Cobrix 5. Intelligent Control Solutions for Beverage Production

Cobrix 5 Intelligent Control Solutions for Beverage Production

Cobrix 5 Ensures World-Class Brand Excellence Beverage manufacturers face a complex range of operating demands, from the need to comply with exacting quality standards and meet rigorous production schedules, to having to satisfy consumers changing tastes and preferences. While traditional methods for monitoring and controlling production can often take up to 30 minutes or more, global competition and everincreasing costs require greater production flexibility and efficiency. The key to managing your brand s success lies in improving throughput and quality. Now, with Cobrix 5, product quality is continuously under control. Seamless quality control Cobrix 5 provides continuous measurement of all your product parameters to ensure your process runs like clockwork. Control limits are easily set up for individual products and when measured values fall outside their acceptable range, an audible alarm and visual alert are triggered, letting you make the necessary adjustments. Downtime, wasted raw ingredients and unusable product are all minimized. The system also provides insight into equipment issues, such as the need for recalibration and periodic maintenance. Quick startup Powerful, easy and versatile Cobrix 5 sensors install at the blender or filler, with the evaluation unit mounted in a nearby, accessible location. Both inline and bypass models are ideal for the stable, hygienic production of beer, wine, cider, FABs, juice, soft drinks, diet drinks, tea and other beverages. Multiple parameters and beverages Cobrix 5 measures a wide variety of parameters, including Brix, % Diet or TA, CO 2, alcohol, sugar inversion, original extract and more. These measurements are provided for soft drinks, juices, beers, FABs and other beverages. Cobrix 5 monitors critical quality parameters immediately from the beginning of your production runs. This accelerates startup times, speeds up product changeovers and reduces the need for laboratory measurements. Saves costs Cobrix 5 saves you time and costs as it continuously monitors and measures your production values. Syrup yield is optimized, manual measurements are minimized and outof-spec values are avoided all at an exceptionally low cost of ownership and a typical payback of less than one year.

Expand Control with Davis 5 for Unparalleled Ease of Operation Cobrix 5 sensors connect via Ethernet to PCs throughout your organization to seamlessly integrate with Anton Paar s Davis 5 software control system. Based on open client/server architecture, the system stores production data on your server and enables it to be displayed simultaneously on multiple PCs throughout your enterprise network. Access rights are controlled via the system s integrated user management feature. An active window displaying real-time values and graphical trends can be viewed on a remote screen anywhere in the production environment or laboratory. Production starts/stops, out-of-range values, trends, statistics and more can be viewed, downloaded and printed at any time. Values can be checked, configurations changed and production can be stopped, whenever necessary, directly from the desktop. Product-specific settings Production settings, limits and alarms/alerts are easily specified for individual products. Whenever measured values fall outside the acceptable range, Davis 5 highlights them by changing the screen s background color. Your team is quickly alerted and able to make the necessary adjustments. As an extra measure of protection, an audible alarm is also activated on the PC. Calibration and adjustment Davis 5 helps you save time during routine operations by automatically comparing the process results with laboratory reference values. Calibration and adjustment are user-friendly and integrated with an automatic analysis function that eliminates human error. You can easily recognize drifts and other process inefficiencies and correct them on the fly. Display trends and statistics Cobrix 5 is constructed according to EHEDG guidelines and is cleaned by standard CIP routines. Powerful reporting Davis 5 automates report generation according to your requirements. Users can transfer data to LIMS or send e-reports to a smartphone, tablet or PC. Statistical reports can be viewed in XML or PDF formats so they are easily readable by your corporate quality management system. The reports are accessible after each batch is run or at a specific time of day for your convenience.

Features and Benefits at a Glance Continuous product quality control Shortened startup times and streamlined product changeovers Avoids out-of-spec production Suitable for a broad range of process environments Robust analytics for a wide variety of beverage types: Soft drinks Diet soft drinks Soft drinks with sugar inversion Beer Beer mix drinks Wine Flavored alcoholic beverages (FABs) Cider Liqueur Mineral water Captures and records all process data in real-time Remote operation, maintenance and diagnostics Product-specific target limits and alarms Automated calibration and adjustment Traceable documentation for all line stops and adjustments Concise statistical evaluation of line performance Data transfer to LIMS and automatic reporting

Multiple Beverages, Multiple Parameters Cobrix 5 provides these and other key parameters that give you total control over your production runs: Brix: A high-accuracy U-tube density meter is used to determine Brix concentrations. The meter is similar to Anton Paar s PBA-SI (Packaged Beverage Analyzer for Soft Drinks with Inversion) laboratory solution. % Diet or ml NaOH or g/l TA: Density measurement is the best choice for determining diet drink concentrations. Combined with fast and highly accurate CO 2 measurements, immediate Diet concentration changes can be recognized, even under adverse process conditions. To enhance startup times for high-volume production on older blending systems, color has also proven to be an excellent parameter to combine with density. CO 2 analysis: The built-in CO 2 sensor is based on the industry-leading volume expansion method, providing the fastest and most accurate measurement technology on the market, free of the effects of other gases. Sugar inversion measurement: For soft drinks which undergo sugar inversion, Anton Paar provides a unique solution using density and sound velocity measurements to automatically correct and determine Fresh Brix, Inverted Brix and Actual Brix. Alcohol: The industry standard for measuring alcohol concentration in beers, wines, FABs, ciders and other beverages. By using density and sound velocity measurement, parameters such as specific gravity, original extract, real extract, apparent extract and degree of fermentation, to name a few, are determined. Optional parameters Cobrix 5 is expandable and integrates easily with additional sensors, including oxygen, conductivity, color, turbidity and more.

Technical Specifications Sugared soft drinks Sugar concentration 0 Brix to 50 Brix 0 Brix to 15 Brix for products with sugar inversion Temperature 0 C to +80 C 0 C to +25 C for products with sugar inversion Diet drinks Concentration 0 % to 150 % of target Temperature 0 C to +25 C FABs (alcopops) Alcohol 0 % w/w to 16 % w/w (% weight/weight) 0 % v/v to 20 % v/v (% volume/volume at 20 C) Sugar concentration 0 Brix to 20 Brix Temperature 0 C to +25 C Beer Alcohol Real extract Original extract 0 % w/w to 12 % w/w (% weight/weight) 0 % v/v to 15 % v/v (% volume/volume at 20 C) 0 Plato to 12 Plato 0 Plato to 35 Plato Temperature -3 C to +25 C Wine Alcohol Extract 0 % w/w to 16 % w/w (% weight/weight) 0 % v/v to 20 % v/v (% volume/volume at 20 C) 0 % w/w to 10 % w/w Temperature 0 C to +25 C CO 2 concentration Carbo 510 Temperature -5 C to +60 C 0 Volumes to 10 Volumes/0 g/l to 20 g/l Accuracy* Soft drinks: < 0.02 Brix Diet drinks: < 1 % FABs (alcopops): Alcohol: 0.04 % w/w Extract/sugar: 0.04 % w/w CO 2 : 0.025 Vol. (0.05 g/l) * Standard values after product-specific adjustment and under stable process conditions CIP/SIP Line pressure Degree of protection Power supply Power consumption mpds 5 fieldbus board (optional) 120 C for max. 30 min CIP max. 10 bar (145 psi) IP 65 (sensors), IP 54 (mpds 5 evaluation unit) SELV 24 VDC 100 W PROFIBUS DP PROFINET IO EtherNet/IP Modbus TCP DeviceNet