Brewmaster
Owns recipes, the brewhouse, fermentation and carbonation windows. Approves and corrects the agents; those corrections train the models.
“Does Brewira write to our PLCs?”
Only at the autonomy stage your plant has set, and only to an explicit allow-list of low-risk loops inside documented limits. Every design partner starts in shadow mode, where Brewira predicts and writes nothing. Assist mode follows, where a brewmaster or process engineer approves each recommendation. Bounded autonomy on filling, carbonation and inspection loops comes after the food-safety and ROI gates agreed up front.
“How much data do you need before it is useful?”
The first phase is shadow mode on one line: Brewira reads your analyzers, PLC history, lab results and MES while you run the plant as usual, and we measure its predictions against your lab, QA and PLC outcomes. Recommendations start when accuracy is proven against that baseline, and improve as plant-specific history and brewmaster corrections accumulate.
Quality and food-safety manager
Owns quality and safety under HACCP, FSMA, FSSC 22000 and BRCGS, fill and seal conformance and the batch genealogy.
“What happens to food safety?”
Critical control points are not optimization variables. The pasteurization PU profile, the CIP release checks and the batch release decision stay with your HACCP plan and your people. Brewira verifies readings, writes them to an immutable audit log and attaches them to the batch genealogy. It is grounded in HACCP, FSMA, FSSC 22000 and BRCGS procedures; it is not a certification and does not replace your plan.
“Who is accountable when an agent makes a bad move?”
You are, the same as with any control strategy. That is why every write is policy-checked, bounded, logged and reversible, every output carries a citation to the recipe or procedure it relied on, and anything above your threshold waits for a named approver. The audit log records the request, the reasoning, the limits applied and the human decision.
Plant director
Owns rate, loss, giveaway, yield, water, energy and food safety, and the number that justifies the spend.
“What happens if the edge node or the network fails?”
Brewira sits above your existing automation as a supervisory layer. If it stops, the plant keeps running on its current PLC and SCADA control and the interlocks it already has. A Brewira outage degrades the plant to the way it runs today, not to a stop.
“How do we start?”
As a design partner, on one line, with one hard metric: fill giveaway and low-fill rejects, leaker and seal faults, attenuation variance and tank time, CO2 use and clarity rejects, or water and energy on pasteurization and CIP. We instrument the line in shadow mode, measure the baseline, move to assist mode when accuracy is proven, and expand only when the number holds.
These are the questions plant directors, brewmasters and quality managers ask in the first meeting, answered in full. There are no customer quotes here yet; design partners will speak for themselves when they choose to.
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