Simulation = $uccess

Abstract

Our Senior Managers were dead serious. The project schedule was backed against the start of summer brewing.

Molson Breweries in Barrie, Ontario, Canada replaced an obsolete control system and instrumentation wiring with a state of the art PLC/ DMAC's control system. The project team faced the normal constraint of a fixed budget; the challenge was that wiring conversion and start-up had to completed within four weeks.

This paper details one of the factors, simulation, contributing to this project's overwhelming success; some of the others included an integrated project team, an innovative schedule and the use of an integrated set of real-time dynamic modelling tools, and their subsequent use in exercising and testing the DMACS operator interface, P.L.C. logic, new operating procedures and extensive operator and technician training. Conversion took three weeks and the Brewhouse achieved full production in its first week of operation.