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THE COMBINATION OF OFS AND BEER30 SOFTWARE WILL BRING FULL INTEGRATION AND AUTOMATION OF ALL DATA POINTS .
become the de facto standard for filling and packingline efficiency monitoring in Australia .
It is already used by around half of Australia ’ s craft breweries including Stomping Ground and Tribe Breweries . The 5th Ingredient , founded in the craft beer capital of San Diego , has had similar success in the US with its proprietary Beer30 brewery software , which assesses data from the moment raw ingredients are purchased to when the can , bottle or keg is sold .
The 5th Ingredient has already deployed its software in more than 10 % of the Australian industry , while OFS , having recently launched in the US , has already signed its first three US breweries including Pelican Brewing Company , a leading Oregon-based craft brewery . The brewing software specialists now aim to expand their footprint across both countries ’ entire industries , at a rate of 100 breweries a year .
The software integration between Beer30 and OFS provides unmatched visibility into yield , covering losses from every step of the brewing and packing process in real time . For example , OFS could capture a series of downtimes on the filler correlating to a CO 2 quality issue captured by Beer30 , which has affected a portion of the product .
Australian manufacturing performance software company , OFS , and US ‘ grain-to-glass ’ brewery data management company , The 5th Ingredient , have signed a first-of-its-kind craft brewing partnership to help the companies expand in each other ’ s home markets to help the craft beer industry become more data driven . OFS ’ s software , which uses sensors to draw real-time data from the packing line to identify and reduce inefficiencies and waste , has
If the overall problem is related to raw ingredients , it could also identify the relevant batch and which products were affected , preventing a larger-thanneeded product recall .
Importantly , both OFS and Beer30 are viable solutions for brewers of all sizes where efficiency is seen as a must-have rather than a nice-to-have , dispelling the myth that these kinds of systems are only used and of value to large companies . Depending on the size , even 10 minutes of downtime solved could equal
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