellent quality and reasonable price. Here I am finished the installation of a new Belgium company of the first set of automation system, and has sat down to Jeff explained the working principle of the system. Only the time of day, Jeff had learned all the knowledge, he and the first installation, Jeff has done a lot of programming work. At first, we use B100/200 smart board, as the first wine-making workshop for OptoMux to automation systems. And the second wine shop and the second wine cellar, fermentation pits, malt processing district, dehydration production line automation system, adopted the Snap I/O and Ultimate I/O module. The filling area and assembling area, we adopt the Rockwell Automation/Allen - Bradley company PLC controller5 and SLC500 controller; Our barrel operation USES is production S5 and S7 PLC controller of Siemens company. In addition, we all use the facilities are made by Opto 22 system to control. In our process water treatment plant, we extract the brewing process of water first, and then convert it to microbes, again from the microbiota analysis out microbial gas, and then burn the gas in the gas generator to generate electricity, the whole process of Opto 22 OptoControl controller to control of the company. Q: new Belgium company evaluate what's the bottom line of the automation system? Jeff have seen several system, think cost is the main driving factors. Q: now that you are from a system integration engineer become new Belgium company's chief engineer, electrical and control, then, what role you play in the automated decision-making? I made one of the biggest decisions SCADA from Factory Floor to move to Wonderware InTouch. We really need more powerful SCADA, and we are now just Snap B3000 processor for standardization. At first, we use the old G4 Mistic controller and G4 Mistic I/O, then gradually from G4 Mistic to M4 controller and the Snap I/O module, at present we are using for Ultimate I/O system. In a business cooperation with small and flexible automation suppliers is very important, because you'll have lots of the industry is not common in other industries custom hardware. For example, we have some in the market now is not with I/O modules to provide proximity sensors; Can I request Opto22 company to help solve this problem, and it only took a week's time, we get the can use custom with our hardware I/O module. Q: how is your production process with the new automation technology to change? In the process of brewing, consistency and quality is the biggest problem. To achieve this consistency, automation is a necessary tool. The machine will not make mistakes, but people will. It also makes our operators can become an independent thinker, rather than just simply operating knob. They should think about and make a decision - - Can be a expert, basically all the basic work is done by automation hardware and software.
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