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Ithaca Brewing now has much greater visibility into its operations.

Visibility into Brewing Operations

A standardized yet customizable control platform gives this craft brewery better visibility into its operational efficiency while offering flexibility to fully automate its production in the future.

Near the end of the new canning line sits a tray packer that receives six-count cartons from an upstream cartoner and packs them into corrugated trays four per tray.

Texas Brewer Upgrades Bottling and Adds Cans

Installation of a canning line became a top priority as Altstadt Brewery opened new markets in Houston and Dallas. Also getting some serious upgrades was an existing bottling line.

A notable feature on the CCA440+ plastic carrier handle applicator is the overhead carrier queue. It lets an operator load up multiple stacks of carriers in one go and then turn to other tasks as the carriers are methodically conveyed into the feed station.

Revolution Brewing is All In On Cans

Though glass bottles were once a part of the mix at this well-known Chicago craft brewer, recently it’s been all about aluminum cans in multiple sizes.

At Fathead’s, cans exit a 24-head filler and are conveyed through an inspection system that checks for proper fill levels.

Craft Brewing—Quick Hits 2020

The steadily growing popularity of aluminum cans in the craft brewing segment has some brewers mothballing their glass bottling lines altogether.

The RFID scanner mounted to the side of the enclosure holding the HMI is connected to the machine’s Ethernet network for communication to the Logix processor and PanelView Plus HMI. Users log in with an RFID fob.

Machine Users Log In by RFID

By better controlling access to machine parameters, and by logging the date and time of as well as the changes in parameter values, machine troubleshooting is greatly enhanced.

Free Flow Wines President Rich Bouwer (l.), Chief Commercial Officer Heather Clauss, and VP, Operations Rob Perman

Co-Packer Dramatically Expands Wine Canning Capacity

In just two years, Free Flow Wines increases its wine-canning capabilities from one semi-automated line to three, adds a fully automated 300-can/min line, and triples its production space.

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