How brewers can use tech to plan around tank resource constraints

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No matter the size of the brewery operation, there is no way to get around the importance of scheduling tanks efficiently. Each stage of the brewing process is time-sensitive and must be properly scheduled to maintain proper specifications for beer recipes and to prevent late or unfulfilled delivery orders.

Large-scale brewers, or macro-brewers, who produce millions of hectoliters of beer annually, use dedicated tanks for maturation, storage, and filtration—but these tanks must be emptied and cleaned for the next batch to come through the brewing process.

Micro-brewers, or craft brewers, who produce six million barrels of beer (or less) annually, may only have one or two tanks in their breweries, which makes tank scheduling critical. These tanks must be used universally for all stages of production. The challenge for micro-breweries is to make sure they have the right tank available when it is needed downstream (such as for filtered beer).

How Infor Production Scheduling can help

For breweries of all sizes, efficiently scheduling tanks creates a challenging manufacturing environment where everything from variable flow rates and floating bottlenecks to constraints around fermentation, maturation, product-dependent filtration, and filling are practically impossible to optimize while using only manual methods.

Infor Production Scheduling is a constraint-based scheduling software solution that addresses the brewing industry's unique challenge of managing the capacity of brewery tanks—and the flow of product between them. It enables brewers to automatically create the optimal production schedule in the most efficient, timely, and profitable manner to keep their operations free from bottlenecks.

Plan for success with Infor Production Scheduling: