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ifm supports experimental and training brewery

Food industry
Beverages Beer
Monitoring and maintenance
Condition monitoring Product quality
Case Study

State-of-the-art technical centre offers practical training and further education

Quick and easy set-up

Ensured product quality

Support with planning and commissioning

Results

  • Easy set-up
  • Reduced amount of wiring due to IO-Link masters in field use
  • Support by ifm for set-up
  • Additional measured values and functions via IO-Link allow a deeper look into the system

The challenge

The core of the brewery, a classic 4-unit brewhouse consisting of a mash tun, a lauter tun for solid-liquid separation, a wort kettle for the boiling process and a whirlpool for separating hop constituents and protein, is used in the new training and experimental brewery. It is important for Doemens to ensure flexibility in the brewhouse and thus to be able to implement different brewing methods with a wide variety of raw materials for different brewing results.

Doemens

The Doemens Academy was founded in 1895 and is an internationally successful training, further education and consulting company for the brewing, beverage and food industry with a holistic and innovative way of thinking. Theory and practice are combined in a unique way: employees from the field with a high level of competence, tailor-made offers for the needs of the different sectors, and customer-specific, flexible solutions.

The academy has an excellent international reputation and offers practical training opportunities for the brewing, beverage and food industry. For this purpose, a modern technical centre with an experimental brewery including even a filling system is available. Laboratory services for industry are also offered.

Doemens

The Doemens Academy was founded in 1895 and is an internationally successful training, further education and consulting company for the brewing, beverage and food industry with a holistic and innovative way of thinking. Theory and practice are combined in a unique way: employees from the field with a high level of competence, tailor-made offers for the needs of the different sectors, and customer-specific, flexible solutions.

The academy has an excellent international reputation and offers practical training opportunities for the brewing, beverage and food industry. For this purpose, a modern technical centre with an experimental brewery including even a filling system is available. Laboratory services for industry are also offered.

The solution – why ifm?

Therefore, it was decided to use a plant with a capacity of 5 hl, which is small compared to industrial plants, but allows a large number of different brewing processes for the students. Despite the smaller plant size, the brewhouse includes all the measuring and control technology of a conventional industrial brewhouse in order to monitor and control the brewing processes as precisely as possible. This enables the students to receive practical training for their future careers. From planning to commissioning, Doemens was supported by numerous industrial partners such as ifm. The use of valve, level, flow and temperature measurement creates maximum precision, user-friendliness and flexibility through the possibility of intervention. This makes it easier and more convenient to produce good beer. Temperature sensors also enable continuous monitoring in the upstream process in the malthouse to avoid wastage due to incorrect temperatures.

Subsequently, the wort from the brewhouse can be matured in the fermentation and storage cellar to finish the beer and is reliably secured by self-monitoring temperature sensors without the risk of temperature deviation.

These sensors are connected directly in the field via IO-Link masters, which saved Doemens a considerable amount of wiring. Even cleaning processes are no obstacle to using the masters directly on the plant.

By monitoring and automating all processes, it is now possible to achieve optimal production results and to realise further education and training that is as practical as possible.

Case Study:ifm supports experimental and training brewery

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