Control system of enterprise energy consumption in Pilsner Brewery

Pilsner Brewery is the leading brewing company in Central Europe and is the foremost producer of beer. Pilsner Brewery is the biggest Czech beer exporter as well. Its brand beer is exported to almost 50 countries all over the world.

Through its brands Pilsner Urquell, Gambrinus, Radegast, and Velkopopovicky Kozel, Plzensky Prazdroj sells more beer on the Czech market than any other company. Plzensky Prazdroj, a. s., is a member of the international group SABMiller plc, the second largest brewing company in the world. The group's flag ship for its international portfolio is the Pilsner Urquell brand.

Control system

The Czech company MCAT AUTOMATION s.r.o. implemented a new control system of enterprise energy consumption in the Pilsner Brewery.

A new control system provides monitoring and measuring of these facility parts, which contribute to the Pilsner production process:

• Electricity
• Water
• Carbon dioxyde
• Water vapour
• Air conditions

All monitored and measured facility parts are supplied by the Inmat devices. Inmat devices are connected through the Teco PLCs. All gathered data from PLCs is transferred into the Reliance SCADA/HMI system, installed on the Control System's computer for this purpose. The Reliance system also behaves as a DDE server for InSQL database where the data is stored.

Examples of visualization windows

Main power take-off overview of the Pilsner Urquell beer brand manufacturing line. The power take-off trend displays data of the last quarter. There are actual values of the power take-off, above the trend.

A visualization overview of the transferred data from the Inmat devices, used for steam extraction gauging. The red framed values indicate that there is some error in communication between the Inmat device and the Tecomat.

A visualization overview of the supply water level in two water tanks. Minimum and maximum water level can be set by the operating personnel. The water pump automatically fills or empties both water tanks according the maximum and minimum water levels, which are set by operating personnel.

The power take-offs main overview of all electric supply meters. A graphic presentation of any power take-off can be displayed by clicking on the trend icon.