As breweries face an increasingly crowded and competitive market, brewery owners, operation managers, and technology officers are under more pressure than ever to streamline workflows, reduce inefficiencies, and drive growth. With Industry 4.0 and the race for digital transformation drawing an ever-sharper line between market winners and losers, more and more breweries are recognizing the competitive advantages of precision pasteurization monitoring technologies and scalable process solutions. 

But despite understanding that their ability to successfully scale depends on investment in automation, breweries face the risk that their technology investments will maximize their ROI. In this piece, we’ll examine the reasons behind this challenge and how to overcome it. 

Tradition — Asset or Liability?

Digital solutions for the brewing industry have largely failed to keep pace with innovations conceived by — and designed for — more tech-centric and future-forward industries. And this makes sense. Breweries, perhaps more than any other business, manufacture products that have existed for well over two millennia and have traditionally been created using manual methods. 

Unlike almost any other modern-day industry, the brewing industry has relied for its success on tried-and-true methods perfected over hundreds of years by masters of the craft. In other words, it’s one thing to design digital innovations for AI, cloud computing, and fintech — industries whose mission is to transcend the past almost entirely. Designing digital innovations for an industry whose DNA depends on staying true to its roots and preserving a time-honored tradition is quite another. But that’s not the only reason brewery monitoring software and scalable process solutions for the brewing industry have often failed to live up to their promise. 

The Trouble With Most Brewery Efficiency Tools 

Not only do digital innovations for breweries typically fail to keep pace with broader trends in digitalization, automation, machine learning, SaaS, and IoT, but they also tend to be designed in silos by industry outsiders that lack a boots-on-the-ground understanding of the full range of challenges breweries face. Due to this disconnect, the latest brewery efficiency tools have failed to deliver a complete package. For instance, these tools may offer precision accuracy but fall short of reliable real-time pasteurization monitoring. They may feature high-quality builds but be complex to adopt, operate, and maintain. They may perform flawlessly but be missing seamless integration with existing workflows. And although they may rely on the fastest, most reliable wireless protocols, they may lack turnkey device management. 

But Extant Dynamix — the leader in state-of-the-art precision pasteurization monitoring solutions designed specifically for the brewing industry —  is changing all of that with the industry’s first truly comprehensive, real-time pasteurization monitoring solution, the SCOUT + COMMANDER.

A Future-Foward Solution for Time-Honored Tradition

The SCOUT + COMMANDER is forged from decades of industry-leading experience, an elite pedigree of NASA-trained engineers, and a veteran-owned, TOPGUN mission-critical focus. Designed for unprecedented simplicity of use, it delivers a complete package that maximizes efficiency and ROI and drives growth.     

• Fuels Zero-Error Results: A scalable solution for large-scale brewing operations as well as batch and microbrew applications, SCOUT + COMMANDER delivers precise, real-time pasteurization monitoring and reporting — no guesswork, no surprises — just time-honored product perfection, batch after batch. 

• Delivers Actionable Insights With Customizable Dashboards: By converting raw data into actionable insights, breweries can make proactive decisions, make easy adjustments, and confidently count on the numbers they need that guarantee effortless compliance.

• Stands Up to Austere Conditions: High heat, extreme humidity, and non-stop production are no match for SCOUT + COMMANDER. Built with durable construction, advanced housing materials, wireless casing, and best-in-class battery charging technology, there’s zero seepage, water-bath hassles, or system downtime headaches, freeing teams to focus on revenue-generating activities.

• Fits Flawlessly Into Existing Workflows: No modular systems, adoption barriers, deployment hurdles — just a plug-and-play solution that requires virtually no training and is up and running in no time. 

• Integrates Seamlessly With QA Systems: With instant interface and continuous, automatic health checks and system updates, breweries can be assured they’re investing in a future-proof solution with 100% effectiveness.

• Provides Fast, Reliable Connection With 900 MHz protocol and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi: Instantly upload real-time temperature data to offsite or cloud storage, easily export temperature data to a base station, or quickly save measurements to local memory. 

The Premier, Complete Package

SCOUT + COMMANDER is the industry standout for comprehensive, real-time, precision pasteurization monitoring. If you’d like to learn more about how it can help your brewery bridge tradition with leading-edge technology, maximize process efficiencies, and successfully scale, get in touch with us today for a free demo.

We look forward to partnering with you!