Abstract
This article uses case studies to demonstrate the potential of smart manufacturing (SM) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to enhance operational performance and productivity in industry. The analysis highlights benefits such as cost reduction, production flexibility, shorter product time-to-market, energy/water efficiency and environmental impact reduction, and increased productivity. To illustrate the effectiveness of SM and IoT approaches, the authors sought out manufacturers currently implementing or seeking to implement SM and IoT technologies. The authors identified beer brewing (NAICS Code 312120) as a rapidly expanding industry whose members appear eager to implement SM technologies to optimize production lines by revealing bottlenecks and identifying performance-reducing nodes. This article presents two case studies based on SM and IoT technologies in breweries. It briefly describes a systematic framework introduced elsewhere by the authors and uses it to assess the energy productivity and competitiveness of SM applications in breweries. This article addresses questions concerning the information and communications technology infrastructure needed to build smart breweries and how corporations simplify the installation and deployment of SM and IoT components. This article was originally published in the Proceedings of the 2019 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e10064 |
| Journal | Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1 2020 |
Funding
The submitted manuscript was prepared by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is managed by UT-Battelle LLC for the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office. The authors also thank William Morrow (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Alberta Carpenter (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Eric Masanet (Northwestern University), Diane Graziano (Argonne National Laboratory), and Matthew Riddle (Argonne National Laboratory) who reviewed a draft of this article and provided valuable comments. The authors also thank Deschutes Breweries, Full Sail Brewing, Hexagon Brewing Co., and Blackberry Farm Brewery for their input to the brewery case studies.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Alberta Carpenter | |
| U.S. Department of Energy | DE-AC05-00OR22725 |
| Argonne National Laboratory | |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| UT-Battelle | |
| Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office |
Keywords
- Industry 4.0
- brewing
- energy productivity
- process industry
- smart manufacturing
