Baltika Breweries
Baltika Breweries automates production process with Manufacturing Execution Systems, providing significant increase in data accuracy and streamlined reporting practices.
Goals
- The brewery required a modular automation software solution that would enable operations management to scale the system to meet future production requirements
- Reduce costs through improved equipment performance, lowered material losses, reduced production costs, and better supply chain processes from distributor warehouses
Challenges
- Ensuring that a new automation software solution could effectively integrate with existing hardware and software while increasing overall equipment performance
- Because accurately monitoring supplies of source ingredients is critical to maintaining adequate levels of brewing production, there was concern that an appropriate software solution may not be available
- With increasing global competition, reducing the facility’s production cost was a top priority for any new software implementation
Results
- The reduction of 8% in energy usage during the manufacturing process has enabled Baltika to lower its overall operating costs
- A 5% reduction in steam consumption during the beer manufacturing process has been achieved
- The cost of packaging materials has been lowered by 1.8% annually
- Baltika can now accurately determine production losses per batch and has achieved a reduction of 0.56% in extract loss
"The comprehensive AVEVA MES solution has provided a significant increase in the accuracy of our process control system enabling our operators to monitor the manufacturing lines in real time and more quickly react to anomalies that might occur. "
-Yuriy Chentyrev,
Director of Operations
