Brewhouse controls on Siemens BRAUMAT, built in the USA.
A UL 508A panel shop that supports brewhouse OEMs and breweries with brewing controls design, build, upgrades and service. Think-PLC is the only Siemens BRAUMAT / SISTAR Solution Partner in the USA, and the BREW-KIT-01 console-and-panel kit puts that batch engine on your brewhouse prebuilt.
Where most automation projects start, and the rest.
Robotics, material handling, retrofits and brewhouse controls are the doors people usually come in through. Custom machines, packaging lines, process skids and CNC are the rest, and they all come out of the same engineering office, UL 508A panel shop and fabrication floor in Winston-Salem.
A prebuilt brewhouse control system. Connect your field devices and brew.
A stainless multitouch operator console and a prewired S7-1500 control panel arrive loaded with the brewery-proven BRAUMAT / SISTAR V8.2 batch engine: sequences, recipes, batch logging, trends and alarms preconfigured with starter units. Every I/O point lands on a labeled push-in terminal with the schedule printed in the door.
- Washdown ready. 304 stainless NEMA 4X console and panel, 19.5-inch PCAP multitouch with an IP69K front, sealed stainless keyboard.
- PLC-resident control. S7-1500 keeps brewing if Windows reboots; buffered PLC memory and a console UPS ride through power loss.
- Prewired I/O. ET 200SP with 32 DI, 32 DO, 8 RTD and 8 mA analog inputs, 8 AO, plus spares, on one PROFINET cable between console and panel.
- Recipes, not programming. New beers are setpoint edits in BRAUMAT; the BATCH-KIT-01 edition runs the same engine on SISTAR for reactors, blenders and CIP.
Siemens BRAUMAT / SISTAR, installed and supported by the only US partner.
BRAUMAT has brewed since the 1980s and runs brewhouses of every size worldwide. We install it, integrate it with your vessels and ancillary equipment, and train your brewers on it, and it is the same platform running at Aviator Brewing every day.
- Change a process without a programmer. Visual sequence editing in SCADA+ means brewers own their recipes.
- Runs the whole plant. Brewhouse, cellar, CIP, utilities and ancillary equipment on one all-inclusive package.
- Batch pedigree. Every vessel runs its own step program, in parallel, batch-logged, with weighed additions and dosing tolerances enforced.
- We are the experts. Installing, integrating, upgrading and training on BRAUMAT / SISTAR is what the partnership means.
Brewing controls designed and built in the USA.
Controls outsourced overseas cost more than they used to and arrive later than promised. Think-PLC gives brewhouse OEMs brewing-focused controls design and build in our own 79,000 square foot facility in North Carolina, with build rates set for cost-conscious craft customers and the engineering resources to turn a quote around within days of the RFQ.
- Responsive RFQs. Internal engineering and quoting process built for agility; finished panels delivered to your ship date.
- Affordable for microbrew customers. High-quality UL 508A panels at a price that lets your customers keep their businesses brewing for the long haul.
- Distilling too. The same panel shop delivered the UL control panel solution for an OEM’s 400 L gin still.
Antiquated controls and no drawings? We have seen it before.
Breweries lose days and weeks to control systems nobody documented. We recover the drawings, replace what is failing and leave behind an organized, supportable system, on BRAUMAT or on the platform you already run.
Legacy PLCs and HMIs replaced with S7-1500 and current HMI, cut over between brews.
Upgrades & retrofits →As-built schematics, I/O lists and program backups delivered with every upgrade.
Remote and on-site support, spares and scheduled maintenance from the team that built the panel.
Support →Brewer and maintenance training on BRAUMAT and on the panel, plus PLC courses at our training center.
Training →Built to the standard, partnered with the vendors.
What partners say.
For the most part, if it’s a random project out there I’m calling Bobby… I know that if Bobby works on the project, it’s going to be done and it will be done right.
Ed MontgomeryFood & Beverage Industry Manager, SiemensYou guys have this insight that a typical panel building shop that’s just building panels and going off of a set of prints, for the most part, they don’t have design capabilities and the product knowledge. But you guys have that and it’s a big strength that we look for in a cabinet shop.
Conan StoehrSolutions Partner Manager, SiemensTalk to our team about your brewhouse.
OEM panels, BREW-KIT-01, upgrades and support from the only BRAUMAT / SISTAR partner in the USA.
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