CIP cleaning in breweries for enhanced dependability

Product safety begins with the cleaning procedures employed. The extensively automated production process in a brewery necessitates automated, traceable work sequences: these are crucial to ensuring full-coverage microbiological safety throughout the entire beer production process.

With its comprehensively holistic range of kit for cleaning the production zones, Krones offers harmoniously synergised concepts plus the requisite technology from a single source Krones. The VarioClean unit for CIP cleaning enables all parts of the system to be cleaned in recirculated mode, both in the beer production operation and in the bottling hall.

Salient features of Krones’ concepts for CIP cleaning:

• Compactly dimensioned, space-saving design as units that can be integrated into any spatial situation 
• High cost-efficiency, thanks to economical utilisation of water, caustic or acid resources 
• Continuous traceability for all cleaning steps, thanks to automated process stages 
• Meet all the criteria of hygienic design

All process steps in CIP cleaning are individually matched to the particular products in the brewery concerned: automated process control enables different temperatures and process steps to be specified individually for each and every product. Integrated measuring instruments ensure that all parameters are monitored, so that the cleaning steps are dependably traced in the documentation for all production conditions.