Whether they’re large-scale enterprises or small-batch startups, breweries of all sizes have something in common in an era of accelerating digital transformation: the need to drive cost-savings, fuel growth, and remain competitive using the latest scalable brewery monitoring solutions. At their best, these solutions are designed to help brewery owners and operation managers maximize efficiencies to successfully scale. However, when making the strategic transition from legacy tunnel systems to precision pasteurization monitoring technology, breweries often face hazards that they must exercise caution to avoid.
Scalable Solution or Trojan Horse?
The challenge for breweries seeking to deploy the latest digital technologies is that these touted “scalable” solutions can too often introduce the very inefficiencies they are intended to overcome. How can this be? How is it possible that advanced tools designed to leverage the latest in advanced technologies — automation, AI, predictive analytics, precision sensors, wireless protocols, and cloud computing — can act as a Trojan Horse, defeating the purpose of their deployment and resulting in significant sunk costs?
The answer lies in understanding the bigger picture.
Missing the Forest for the Trees
When creating an innovation designed for complex processes, the temptation is to focus on an isolated problem rather than on the entire ecosystem in which a solution will be deployed. This is essentially a case of tunnel vision, of missing the “forest” of brewery operations for the technical “trees” of pasteurization monitoring challenges.
Second- and Third-Order Effects
When innovations are designed and deployed without a comprehensive understanding of the entire ecosystem, second and third-order effects are inevitable. By definition, these effects are unintended, unforeseen, and unpredictable. As such, they become apparent only after an initial decision, action, intervention, or investment has been taken.
Hindsight Is 20/20
Even though second-order effects often occur immediately, they are visible only in hindsight. By the time these adverse consequences come to light, it is usually too late to overcome or mitigate them. And as problematic as second-order consequences can be, third-order consequences are even more confounding and disruptive. These tertiary effects unfold and reveal themselves only over extended periods — a costly, classic case of the “chickens” of poor technology investment choices coming home to roost.
The View From the Ground
In an effort to improve QA, maximize efficiencies, and drive cost savings, a brewery may make a significant investment in a dedicated solution that delivers exactly what it promises — precision pasteurization process monitoring. But what the brewery doesn’t yet know is that in solving one problem, it’s created new ones. How? As the brewery will soon discover, the innovation they have adopted presents a steep learning curve, fails to easily integrate with existing systems, is complicated to operate, expensive to maintain, and is plagued by system-update issues. Now, workflows that were intended to be streamlined are infused with friction. Processes that were intended to be simplified are more complex, inefficient, and wasteful. Effective resource management has become more difficult. In a brewery’s quest for more consistent readings and profitable numbers, their brewery’s bottom line is almost certain to be negatively impacted.
The Future of Scalable Monitoring Solutions — SCOUT + COMMANDER
From the example above, it’s easy to see that injudicious technology investments can turn out to be incredibly disruptive to profitable brewery operations. This is why it’s critical for breweries to protect their ROI by ensuring they select innovations created with the bigger picture in mind.
The SCOUT + COMMANDER is the first and only scalable brewery monitoring solution designed for seamless integration across a brewery’s entire operational ecosystem. Created by veteran-owned Extant Dynamix, the SCOUT + COMMANDER represents a marriage of industry-leading experience, NASA aerospace-inspired engineering, and TOPGUN mission-critical focus. Delivering unrivaled simplicity of adoption, deployment, and use, it ensures that breweries can confidently reap the rewards of leading-edge digital solutions — without the risks.
Plug-and-Play, Turnkey Device Management
As the industry’s most advanced plug-and-play solution, the SCOUT + COMMANDER fits seamlessly into existing workflows and QA systems. There are no modular systems and no steep learning curves — just real-time, wireless, precision pasteurization monitoring with customizable dashboards and high-visibility reporting. Reliable, accurate data provides actionable insights for maximizing efficiencies, driving cost savings, and successfully scaling. And thanks to automatic system updates and health checks, it’s a truly turnkey, future-proof solution.
Hardware Built for Heavy Lifting
SCOUT + COMMANDER stands up to whatever the shop floor can dish out. Whether it’s high heat, extreme humidity, or non-stop production, its durable construction, advanced housing materials, and wireless data transmission ensure zero seepage and flawless results. With best-in-class wireless battery-charging technology and AI-supported self-calibrating probes, it eliminates water-bath hassles and system downtime headaches. And by supporting efficient resource management across the entire operational ecosystem, breweries can be assured of the ROI that sent them on a search for solutions in the first place.
The Premier, Scalable Brewery Monitoring Solution
SCOUT + COMMANDER is the uncontested leader in wireless, real-time, precision pasteurization monitoring. If you’d like to see the winning difference it can make for your operations and ROI, get in touch with us today for a free demo.
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