HMS Micro brewery User Manual
Solution: Remote Management
Country: UK
Company: Insight Control
Solutions Ltd
Case study:
Micro brewery
Benefits
mOnline access to control system,
24/7
mBetter control of temperature
mFewer manual checks needed
“Remote Management is
extremely useful to both us and
our customers.”
Bob Haynes
Director,
Insight Control Soluons Ltd.
Hi-tech beer!
Making beer is a complicated process. Although it only consists
of malt, yeast, hops and water, it takes a lot of skill, experience
and craftsmanship to get the brewing process right and produce
a good beer. At Howard Town Brewery in Glossop outside
Manchester, this process is perfected with great attention to
detail. That is why they are using the eWON Netbiter Remote
Management solution which allows the brewing process to be
monitored 24/7.
The Netbiter Remote Management soluon is a part of a state-of-the art automaon
system put together by system integrator Insight Control Soluons on behalf of
Howard Town Brewery.
Insight Control Soluons Ltd. designs, builds and installs control systems across the
UK and have become experts in control systems, especially for chillers. “But we deal
with everything that needs controlling,” says Bob Haynes, Director at Insight Control
Soluons. “As long as you can measure it, we can control it,” he says with a laugh.
Quickly realized the business potential
Insight Control Soluons rst got in contact with Netbiter through their supplier of
Crouzet PLCs. These PLCs are very well-suited for connecng to Netbiter for remote
monitoring and control. “We tried out Netbiter for a lile while and quickly realized
the business potenal in oering this service to our clients,” says Bob Haynes. “As long
as a device uses Modbus, we can connect it to Netbiter and monitor and control it
remotely.”
How it works
In the brewery in Glossop, Bob Haynes has set up a control system which controls the
brewing process. A Netbiter gateway connects to the Crouzet PLC which controls the
system. The Netbiter gateway sends data via Ethernet, or the cellular network, to the
cloud-based Netbiter Argos service where it is stored and accessed.
Insight Control Soluons and Howard Town Brewery can log in to the web page
www.netbiter.net to see the status of their brewing tanks, chillers, water levels and
In the brewery control panel (left), it is possible to see all current values in the system. A Netbiter gateway is connected to
this control panel and sends data to the Netbiter cloud service which can be accessed at www.netbiter.net (right).
Here, the users can see the same thing online as the can in the real panel. The brewery can also control the equipment and
get alarms if a value reaches a certain level.
temperatures and make sure everything is OK. If values reach
certain levels, they can get alarms via a text message or
email.
With Netbiter, the brewery can have full control over the
fermentaon process without having to be constantly on site
24/7. This not only ensures the high quality of the beer, it
also frees resources to work with other things.
Using the Netbiter on other systems, it is even possible
to start and stop equipment and make adjustments to set
points and other parameters, all from the Argos dashboard.
eWON Netbiter allows Howard Town
Furthermore, the opon to produce reports via email and
get online trend graphs measuring performance over me,
makes Netbiter very useful for opmising machinery and raw
materials handling.
Brewery and Insight Control Solutions to get
statistics of system performance over time —
very useful for optimizing processes and raw
material handling.
A versatile solution
“Remote Management is extremely useful to both us and our
customers,” says Bob Haynes. “And Netbiter is a very good
soluon to make it happen. With Netbiter, we can oer our
customers online access to their equipment which is useful
for any modern operaon. We have installed Netbiter in
applicaons ranging from hotels, ood pump systems, art
storage warehouses and even a cigar humidor containing
cigars worth millions of pounds. Netbiter is simply a very
good product.”
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