Primary Process Services

Primary Process Services:

These include all services that support the processing of the actual beverage product and can include blending, pasteurizing, filtering, cooking, cooling, steeping, fermenting, carbonating, homogenizing, and a variety of packaging processes. Providence has accrued expert knowledge in all of these process areas. For more information on each of these processes, please click here.

Malt Handling Systems

Providence’s malt handling solution consists of both a pre-designed automated malt room control panel that controls a malt mill’s various motors, an integrated weigh scale, manual malt and adjunct additions, grain conveyance systems, and bulk grain silo / super sack slide gates. This solution also monitors the malt levels in each bulk grain silo and super sack system and is programmed via an operator keypad mounted in the door of the enclosure. A complete malt handing room system design includes:


  • Malt mill selection. Wet or dry mill. Single or multiple roller sets. Roller or hammer mill.
  • Grain conveyance designs – Auger, puck & chain, puck & cable, or bucket elevator.
  • Bulk grain silo selections.
  • Super sack selections.
  • Bag break station selections.
  • Grist hopper designs.
  • Automated slide gate selections.
  • Custom platform designs.
  • Malt room layout in AutoCAD.
  • Malt room equipment vendor contract negotiations – procurement.

Brewhouse Systems Design

Enterprise Brew brewhouse automation supports 2-4 brewhouse tank systems and incorporates fully integrated PLC’s and HMI’s server based human machine interface systems in Stainless steel industrial NEMA 4X enclosures. These continuous or batch-based solutions incorporates all brewhouse pumps, valves and instruments in a recipe-based manner, where times, temps, flow rates, agitation, and other various control elements are sequenced according to each batch’s master’s unique requirements. Hundreds of recipes can be created and operated either on-deck or in a control room or even on an iPad / iPhone with proper security clearance. This system can be incorporated on any beverage manufacturers production system in either a new installation or retrofit manner.

Cellar / Blending Room Systems Design

Cellar / Blending room control can either be incorporated into the SCADA or stand-alone system. In a stand-alone system, the control panel will include a simple PLC and HMI operator interface panel. In both cases, fermentation, blending, proofing and conditioning recipes can be loaded that include multiple time / temp / agitation control steps.

Product Filtration Systems Designs

This engineering service includes interviewing the beverage plant manufacturer for filtration requirement specification creation, then includes engineering the most efficient solution. Solutions can include Chemical based plate & frame filtration, centrifuges, membrane based R.O and nano-filtration systems. A complete design also includes all equipment utility verification's, (Co2, Nitrogen, water, compressed air, product, electric, steam, glycol / chilled water, and sewer). Of course, all system designs include equipment negotiations and equipment layouts in AutoCAD.

Pasteurizer System Designs

This engineering service includes interviewing the beverage plant manufacturer for pasteurization / heat treatment requirement specification creation, then includes engineering the most efficient solution. Solutions can include vat, skidded tube based time & temp pasteurizers, tunnel pasteurizers, UV or even chemical based pasteurizers. A complete design also includes all equipment utility verifications. Final system designs include equipment negotiations and equipment layouts in AutoCAD.

Clean In Place, (CIP Skids)

This engineering service includes interviewing the beverage plant manufacturer for equipment sanitation requirement specification creation, then includes engineering the most efficient solution. Solutions can include 1, 2, 3 and 4 tank skidded systems with either semi-automation or full automation based on CIP recipes and custom distribution panel designs. A complete design also includes all equipment utility verifications. A more detailed design can also include discussions with your chemical supplier on proper dosing levels and dosing pumps, along with CIP temps and times and stainless piping systems for both supply and CIP return lines. Final system designs include equipment negotiations and equipment layouts in AutoCAD.

Packaging Systems Design

Providence has designed and installed many packaging lines that support a wide variety of beverage products over the past 30 years including craft beer, distilled spirits, dairy liquids, RTD’s, dairy liquids, seltzers, water, flavored sparkling water and many other beverage types. These system designs all begin with a customer interview, where key performance data like line speeds, packaging media, oxygen pick-up, carbonation levels, fill height verification, seam and seal integrity, CIP, floor space, utility requirements and other key design elements are all discussed. Providence then incorporates this data into a packaging line design specification which is then converted into a complete packaging line equipment layout drawing and vendor equipment specification. Contracts are then negotiated, and budgets are set along with a project schedule. Key packaging line design equipment selection considerations include:


  • Bottling Lines – Depalitizers, accumulation conveyors, bottle labelers, Label date code printers, bottle pre-fill washers, bottle fillers, bottle crowners or twist on cappers, post fill rinsers, fill height instruments, transport conveyors, conveyor automation, carrier and case erectors, carrier fillers, case packers, case date coders, case palletizers, conveyor lubrication systems, etc.
  • Canning Lines – Depalitizers, accumulation conveyors, can date code printers, bottle pre-fill washers (deionized air or sanitized water), can fillers, can seamers, post fill rinsers, post fill dryers, can inspection instruments, transport conveyors, conveyor automation, can ringers, can sleever systems, carton erectors – fillers, tray formers & packers, case date coders, case shrink wrappers a& palletizers, etc.
  • Kegging Lines – Kegging lines are much less complicated than bottling and can lines and consists of either manual or semi-automated one and two station keg washer / fillers. Highly automated rotary keg fillers are also available as a possible design solution.
  • Platform Designs – Many can lines and some bottling lines may require multi-level working platforms as part of the system design. Providence offers this custom platform design and fabrication project management service by working with each equipment supplier to make sure all product transfer point elevations are strictly adhered to. Platform designs are modular in nature and can be constructed out of mild steel or stainless steel.


Cooler / Freezer Systems Design

Most beverage manufacturers typically require their finished product be stored in large product coolers or in some cases, smaller serving room coolers or both. Providence can design and oversee the turn-key installation of coolers that range in size from small 10’ X 15’ to as large as entire warehouses. Cooler designs include box sizes, evaporator and condenser sizing, large fork truck and manual entry door placement, protection and door types, lighting, floor composition and cooler perimeter condensation abatement provisions.

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