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VatControl Recipe & SCADA Suite
Model VC-SCADA
Plant-wide supervision over the top of the cabinets: live mimic of every vessel, recipe versioning with sign-off, and batch records that export straight into an audit pack.
- Connected load
- 0.3kW
- Vessel count
- 60
- Lead time
- 4 – 6weeks
- Material
- Industrial panel PC, 21-inch
Description
Once a brewery passes about a dozen vessels, the question stops being “what is this tank doing” and becomes “what is the plant doing”. The SCADA suite sits above the cabinets and answers the second question.
Versioned recipes
Every recipe change creates a new version with an author and a timestamp. The old version stays runnable. When a beer that was fine in March is wrong in September, the difference is visible in one screen.
Records that survive an audit
Batch records export as signed PDF alongside the raw CSV. Access is per-user with a full audit trail, and the historian can be mirrored if losing the data would be a regulatory problem rather than an inconvenience.
Engineering highlights
- Live plant mimic shows every vessel, its setpoint, its actual and the recipe step it is sitting in.
- Recipes are versioned with sign-off, so a change is attributable and the previous version is still runnable.
- Five years of ten second trend data, which is long enough to answer questions about last summer.
- Read-only browser access means the head brewer can check the cellar from home without being able to break it.
Specification
Technical data
| Model | VC-SCADA |
|---|---|
| Vessel count | 60 |
| Connected load | 0.3 kW |
| Material | Industrial panel PC, 21-inch |
| Lead time | 4 – 6 weeks |
| Supervised vessels | Up to 60 |
| Trending | 5 years at 10 second resolution |
| Export | CSV and signed PDF batch record |
| Access control | Per-user roles and audit trail |
| Remote view | Browser, read-only by default |
| Redundancy | Mirrored historian, optional |
Dimensions are nominal and exclude platforms and insulation. Voltage, frequency and connection standards are built to the destination market.
Process flow, stage by stage
Select any stage to read what happens inside it, the process parameters we hold it to, and exactly which systems in the catalogue cover that part of the line.
Grist milling and dry handling
A two-roller mill cracks the husk without shredding it, then a dust-tight auger drops the grist straight into the hydrator. Gap is set from the panel so the same recipe delivers the same crush every single brew day.
Step mashing under recipe control
Steam or electric elements drive the mash through each enzymatic rest. The controller holds every step within a tight band and logs the whole curve, so a recipe written once repeats on any vessel in the range.
Wort separation and sparging
A fine stainless screen and slow-moving rakes draw clear wort from the grain bed without compacting it. The system watches the flow continuously and adjusts itself before the bed can stick.
Wort boiling and evaporation
An internal steam heater gives a rolling but gentle boil at a controlled rate, driving off unwanted flavours while protecting the colour of the beer. Steam vapour goes to a condenser so the brewhouse stays dry and the heat is recovered.
Settling and clarifying
The wort enters at an angle that sets up a smooth rotation, and the solids gather into a tight cone at the centre of the floor. A short rest leaves bright, clear wort ready for cooling, with very little lost.
Heat exchange and aeration
A two-stage heat exchanger takes the wort from the kettle down to fermentation temperature in a single pass, recovering the heat into the hot water tank along the way. Sterile air is added inline, ready for the yeast.
Fermentation and conditioning
Conical fermentation tanks carry the beer all the way from yeast to packaging without a transfer. Two independent cooling zones let different parts of the tank sit at different temperatures, and every tank holds its own setting.
Counter-pressure filling and seaming
A rotary counter-pressure filler purges each can, fills it under pressure and seams it under a carbon dioxide blanket. Low dissolved oxygen pickup is what keeps the beer tasting the same on week six as on day one.
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Enquiry
Ask about the VatControl Recipe & SCADA Suite
Tell us the beer you plan to brew on it and where it will stand. We will confirm sizing, utilities and delivery, and send a firm quotation.
- Sized general arrangement drawing for your floor plan
- Steam, glycol, power and water loads confirmed in writing
- Delivery window and commissioning plan with the price
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