The Game Changers at New Belgium Brewing

“With Wonderware MES Performance Software coupled with New Belgium’s continuous improvement strategy, we have extended our packaging area capacity to about 1.3 million barrels each year.”

Joe Herrick, Packaging Systems Manager
New Belgium Brewing, Co.

Achieving Continuous Process Improvement Through Flexibility and Scalability

The flexibility and scalability of the Wonderware MES software has enabled New Belgium to customize its product packaging systems to meet its unique requirements for the efficient flow of captured production management data from the plant floor systems.

The combination of Wonderware MES Performance with the brewery’s existing installations of Wonderware System Platform and InTouch HMI provides New Belgium the opportunity to ramp up automation process as necessary.

“The model-driven approach of Wonderware System Platform gives us the ultimate platform for expansion when the customer wants to extend their MES system up, down, or sideways. With this unique scalability, we can start small without having to worry about switching to a different technology when the solution heads into uncharted territory. Application Server allows the Apex team to have a ‘can do’ attitude, regardless of the situation or industry.”
Sam Vail, chief technical officer at Apex Manufacturing Solutions.

More information

Please visit the following links if you want to know more about the Wonderware solution at New Belgium Brewing:

1. The Wonderware Food and Beverage page
2. The Wonderware Supervisory and Control page
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. New Belgium Brewing Homepage
5. New Belgium Brewing Sustainability 

Customized graphics within Wonderware MES helped Apex at New Belgium Brewing

“The ability to customize the graphics provided by the Wonderware MES enabled Apex to develop a system that could effectively communicate the line status and production capacities in the New Belgium bottling and packaging lines, while at the same time illustrate the company’s unique company culture with engaging graphics,” Vail said. “Screen data shows what order is being worked on, what is coming next, and how the current rate compares to their standard.” 

“New Belgium gave us a lot of leeway with development of the graphics to make the system engaging and fun to work with. We wanted to make sure the User Interface Experience (UIX) of this system was aligned with New Belgium’s culture, which made it very unique! Operator support is critical in any Continuous Improvement project, so the terminology and workflow needed to match their expectations, and because a real-time version of the display is seen on the public tour, we created unique InTouch graphics that were consistent with all the cool things the visitors had already seen along the way.”

More information

Please visit the following links if you want to know more about the Wonderware solution at New Belgium Brewing:

1. The Wonderware Food and Beverage page
2. The Wonderware Supervisory and Control page
3. Wonderware InTouch
4. New Belgium Brewing Homepage
5. New Belgium Brewing Sustainability 

HMI and Supervisory Control Excellence: AENA, Barcelona El Prat Airport

 We'd like to congratulate Wonderware Spain and AENA for winning the HMI and Supervisory Control Excellence category of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest. Find out why.



The gateway to the beautiful city of Barcelona is the El Prat Airport. In a typical year, over 35 million passengers and 96 thousand tons of cargo pass through the Barcelona El Prat Airport

The AENA Group is responsible for the operations of the Barcelona El-Prat Airport. AENA is one the world's top airport operators, in terms of the number of passengers handled. More than 200 million travelers pass through AENA's 46 domestic and 15 international airports.

AENA created a Smart City solution at the Barcelona El Prat Airport that boasts a dynamic, high-functioning, reliable and secure infrastructure.

With a little help from Wonderware

Shell Mobile, AL Chemical LP: Asset Excellence Winner, Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest 2014

Congratulations to Fred Wheeler of Shell Mobile, AL Chemical LP for winning the Asset Excellence category of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN Contest 2014.

Find out how.



Fred successfully implemented a Wonderware IntelaTrac solution called "Additives Inventory Management & Time management via procedures"

Chevron Changes the Game with Dynamic Simulation Software from Schneider Electric

By Trevor Ault, Automation Engineer, Chevron

Winner of the 2014 Grand Pinnacle Prize, Schneider Electric Software OPEN, Sept 2014. Find out why...

Wonderware MES Success Story: Qu Jing Tobacco Plant, a branch of the Hongyunhonghe Tobacco Group

Look beyond the industry and see what these guys are capable of doing - 3D rendered graphics to augment a complete MES solution, with track and trace, OEE, downtime monitoring using System Platform, InTouch, Historian, mobility through SmartGlance.

Wonderware MES Success Story: Qu Jing Tobacco Plant, a branch of the Hongyunhonghe Tobacco Group from Invensys Videos on Vimeo.

It's a cool application of System Platform and MES.

Schneider Electric to Name Winners of Software OPEN Contest | Automation World

The winners of the Schneider Electric Software OPEN contest will be announced tomorrow in a special awarding ceremony at the Global Customer User Conference.

“We’ve had a fairly good number of quality entries from some of our best customers,” said Jay David, Global Software marketing specialist and manager of the contest. “Winners are selected based on the impact the solution has on product quality, productivity, ROI, energy savings, customer responsiveness and faster time to market. Entries were judged by a team made up of industry experts, trade magazine editors, industry analysts and Schneider Electric executives.”

Read the full posting at the Automation World website.