Precision brewing for flavor consistency

Consistency is a critical differentiator for global brands, and consumers expect their favorite beverage to taste the same, regardless of who made it or where it was bottled. This requires precise process control and repeatable, standard solutions that can be deployed across multiple production sites. ABB can help beverage makers achieve consistency and quality while lowering production costs and providing greater packaging flexibility.

 

ABB empowers beverage producers to standardize operations, reduce downtime, and enhance product reliability. From recipe control to filling and packaging, ABB solutions ensure every bottle meets brand expectations while optimizing resource efficiency and supporting sustainability goals.

Challenges in brewing and beverage process control

As beverage producers expand globally, they must ensure consistent quality, meet strict regulations, and operate efficiently. ABB helps overcome these challenges with advanced automation and digital solutions that deliver uniform product quality, enable compliance, and optimize performance across every plant.

Meeting stringent compliance standards

From food safety regulations to traceability and labeling laws, global compliance requirements vary widely. ABB’s integrated systems help centralize data, streamline reporting, and ensure full regulatory alignment across regions.

Ensuring consistent quality at scale

Global beverage operations must maintain uniform taste, texture, and quality across all plants. Variability in raw materials and manual processes makes this difficult. ABB offers precise control and automation for repeatable, high-quality outputs.

Beverage process control issues

Maintaining consistent taste, quality, and safety requires precise monitoring and automation. Any variation in temperature, pressure, or ingredient ratios can disrupt production and affect product standards.

How we can help you

Offering

Tailored offering for brewing and beverage

Energy-efficient drive and motor systems

Ensuring superior product quality

ABB’s high-efficiency motors and variable speed drives optimize pump operations for brewing, CIP (Clean-in-Place), and bottling, cutting energy use by up to 30% while maintaining precise flow control.

Process automation for consistent brewing

Build a smart brewery

With increased pressure on breweries around the world to improve quality, productivity and efficiency, there has never been more incentive to create smarter processes that provide solutions to reduce extract losses during the brewing process.

ABB Ability™ beermaker

Intelligent process control for breweries

Ability™ beermaker is a brewery-specific control solution to support safety and quality improvements in breweries, boost productivity and raise operational efficiency.

Temperature control

Precise heating and cooling beverage plants

Consistent temperature means consistent quality. The DCT880 temperature-controlling drive keeps coffee roasting even and efficient, reducing waste and energy costs. The ACS580 and ACS880 drives stabilize refrigeration and cooling, lowering operating costs while safeguarding product quality from brewhouse to bottling.

Laser level transmitter LLT100

Measurement made easy

The LLT100 is a high performance laser transmitter that accurately measures level, distance and position over short and long ranges. It is a non-contact, level measuring instrument designed for industrial applications and harsh environments.

Resources

Precise speed difference and balanced power consumption for decanter centrifuge

Whether you are producing juice, wine, beer or edible oil, our extensive portfolio of drives, motors and automation products are the perfect solution for your decanter.

Manufacturing Execution System for Wander AG drink maker

Wander AG, maker of the globally popular Ovomaltine (Ovaltine) and Caotina chocolate malt drinks, achieves increased efficiency and flexibility by introducing ABB’s Manufacturing Execution Solution (MES) in production processes.

Full control of Absolut availability, quality and energy efficiency

System 800xA

System 800xA put operators firmly in the driving seat when The Absolut Company selected a new control platform for its vodka distillation process. ABB system engineer Anna Åstrand, Absolut Company operator Johnny Ståhl and automation engineer Tony Knutsson like what they see. Note the large screen display in the background.

Beyond beer production: Environmental stewardship and sustainability

System 800xA

A measure of success as a business lies not only on the quality of the beer, but also on the contribution to the community and environment.

Argentine brewery upgrades active phase system

System 800xA

Today, the diversity of size and design of breweries is matched by the diversity of processes and degrees of automation.

ABB in action