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Distillery automation
Consistent spirit, safe handling of ethanol, and production records that hold up to excise reporting and audits.
Where control matters in a distillery
- Grain handling and cooking. Milling, mash bills by recipe, cook and conversion temperature profiles, and enzyme additions.
- Fermentation. Fermenter temperature control, yeast addition and monitoring, tracked per batch.
- Distillation. Column and pot-still control: steam, reflux, temperature and pressure profiles, and cut points. This is where consistency and energy use are decided.
- Proofing and blending. Dilution to target proof and blend recipes, with gauging data recorded.
- Storage and transfers. Tank farm inventory and transfers recorded for production and excise reporting.
- Utilities and by-products. Steam, cooling water and stillage handling.
Design points we pay attention to
- Hazardous locations. Ethanol vapor areas need correctly classified electrical equipment, enclosures and wiring methods. We design panels and field devices to the area classification your engineer or insurer establishes.
- Separation of safety functions. Critical safety interlocks are engineered as distinct, documented functions, not buried in the general control logic.
- Records. Batch reports and transfer records structured to support your production reporting. Traceability →
- Recipe flexibility. Many mash bills and products on shared equipment, managed as ISA-88 recipes. Batch control →