From the "sauce-flavored latte" that was popular in the circle of friends not long ago, to the popular "red wine American" in winter, the alcoholic drinks that were originally common on the table frequently "went out of the circle", bringing people more and more surprises. Behind it, it is inseparable from the historical inheritance and development of the core technology of traditional brewing technology, and it is inseparable from the support of digital technologies such as flexible production and intelligent warehousing.
In the past, the traditional brewing industry, which has always emphasized artisanal craftsmanship, did not seem to have a strong correlation with digitalization. With the deepening of the integration of the digital economy and the real economy, cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things have increasingly shown strong "catalytic" potential in the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and the brewing industry is no exception. As early as 2007, the China Liquor Industry Association launched the "China Liquor 169 Plan [1]", and successively launched the "China Liquor 158 Plan [2]" and "China Liquor 3C Plan [3]" in 2010 and 2013, and then issued in 2021 in the "China Liquor Industry "14th Five-Year Plan" Industry Development Guidance" proposed to "promote innovation and development with intelligent brewing, further promote the intelligence of key processes, production control automation and chain optimization". Leading companies are piloting around the theme of "Smart Brewing" and creating a development pattern for lighthouse factories.
In addition, new and old consumers have very different preferences for the taste, brewing process, and quality of each type of wine. The increasingly diversified and personalized consumer demand has put forward higher requirements for the product innovation ability, process stability, green and safe production, lean management and other aspects of traditional brewing enterprises, and relying on digital technology, enterprises can efficiently improve their automated and flexible production capacity to better respond to market changes and achieve long-term value. Therefore, digital transformation is no longer an "option" for the brewing industry, but a "must" for enterprises to survive and grow.
However, in the process of digital transformation, brewing companies are faced with many challenges: how to ensure the anti-counterfeiting traceability and security compliance of alcohol products to meet the demand for higher quality consumption;How to optimize production management efficiency and speed up the new product launch cycle to balance the faster consumption rhythm;and how to open up the massive data of brewing, distillation and other links to achieve interconnection from the terminal to the cloud. On the other hand, as a labor-intensive industry, the brewing process and production schedule are susceptible to the shortage of manpower.
From planning to implementation, it empowers enterprises to "brew" the three core values
As a global expert in digital transformation in the field of energy management and automation, Schneider Electric relies on green intelligent manufacturing solutions to help brewing enterprises complete the comprehensive construction from automation to informatization, and empower customers to build smart factories and realize smart brewing. Focusing on the practical challenges of the digital transformation of the brewing industry, Schneider Electric provides consulting services and software and hardware solutions covering the whole life cycle of design, construction, operation and maintenance, helping enterprises improve production efficiency and energy efficiency, ensure food safety and quality, and reduce comprehensive costsAdvanced technology, standardized process, transparent and traceableThree core values.
Technological advancement:With Schneider Electric's advanced digital solutions, breweries can efficiently integrate and manage the entire production process, reduce unplanned downtime, and achieve rapid line adjustments and reduced production energy consumption, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Among them,Asset information management platform **EVA AIMIt can help brewing enterprises build a digital delivery platform for engineering projects in the design and construction stages, realize all functions from the export of design tools to the import of the platform to the complete realization of digital delivery, and lay the foundation for the construction of digital twin breweries by establishing a three-dimensional visualization virtual factory management platform.
**Ecostruxure PMA (Predictive Maintenance Advisor).Based on big data + AI technology, it can continuously diagnose all fault types of all basic components in a complex brewing production environment, reduce the number of unexpected equipment downtime, increase equipment utilization and reduce maintenance costs, thereby empowering inspection personnel.
EMS energy management system solutionsAccording to the process characteristics of the brewing industry, an energy KPI grading system can be established to realize the analysis of energy consumption data at the production line level and equipment level, helping enterprises improve energy management efficiency and reduce production energy consumption in factories. According to statistics, after the implementation of the EMS energy management system solution, the overall energy consumption of the enterprise can be reduced by an average of 5%, and the highest consumption reduction is even more than 30%.
Process standardization:The standardization of the production process is closely related to the standardization of product quality. Schneider Electric's solutions can provide precise control of the whole brewing process for different enterprises according to their standardized needs, so as to provide a strong guarantee for the quality of the final delivered products. Among them,**EVA APC Advanced Process Control SystemThrough a variety of advantages such as polymerization model**, optimized control, data analysis, and safety design, "expert" precise control can be created in the five key process links of koji making, brewing, distillation, storage and packaging, helping enterprises to achieve an overall improvement in the level of brewing technology.
Machine Xi algorithm control systemThe algorithm control model can be used to replace the original manual control or setpoint control, and the global optimal solution can be found under the constraints of rules through the overall indicators such as comprehensive quality, cost, and efficiency, so as to help enterprises achieve effective improvement of production efficiency at a lower cost, and at the same time reduce the influence of human factors as much as possible under the premise of ensuring the standardization of the brewing process and product quality.
Transparent and traceable:With end-to-end and full-chain data traceability, Schneider Electric can help breweries create transparent management of the entire production process to ensure product quality and safety and production compliance. Among them,MOM Manufacturing Execution SystemWith brewing production as the main line, the whole process management from material preparation, feeding and weighing, formula management to quality tracking and performance analysis can be achieved through business collaboration such as process, production, inventory, quality, equipment, and energy, helping brewing enterprises achieve end-to-end continuous and transparent tracking management.
Proleit Plant IT process control systemIt is a complete solution covering PCS process control system, MES system, EMS energy management system and LMS line management system, which can horizontally integrate the whole brewing production process from pre-treatment, packaging to warehousing, and vertically integrate the brewing production control from operation, execution to workshop, so as to realize two-way traceability of product qualityRelying on its central database, combined with functions such as sequence control, batch control, audit trail, electronic signature, etc., it can efficiently integrate order, recipe and batch management, ensure full transparency and traceability of historical events and data, and ensure production safety and compliance.
APS Advanced Planning Scheduling SystemIt can automatically implement production optimization according to the current production capacity of the brewing plant, formulate the most reasonable production plan at present, and can quickly and accurately deliver the production time under the condition of limited production capacity, and realize the coordinated operation of production, supply and marketing through synchronous feedback to the production and production departmentsBy reading the feedback from MOM and other systems on completion, it is also possible to combine the actual production situation, production plan with the actual material requirements, helping breweries achieve lean production.
In addition, Schneider Electric has built a consulting-led full lifecycle service covering the planning and implementation process. Based on the comprehensive evaluation and planning of brewing enterprises, Schneider Electric will also provide group-level planning, factory-level intelligent manufacturing planning and lighthouse factory planning services including top-level planning, first-chain consulting, lean consulting, digital factory planning, energy management consulting and integrated production scheduling and integrated operation management from the four levels of decision-making, management and operation, production line construction and production control of the brewing plant.
Join hands with brewing companies to accelerate the exploration of digital practices
With the deepening of digital transformation in the brewing industry, many leading enterprises have achieved a comprehensive upgrade of production efficiency and management level with the help of Schneider Electric and relying on diversified green intelligent manufacturing solutions.
Take a factory of a world-renowned beer brand as an example, which bears nearly 20% of its global volume, so ensuring the stability of the factory's key equipment and production has become the top priority. Schneider Electric's tailor-made maintenance solution can detect abnormalities and issue fault warnings in advance in the early or potential stage of equipment failure, improve equipment reliability and comprehensive operation efficiency by eliminating potential hidden dangers in system operation and building an equipment early warning model, and escort the continuous, stable and efficient production of the plant.
In addition, with the help of Schneider Electric's "planning first" digital transformation solution, a well-known sauce-flavored liquor brand group has created a smart logistics packaging park with intelligent manufacturing and digital manufacturing as the direction by means of lean manufacturing, fine management and digital management optimization. Combined with the current situation research and demand empowerment opportunity analysis, Schneider Electric provided the group with a digital strategic plan, put forward the blueprint planning and implementation path suggestions of "leading the industry for 20 years" of liquor packaging, and carried out the "three modernizations" design of lean, automation and digitalization of infrastructure, data architecture, business architecture, application architecture, technology architecture and integration architecture. Based on Schneider Electric's lean layout production line combined with simulation optimization, the group has completed the optimal layout design of the lean production line and the comprehensive integration of IT OT ET AT, laying a data and technical foundation for the construction of its smart factory, and realizing the all-round value from top-level planning to implementation.
Schneider Electric has been deeply involved in the Chinese market for nearly 40 years and continues to pay attention to the development of the brewing industry. Based on the real needs of enterprises, Schneider Electric has always been committed to a series of technology and value innovations from top-level planning and consulting for digital transformation to industry-oriented professional system software and hardware platforms, from first-class chain management experience to smart logistics practice, from energy management solutions to lean production practices, to provide comprehensive and high-quality products and services for leading enterprises in the digital era, and empower China's brewing industry to accelerate its digital transformation and move towards an open, efficient, resilient, sustainable and people-oriented future industry.
1] In 2007, the China Liquor Industry Association proposed the "China Baijiu 169 Plan" to study the basic issues related to the quality of liquor, such as health components, liquor characteristics and flavor substances.
2] In 2010, the China Liquor Industry Association launched the "China Baijiu 158 Plan", proposing to improve the automation level from five key process links, including koji-making, brewing, distillation, storage and packaging, aiming to improve the level of traditional Chinese baijiu brewing equipment.
3] In 2017, the China Liquor Industry Association launched the "China Liquor 3C Plan", which aims to promote the development of the national mid-to-high-end liquor industry and promote the transformation and upgrading of China's liquor industry through policy, technology and market support.