Pelican Brewing Company produces nearly 50,000 barrels of beer– equivalent to almost six million liters – every year, serving Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California. With further expansion in the works since its inception in 1996, the company makes beer on demand for its retail and consumer customers, a key element of the quality and freshness standards to which it holds itself.

And with that, the craft brewer was looking for a software solution that could provide better insights to help it identify and resolve issues, improve efficiency, and reduce waste.

“We had used other software before, but it never had the right levels of automation or any real-time data,” said Martin Bills, Director of Brewing Operations, Pelican Brewing Company. “My ears are well trained – I can tell if there’s an issue on the line, and in time I can figure out the cause.”

Bills turned to Australian manufacturing performance software company, OFS, which will be making its official debut in the United States with Pelican.

The OFS software uses sensors to draw real-time data from Pelican’s filling and packing lines and combines this with insights from the folks who operate the line to identify and reduce inefficiencies and waste. The implementation of OFS hardware and software at Pelican was completed in less than one day.

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