Deschutes Brewery
Deschutes Brewery improves its production quality with AVEVA PI System
Deschutes Brewery uses AVEVA PI System to apply machine learning and advanced analytics to its brewing data. During the cooling phase of the process, temperatures spiked in the fermenters and it was difficult to predict exactly when each beer should move from one fermentation phase to the next, forcing teams to take numerous manual readings. With AVEVA PI System, Deschutes Brewery now makes fermentation cooling consistent and repeatable, while greatly reducing the need for manual readings during transition phases. Contextualized data enables the brewery to improve beer quality, make its recipes more reliable and speed up production cycles.
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How does AVEVA support a craft brewery's transition to industrial-scale production?
Deschutes Brewery relies on AVEVA System Platform, InTouch and Historian to automate its production while preserving the craft quality of its beers. Industrial supervision centralizes control of tanks, fermentation temperatures and bottling lines. This digital transformation enables the brewery to increase volumes without compromising its signature taste, ensuring perfect recipe reproducibility batch after batch.
What role does AVEVA Historian play in brewery traceability?
AVEVA Historian continuously collects data from every stage of brewing: temperatures, pressures, fermentation times and filtration parameters. This high-resolution historization allows Deschutes Brewery to trace every batch of beer in full, from raw materials to bottling. In the event of a customer complaint or quality audit, retrospective data analysis is immediate, securing regulatory compliance and brand protection.
Why does AVEVA InTouch HMI improve the management of food and beverage production?
AVEVA InTouch HMI gives Deschutes brewers an intuitive graphical interface showing the entire process in real time. Operators see the status of tanks, valves and pumps from the control room and can intervene immediately if an anomaly occurs. Improved situational awareness reduces losses caused by undetected drift and standardizes procedures, ensuring consistent quality at scale in the craft beer industry.
How can a brewery's energy efficiency be optimized with AVEVA?
Brewing is an energy-intensive process: heating, cooling and bottling. AVEVA Historian allows Deschutes Brewery to identify the most energy-hungry areas and correlate consumption with production. Combined with System Platform, this analysis feeds concrete action plans: adjusting setpoints, optimizing cycles and scheduling operations during off-peak hours. It is a typical value-creating digital transformation approach in food and beverage, with both economic and environmental benefits.
What business benefits does a brewery gain from a full AVEVA project?
For Deschutes Brewery, the combined deployment of System Platform, InTouch and Historian made production more reliable, improved traceability and supported volume growth without increasing headcount. Benefits include reduced process losses, faster recipe changeovers, better use of data and the ability to industrialize new products. In a competitive craft beer market, this industrial agility is a major competitive advantage.