Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) presented its range of products and services for the beverages and brewing industry between 13 and 15 November at the Brau 2002 international trade fair for the brewing industry in Nuremberg, Germany.
Alongside the field-proven Braumat Classic system and the new Braumat PCS 7 that facilitates the integrated automation of entire production sites, Siemens also presented Simatic-IT products for optimising operational sequences.
Both Braumat systems use direct representations of the brewing process and the plant structure of a brewery - in accordance with the ISA-S88 standard (Instrument Society of America). This allows efficient planning and operation of plants. The ISA-S88-compliant Braumat recipe system controls batch processing and brewing according to different recipes, for example. It is easy to change setpoints or to define new process sequences. The plant and the production process are monitored from a centrally located PC. From here, the operator has access at the click of a mouse to plant sections, production steps, or transitions, right down to individual parameters and measured values. The optional graphical Cross Streaming module tracks parallel and crossing production lines.
The more up-to-date Braumat PCS7 system backs totally integrated automation - from incoming malt, to the bottling stage. Braumat PCS7 is scalable and is suitable for all breweries, large and small. The Route Control System safely controls even complex product routes - in tank farms, for example.
Also on show was the Simatic-IT range for the beverage and brewing industry that facilitates reductions in procurement and production costs, for example, and that also allows individual plant sections such as the lab or even the entire supply chain to be integrated into the business processes. With Simatic IT, Siemens offers MES (manufacturing execution systems) products with which production lines can be adapted flexibly and at low cost to the fast changing desires of the consumer.
Simatic IT Unilab is used to optimise lab operations in order to improve and ensure quality by reducing delivery times, faults, and waste when taking samples and performing analyses.
Simatic IT Interspec manages product specifications - from raw materials up to semi-packaged and full-packaged products. It is used to reduce purchasing costs, and also to verify quality in accordance with product liability regulations.
The production management system Simatic IT Architecture & Components is a tool for modelling production systems to enable efficient advance design of production processes.
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