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Wine & SpiritsA Winery’s Journey to Automated Brix Monitoring with IFM Integration

January 17, 2024

A prominent California winery, known for its award-winning wines, faced operational inefficiencies with manual wine sampling, lacking the precision of an automated brix measurement system. Seeking a solution, they turned to Automation Group, an E Tech Group company, for an IFM Integration project. The goal was a seamless transition to fully automated brix monitoring, overcoming delays and potential inaccuracies associated with manual methods. Our proposed solution involved configuring IO Link Masters for Modbus TCP data retrieval, coupled with the construction of two durable NEMA 4x stainless steel enclosures housing six IO Link Masters. The customer's decision to engage Automation Group was influenced by our proven expertise in implementing solutions based on the IO Link Platform, promising a reliable and advanced automated brix measurement system to elevate their winemaking operations.

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Wine & SpiritsPLC and SCADA Upgrade Improves Red Fermentation Process for Long-Standing California Winery

March 13, 2023

Outdated controls can pose many operational challenges. Companies that operate with outdated controls often experience frequent downtime, expensive or obsolete hardware replacement parts, or few personnel with knowledge to perform maintenance on legacy systems. These challenges were faced by a long-running California winery who needed to modernize the controls for their red fermentation process. The winery needed to address how a system upgrade would impact their operations and engaged Automation Group to create a PLC and SCADA upgrade solution.

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Wine & SpiritsHVAC Controls Upgrade Enhances Efficiency and Reliability of Wine Operations

January 3, 2023

Heating and cooling technology has come a long way in recent decades. Upgrading legacy HVAC controls can be a daunting project for many businesses where downtime is simply not an option. This was a challenge faced by a California-based wine company who needed to recontrol their HVAC system in one of their largest production facilities. The original system was outdated, hard to maintain, and only supported local control. The wine company engaged Automation Group to upgrade their HVAC controls and integrate Inductive Automation’s Ignition SCADA system for improved efficiency and system reliability.

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Wine & SpiritsRed Fermenter Pump-Over Automation Yields Greater Tank Controls for California Winery

October 19, 2022

The pump-over method plays an important role in modern wine extraction and can impact the wine’s flavor, intensity, and color. For a Californian winery, their red fermenter tanks used manual pump-over technology, but it was experiencing inconsistent timing as well as limited electrical capacity to run all pumps simultaneously. For instance, each Motor Control Center (MCC) could only run 50-70% of the pumps at a time. The winery needed to upgrade to an automated pump-over system to improve monitoring and control performance, reduce maintenance costs, and support their production needs. Automation Group was engaged upgrade their existing tank controls effectively and efficiently given their expertise with similar projects in the wine industry.

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Wine & SpiritsBatch Process Solutions for Global Spirits Producer Enhanced with ISA-88 Standard

May 16, 2022

Distilled spirits have complex processing needs. To stay competitive, spirit producers often turn to batch processing and blending solutions to improve their operational agility; however, this can be compromised as their systems become outdated. This was the case for a global leader in the spirits industry who needed to update their existing blending system to better support recipe management, faster quality verification, and adaptive ingredient delivery. The global spirits leader engaged Automation Group and their industry partner Barnum Mechanical Inc. to provide a turnkey solution given their collective process design and control system integration expertise.

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Wine & SpiritsWinery Wastewater Facility SCADA Investment Advances Data Access and Control Efficiency

January 14, 2022

Wine consumption in the United States has increased annually over the past ten years. In 2020, the United States alone consumed one billion gallons of wine.[1] The increased demand for wine has amplified the need for technologies to manage wastewater treatments during the winemaking process. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems play an important role in this process by monitoring and analyzing real-time data to address system problems and keep operations running smoothly. When one of the world’s largest wineries needed to address data collection and operational issues at their wastewater facility, Automation Group was engaged to make their process more sustainable from their existing infrastructure.

Wine & SpiritsA Winery’s Journey to Automated Brix Monitoring with IFM Integration

Wine & SpiritsPLC and SCADA Upgrade Improves Red Fermentation Process for Long-Standing California Winery

Wine & SpiritsHVAC Controls Upgrade Enhances Efficiency and Reliability of Wine Operations

Wine & SpiritsRed Fermenter Pump-Over Automation Yields Greater Tank Controls for California Winery

Wine & SpiritsBatch Process Solutions for Global Spirits Producer Enhanced with ISA-88 Standard

Wine & SpiritsWinery Wastewater Facility SCADA Investment Advances Data Access and Control Efficiency

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