Unlock Smart Brewing with PLAATO Insights

Plaato Insights connects directly to your brewery’s PLCs through an industrial gateway, giving you real-time and historical data in one powerful platform. From bottlenecks to breakdowns, it delivers the insights that matter
so you can grow with confidence.

Brew with Vision.
Grow with Confidence.

Running a 35,000 hL brewery means managing people, equipment, and processes — all while planning for growth. Plaato Insights gives you the operational visibility to do both.

95% of brewery data in one centralized platform

No more spreadsheets or scattered logs.

80% faster reporting and compliance readiness

Automated data collection streamlines audits and traceability.

100% improvement in cross-team visibility

Production, QC, and management all access the same live data.

Key Capabilities

  • Operational Visibility

    Track real-time and historical data across your brewhouse, fermentation cellar, packaging line, and utilities — all in one place.

  • Bottleneck Detection

    Automatically identify slowdowns and inefficiencies in your production flow

  • Predictive Maintenance

    Catch failure patterns early and reduce unplanned downtime with data-driven diagnostics.

  • Custom Dashboards

    Align your data with key performance indicators (KPIs) through intuitive, brewery-specific dashboards.

  • Insights that power growth

    Whether you want to increase throughput, reduce waste, or prevent equipment issues, Plaato Insights gives you the data and tools to make it happen.

Built for growing breweries

Whether you're managing 10 fermenters or 50, Plaato Insights scales with your operation. It’s designed to support modern, mid-sized breweries that need:

  • A unified view across systems and departments

  • Reliable data to support decision-making

  • A foundation for continuous improvement

All your data in one place

All sensor and PLC data is logged, organized, and archived for audits, traceability, and trend analysis.

How it works

  1. Install the Plaato Industrial Gateway

  2. Connect your PLCs via Modbus, OPC-UA, or Siemens protocols

  3. Map your process tags to brewing operations

  4. Visualize live and historical data in a cloud dashboard

  5. Extract insights to drive efficiency and reliability

What brewers are saying

  • Head brewer at Beer Tree Brewing Co adding yeast into batch using PLAATO to monitor fermentation

    Cut costs

    “The inactive fermentation notifications have been a huge saving in money for yeast and time.”
    Beer Tree Brew Co: Matthew Pullen

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  • Production manager and head brewer at Fell Brewery brewing beer with PLAATO Pro in their fermentation tanks

    Increase efficiency

    “Tank residency time has been reduced by around one day per batch on average.”
    Fell Brewery: Tim Bloomer

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  • Cheboygan brewing looking happy in their brewery with PLAATO Pro

    Improve quality

    “Taking the right actions at the right time means we can guarantee quality and consistency.”
    Cheboygan brewing: Joshua Schiefer

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