How Do You Track Brewery Batches and Monitor Remotely?
Brewery Dashboard, Batch Records & Remote Monitoring
Track brewery batches by logging each step’s actual values against your recipe, plus every tank’s fermentation trend, alarms, and utility use, in one history.
ARP makes its own dashboard and monitoring platform that communicates natively with Allen-Bradley PLCs. It keeps batch history, shows live brewhouse, cellar, glycol, and utility status, compares batches, sends alerts, and supports remote support from ARP.
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Brite tanks and utilities
Layout mockup only. Bracketed fields are placeholders, not real or typical values. The amber tile shows how a deviation from your own limit would look. The dashboard is built around your tanks, sensors, and limits.
Example batch record
Example batch-record layout. Values come from your sensors and the targets you enter. It is not a regulatory record unless engineered and qualified for that use.
Records and monitoring questions, answered
How do you log brewery batch data?
Have the PLC record each recipe step’s start, end, and actual values, then store them with the batch number, recipe, and operator in ARP’s monitoring platform.
You choose what to record in the builder: volumes, temperatures, durations, hop confirmations, transfer volume, fermenter destination, and more.
Can brewery controls be remotely monitored?
Yes. ARP’s own monitoring platform communicates natively with Allen-Bradley PLCs and is connected only through an architecture your IT team approves, with authentication, role-based access, network segmentation, secure access such as a VPN, and audit logging.
Connecting a PLC to the internet does not make it secure. Remote-support boundaries are agreed in writing.
How do you monitor fermentation remotely?
Trend every tank’s temperature against its target, add pressure where measured, and alert on deviations from the limits you set.
How do you compare batches?
Overlay the recorded values of two or more batches of the same recipe, such as mash temperatures, step durations, and fermentation trends, to see where they differ.
Batch-to-batch comparison uses the history the platform already keeps.
How do you monitor brewery water usage?
Totalize brewing-water and other water flow meters and show usage per batch, day, and week.
CIP water can be tracked with the CIP cycle records.
What alerts can a brewery system send?
Fermenter temperature high or low, glycol or chiller fault, pump fault, abnormal tank pressure, sensor fault, CIP failure, an overdue batch step, and abnormal utility use.
Limits come from your entries or verified engineering data. Email or SMS delivery is offered only where the deployed architecture supports it.
The ARP dashboard and monitoring platform
Choose how far it reaches:
1. Local only
PLC + HMI. Batch data, trends, and alarms stay at the brewery.
2. Plant network
PLC/HMI + the ARP dashboard and batch history on your network, reachable from approved PCs.
3. Secure remote monitoring
The ARP monitoring platform with authorized remote dashboards, alerts, reports, and remote support, through an architecture your IT team approves.
Security assumptions ARP designs around
- Authentication for every user, with role-based access where the platform supports it
- Network segmentation between the brewery controls and business or internet networks
- VPN or other secure remote access, never an open port
- Audit logging of remote sessions and changes
- Customer IT approval before anything is connected
- Agreed remote-support boundaries: what ARP may view and what it may change
Frequently asked questions
Is a brewery batch record a regulatory record?
Not by itself. It is a production record of what the system measured. It becomes part of a regulatory or quality record only when engineered and qualified for that use.
Does the platform work with my existing Allen-Bradley PLC?
ARP’s monitoring platform communicates natively with Allen-Bradley PLCs. ARP reviews the existing program and network during engineering.
Can CIP records show up with brewery batches?
Yes, when CIP runs on the same controls. See How Do You Document and Monitor a CIP Cycle?
Talk to ARP about your brewery controls
ARP supplies the controls and automation package: the Allen-Bradley control panel, electrical design, PLC/HMI programming, instrumentation, utility and dosing pumps as selected, dashboards, drawings, FAT, and startup support as quoted. In certain applications, ARP can also provide a pump skid. Brewhouse vessels, fermenters, tanks, sanitary process piping, and mechanical skids come from you, your brewhouse manufacturer, or your fabricator, and ARP integrates with them.
Qualifying standard configurations are quoted, designed, programmed, and shipped in 7–10 business days.
Have drawings, P&IDs, panel photos, or I/O lists? Send them with your request.