How breweries can become more digital

In our latest Podcast Dave speaks with GEA's Hassan Yaszdi, Senior Product Manager Digital Service, and Dr. Mark Schneeberger, Head of Development of GEA's Beer and Alcoholic Beverage Business and brewmaster, about how GEA is paving the way for breweries (and possibly other industries, too) to become more digital with their game-changing software

Over the next five to ten years, more and more new Industry 4.0 technologies will transform the production landscape of many industries - from connectivity to advanced analytics, robotics and automation. In the future, breweries will also be able to go paperless, monitor processes seamlessly, be notified of adjustments at any stage of the brewing process, and ultimately make changes with minimal human intervention. Such advanced monitoring software is now real - and more than that, it's on its way to becoming an auto-optimisation programme.

The ability to optimise a production unit in the future will depend on accurate, insightful and actionable data. However, many breweries lack the granular performance data necessary to take full advantage of digitisation and automation. This is where GEA's brewing and service experts come in, and they have now formulated an answer together with customers: GEA InsightPartner Brewery.

GEA InsightPartner Brewery is the first step, actually being in release phase 2 (for a whole brewhouse) at a customers site (Störtebeker Brewery in Germany). Future releases incorporating further process steps are in preparation. And best news: The GEA OptiPartner Brewery (which is the big brother of GEA InsightPartner) is no dream anymore, but already in the testing phase at a customer site.

As you will learn, whilst GEA InsightPartner gives brewers the knowledge to track and respond to their processes, GEA OptiPartner Brewery automatically handles end-to-end process optimisation for each brew, it really is a truly insightful listen….