Contract manufacturing provides a wealth of benefits for those who use it, but how do you know which company with whom to partner?
One way to decide on a contract manufacturer is to find what types of services they provide.
Here, you’ll find the most common types of contract manufacturing services described in detail.
Beyond that, we’ll take a look at how to determine which company to choose based on the services they provide. [Read more…]
Many companies don’t depend on in-house resources to handle all of their processes, especially those that require highly specialized expertise. The fabrication of industrial equipment is one such process.
Companies such as breweries, food processing plants, furniture manufacturers, and so forth typically don’t build their own equipment. Instead, they rely on contract manufacturing companies to handle equipment fabrication.
As an American-made contract manufacturing company, we believe in promoting and supporting businesses who choose to stay homebound when it comes to production and manufacturing of products, creating jobs within local communities and allowing growth where it matters most.
Our list of top contract manufacturers for 2018 allows you to find what you need, when you need it, without compromising on quality.
Breweries can vary enormously in size, from the smallest microbrewery to the largest multinational brewing corporation. The diversity of processes is likewise diverse, being largely dependent on the type of beer produced and the degree of automation desired.
For example, a larger brewery is more likely to be composed of distinct sections such that each is dedicated to a specific phase of the brewing process.
At the other extreme, a microbrewery is more likely to consist of a single room, where the entire brewing process is performed.
Despite the great difference in size, however, much of the brewing process has remained essentially unchanged, as it’s dictated by relatively simple biochemical processes.
A microbrewery, or craft brewery, is typically owned independently and much smaller than the corporate breweries that produce most of the beer appearing in bars and retail shelves.
However, this distinction has become blurred in recent years as major brewers have created some very large “craft breweries.” [Read more…]
We are excited to be working with Dustin and his team at Dockery’s Brewery and Restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina to bring a very unique and powerful electric brewhouse to the public. This 10,000 square-foot brewpub is expected to have a family-friendly atmosphere and will be a very nice addition to the Daniel Island community.
Full-service fabricator SMT’s 10BBL indirect fire & electric solution will let Elst Beer brew its liquid gold.
Principals of Knoxville’s (Tenn.) newly established Elst Brewing Co. — founded in 2017 to “create fine beers that speak to people with an obsession for beer” ― believe the brewhouse is the heart of a brewery. So when they considered which company to enlist to get the exciting enterprise off the ground they quite fittingly selected the equivalent of the heart surgeons of the brewery world ― Ridgeway, Va.-based Smart Machine Technologies’ (SMT) Brewery Solutions.
We chose SMT because of their ability to work with us on custom specs for the brewhouse and they are located close by. The brewhouse is being manufactured to fit the best layout for our space. Our mash tun will give us the flexibility to mash at different temperatures throughout the mashing process. This is a technique that is used in traditional Belgian brewing and we feel that it is an important feature for the brewhouse.
Source: Elst Blog Post
SMT recently partnered with Rockwell Automation to design a fully automated brewery that utilizes the latest graphics, touch-screen and mobile technology available.
Schulz Brau Brewing Company decided to expand brewing operations at their Tennessee facility and wanted a system that could allow easy replication of their recipes while maintaining consistency from one batch to the next.
There’s a lot that can go wrong between the design phase of building a microbrewery and the first sip to hit a customer’s lips. Brewing a batch of beer requires many steps, exact portions, precise timing, and a scientific approach that borders obsession. Tweak one small thing and the process, and everything goes wrong.
Both tunnel pasteurizers and flash pasteurization are effective methods for pasteurizing liquids. The primary difference between these two pasteurization methods is that during flash pasteurization, only the product gets pasteurized, not the package, and during tunnel pasteurization, both the package and the product get pasteurized.
There are quite a few factors that might impact your decision to pick one process or the other, but ultimately the best pasteurization method will depend on your product, operation, needs, goals, etc. However, in this article, we’ll dive a bit deeper into the differences between these two pasteurization process to help you decide what’s right for your commercial brewing operation.
When a manufacturing client comes to a fabrication shop looking for equipment, generally speaking, they may or may not already have exact specifications for the item they need fabricated. If they only have a general idea of what they need, they’re probably hoping to utilize engineers provided by the fabrication shop to help come up with an appropriate solution.
Smart Machine Technologies has a staff of on-site engineers capable of handling build to print fabrication, design & spec fabrication, and completely custom designed fabrication. In this blog, we’ll discuss how these options differ, as well as how to select the option that’s most appropriate for the equipment you need.
Contract manufacturing provides a wealth of benefits for those who use it, but how do you know which company with whom to partner? One way to decide on a contract manufacturer is … Read More
Many companies don’t depend on in-house resources to handle all of their processes, especially those that require highly specialized expertise. The fabrication of industrial … Read More
As an American-made contract manufacturing company, we believe in promoting and supporting businesses who choose to stay homebound when it comes to production and manufacturing of … Read More
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