Food and Beverage Industry Notification
Application Pack
Delta Automatic Brewing
Stereoscopic Warehouse Solution
IABG Global Solution Center
December, 2022
Automatic Brewing Stereoscopic Warehouse Solution
Introduction
Traditional brewing: Moistening is required before brewing. Firstly, pour hot water at 98
℃ into the sorghum manually and stir it continuously, then place it on the ground after
it is thoroughly mixed. This process is time and effort consuming.
Automatic brewing: The automatic brewing stereoscopic warehouse and the sorghum
moistening machine are introduced to replace manual work with the machine, and store
wetted sorghum with the automatic brewing stereoscopic warehouse, saving footprint
and manpower in sorghum handling.
• Sorghum moistening machine: Pours hot water into the sorghum, stirs and soaks the
sorghum, until the previous process of putting it into the steamer.
• Stereoscopic warehouse: Can add sorghum into the hopper repeatedly for wetting
and steaming, achieving automatic dispatching and storage of hoppers.
Brewing Process
1. Adding sorghum (round 1): The sorghum is moistened with hot water for 3 times,
then soaked for 17 hours to get the raw sorghum; The sorghum is steamed and
mixed with the starter then fermented to get the prepared sorghum.
2. 2nd adding sorghum (round 2): Mix 1 part of the raw sorghum to 1 part of the
prepared sorghum and steam, add the starter and ferment to get the fermented
grain, which is then placed into the cellar.
3. Liquor extraction (round 3): Take the fermented grain out of the cellar and place it
into a hopper below the rolling cage; Meanwhile, place steamed sorghum into the
other hopper, mixed with the fermented grain at a certain mixing ratio, and distilled
by the steamer, this is called liquor extraction.
Adding
Round 1: sorghum
Steaming Airing Piling up Fermentation
2nd adding
Round 2: sorghum
Steaming Airing Piling up Fermentation
Liquor
extraction
Liquor
Round 3: Steaming
extraction
Airing Piling up Fermentation
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Application
Dedicated solution for brewing, using automatic brewing to replace the ancient manual
way of brewing:
Add sorghum → soak sorghum → store sorghum → dispatch hoppers → steam sorghum
Process
1. The front row of the stereoscopic warehouse: 5 tiers in total. 4 storage spaces on
each of the first 2 tiers, totally 8, used to store hoppers; Tier 3 and tier 4 are used to
store the conveying unit for fermented grain and sorghum; Tier 5 is a rolling cage,
used to dump the sorghum from the hopper into the conveying unit in tier 3 and tier 4;
Column 1 and column 6 are lifts.
2. The back row of the stereoscopic warehouse: 4 tiers in total. 6 storage spaces on
each tier, used to store hoppers; Each column is equipped with a left-right conveying
channel (controlled by the brushless DC motor); In addition, there is also a front-back
conveying channel and a jacking device both in column 1 and column 6, used to
transfer the hoppers to the lifts in the front row.
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Process
Brewing stereoscopic warehouse
Sorghum moistening
machine
Top rolling cage
Bottom rolling cage
Water
tank Stirring motor
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Solution Architecture
Stereoscopic warehouse architecture
Info
Ethernet
Delta Switch Delta IPC
Control
Delta PLC Delta PLC
Device
I/O
Brushless DC Cylinder
motor drive
Delta Conveyor belt
proximity
Delta inverter Delta inverter Delta inverter sensor Delta inverter
Jacking device Lifting motor Rolling cage Jacking motor
Sorghum moistening machine architecture
Control
RS485 Delta PLC I/O
Device
Thermometer Flow meter Level
Cylinder
meter
Delta
proximity
sensor
Delta servo drive Delta inverter Delta inverter Delta inverter
Rolling cage Rolling cage Stirring motor Conveyor belt
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Customer Pain Points
The traditional manual brewing is time and effort consuming, with a
large footprint and low space utilization
Cannot record data automatically, and manual recording on site is
required
Difficult to control the environment temperature, compromising the
brewing quality
Features
• Strict Automatic Control
Automatic control of the key production parameters (temperature, humidity, etc.), with a more
strict process, eliminating mistakes caused by manual operation and data recording,
improving production capacity, brewing quality, and space utilization.
• VTScada Visualized Monitoring
Real-time collection and recording of production data, centralized monitoring of the
production temperature, flow, and level, timely alarms, as well as flexible production reports,
to help managers stay informed about the production status timely.
• Save System Construction Costs
It employs the photoelectric sensor to limit the hopper dispatching position, and the brushless
DC motor to drive the conveyor belt, greatly saving construction costs.
Advantages
Higher productivity
Replace the traditional manual brewing with automatic brewing, significantly
improving productivity and saving labor costs.
Easy operation
It offers an intuitive and concise HMI interface, enables start/stop with one
click, and replaces the manual work with an automatic process; The remote
monitoring configuration allows managers to stay informed about the
production data without having to be on-site.
High integration of mechanical and electrical parts
The vertical design helps to reduce the footprint, combined with the concise
electrical architecture for user-friendly operation and simple commissioning.
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Solution Resource
Automatic Brewing Stereoscopic Warehouse Solution includes:
PDF PPT Promotion file: Automatic Brewing Stereoscopic Warehouse
Project file: Automatic Brewing Stereoscopic Warehouse
PDF Word
(Device list, wiring diagram, IO table, parameter definition)
Program Complete program: PLC AS228T
Request for resource:
Solution Contact
TEL : +86 17625751544
E-Mail : L-CN-SC@[Link]
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