Electricity and Control November 2021

CONTROL SYSTEMS + AUTOMATION

Advancing automation at Maluti Mountain Brewery As a long-standing technology partner to Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABInBev), the world’s largest brewer, Siemens South Africa recently migrated Maluti Mountain Brewery in Lesotho from an old automation system in the brewing area to a central control and monitoring station which will combine the brewhouse and cellars and improve efficiencies under one control system.

M eeting current and future customer requirements quickly and with the highest quality is key in the food and beverage industry. ABInBev is a major beer manufacturer and its brewers want to produce beers with consistent quality for their customers. This project, implemented in partnership with Process Dynamics, a Solution partner to Siemens, features continuous innovation with Siemens’ Braumat system. The software was required to have virtualisation capability and to provide for recipe control and management, trend and alarm management, batch reporting and controlled access. Kamohelo Semuli, Brewery Specialist at Maluti Mountain Brewery (MMB) explains. “At Maluti Mountain Brewery we are passionate about brewing and the company has a long tradition of craftsmanship in making superb beer from high quality natural ingredients. Fast-changing recipes required us to be skilled with the new process quickly, which proved challenging. While we are creating the ‘brewery of the future’, it is important for us to deliver according to our customers’ demands and for the system to provide us with full transparency of the production process.

“The Siemens Braumat system enables this flexibil- ity. It manages the recipes and the process efficiently, minimises human interven- tion, and reduces extract losses. “Graphical recipe man- agement, route control pos- sibilities, batch reporting,

For more than 40 years Braumat has been recognised as the standard for brewing and process automation in the industry.

replay modes, efficiency, mobile working and other such features are valuable for our brewery of the future goals. We are confident that through our partnership with Siemens we will be able to achieve these goals.” Siemens is one of the leading technology suppliers to ABInBev globally. Munish Choudhary, Vertical Manager for Food and Beverage at Siemens South Africa says, “With our long history of engagement with the brewing world, we are making it easier for brewers to manage recipes, and helping them to optimise their use of resources such as water and energy in the brewing process.”

At Maluti Mountain Brewery this new automation technology provides for centralised control of all operations, including the brewhouse and the cellars.

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