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Experience database | Declining beer sales and rising cost pressures are forcing breweries to rethink their strategies. When investments in new equipment are difficult to justify, it’s worth turning to an often-underestimated resource: the experiential knowledge of the company’s own workforce – wisely leveraged with the support of artificial intelligence.
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Glass stability | The Lavasonic bottle washer enables highly efficient, flexible and resource-saving cleaning, not least through the use of ultrasonic technology. It has been developed to meet the increasing demands for sustainability, energy efficiency and cleaning quality.
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Wear and tear | Two factors influence wear and tear on returnable bottles, also referred to as scuffing: mechanical and chemical stress on the glass. It takes a combination of these two factors to generate the typical friction rings above and below the bottle’s label panel. This article explains the role that cleaning parameters play in this context.
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The VDMA document no. 01 “Methods for the determination of residual peroxide in packaging - Test procedures” from the VDMA Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association has been completely revised and is now available for free download in German and English. It explains test procedures for methods for the determination of residual peroxide in packaging.
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Fixed bed adsorber | The idea of applying established adsorber technology from the field of biotechnology in the brewing industry for beer stabilization was the inspiration behind CSS (Controlled Stabilization System). This technology has the potential to fundamentally change how beer is stabilized. At the core of the system is a fixed bed adsorber. The bed possesses a defined volume and is placed under pressure in a column.
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Compact system | Retrofitting a modern empty bottle inspector is also possible for small and medium-sized companies with limited space. For lower outputs of up to 36,000 bottles per hour, Heuft has developed a space-saving inspector that fits into just one square meter, as is the case at the Raab private brewery in Hofheim, Lower Franconia, Germany.
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Predictive failure prevention | Do you want to hedge your bets and hit the jackpot? Then maybe you should consider making use of a tool from the extensive quality management toolbox: FMEA. Failure mode and effects analysis is now slightly out of fashion and, as far as we know, barely used in the beverage industry – if indeed at all. If you study it in greater depth, however, you soon realise its potential.
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Quality control | AI, or artificial intelligence – this buzzword is currently being discussed in many contexts. Opinions range from outright rejection to the expectation that AI will do everything better. In fact, it has been observed in many discussions that this complex topic is often only considered in general terms, and the specific details are frequently ignored. Therefore, we will try to take a closer look at the topic for applications of automatic quality control during beverage filling, in particular for empty bottle inspection.
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Resource efficiency | Aside from a few select beer styles (such as Kellerbier or most wheat beers), clarity and brilliance are essential quality parameters for clear-filtered beer. Moreover, consumers expect the beer to not change within its suggested shelf life. Beer clarification and stabilization are necessary to meet these requirements.
Cleaning/Disinfection
Contamination | Hygiene deficiencies on filling systems are usually a home-made problem. Even if this sounds like an extremely simple statement to make, nevertheless it’s a fact. But why is this so? And why do quality controllers today often not identify the weak points at their own plant? This requires some explanation, for it’s not for lack of suitable training.
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Returnable glass line | The Paulaner Brewery Group has upsized its filling capacity in 2022 with a new returnable-glass line rated at 50 000 bottles per hour. This order, for the Munich-Langwied plant that was built eight years ago, marks Krones’ first filling technology order from Paulaner. The returnables line is as compact as they come and nevertheless offers an operator-friendly layout – on just 1400 square meters of floor space.
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