Application background
Moosehead Breweries is a beer manufacturing company founded in 1867. Their factory in St. John operates 24 hours a day, with a daily production capacity of more than 1.2 million hectolitres.
However, in 1989, the company’s brewery encountered many difficulties when cleaning the aged beer in the wine cellar. For example, cleaning the tank with hot alkali would cause the temperature of the adjacent tank to rise, thereby causing the beer inside to age; Great changes can overheat the processing area and so on.
solution
The various problems encountered by the winery made Moosehead realize that they needed an automated control system to improve the control and sequencing of the wine cellar cooling device, while also monitoring and controlling the execution of the factory. In this case, Moosehead chose VTScada, a data acquisition and monitoring software product.
The reasons why Moosehead chose VTScada are:
(1) The operation of VTScada is very simple and easy to get started. Their operators do not need to spend time on any training or reprogram their PLC;
(2) Developers only need to create an interface similar to the existing operating screens in the Moosehead factory on the VTScada platform (including old-fashioned membrane buttons), and then they can use the mouse to perform remote operations in VTScada , which requires a lot of learning time and energy. less.
to sum up
By using VTScada, Moosehead has realized the automatic control of the temperature of its wine cellar, no longer being troubled by the previous problems, and the production efficiency has been greatly improved. In addition, they also use VTScada in the company's engineering, carbonization, fermentation, packaging and brewing departments, and realize batch management and quality control through VTScada, thereby greatly improving the operating efficiency of the entire company.
