A fundamental advantage of the Braumat process control system is its easy handling. With the help of a graphic recipe editor, the brewing technician can create recipes for new products without any knowledge of programming and can also keep track of the process on-line with a monitor. Medium-sized companies can also enjoy the benefits of automation which Braumat provides and ensure a uniformly high quality for their beer products. Now, this also applies to small companies. Whether the brewing company is a large one or a small one, the system features the same underlying concept and the same approach to operator control.
Operational reliability is by no means forgotten.
The failure of an individual component does not immediately bring the whole automation system to a standstill. Some of the features that ensure this are parallel recording of jobs, recipes and archives, replacement strategies for workstations, parallel strategies in networking and remote service stations which can perform all the necessary functions. The engineering effort with Braumat is considerably lower that with conventional visualization systems and this includes the work involved in software changes and adaptations beyond the whole life cycle of the plant. Moreover, how to use the system can be learned in just a few days. For the automation platform, Siemens supplies the Simatic S5 and S7 control levels with the industrial networks, Simatic Net Profibus and Industrial Ethernet.