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Specializing in Brew House Engineering Solutions

Smart Engineering’s Beverage and Brew Experts

San Diego’s craft brewers are changing the industry country-wide with innovation and, well, just really awesome brews. But with riotous success comes sticking points such as automation as demand increases, sustainability issues such as water conservation and energy efficiency and maintaining quality control. Based in San Diego, our brew house engineering experts (and craft beer fanatics) will take on your challenges with cost effective solutions so you can keep on brewing your masterpieces.

Automation for Craft Breweries

With automation becoming a critical component in the craft brewing industry, we often hear about brew house automation projects gone wrong.

Our experts, Rob Greiner and Lee Abercrombie, will study the basics of your design and ensure that your brewery automation project is a raging success.

By focusing on proper engineering and improving your automation systems throughout your brewhouse and cellar operations, you will successfully meet your demand in a very cost effective way.

Brew House Engineering

Rob and Lee can design cost effective systems for your brewing process, such as fluid dynamics (sizing pipes, pumps) as well as heat transfer, heat exchangers and boiler demands. And they can get the engineering right for your refrigeration demands for fermentation and flash cooling.

Call Rob Greiner, Smart Engineering Systems, now for a free consultation – (760) 213.4332
Or use our contact form here.

Engineering Solutions: Custom Motion Control System for Advanced Time Lapse Camera

Custom Motion Control System for a Panavision 65-mm High Speed Camera

Award-winning documentary filmmakers Mark Magidson and Director Ron Fricke needed a custom motion control system for an advanced high speed camera. Highly specialized engineering solutions were needed to create the breathtaking and stunning visuals for their documentary film, Samsara.

Specialized Engineering Solutions:

They came to Rob Greiner to develop a custom Motion Control System, involving both software/hardware, for their highly advanced time lapse Panavision 65-mm High Speed Camera. Over several months, using Fricke’s exacting specifications, Greiner developed and tested a custom control system that integrated hardware and software applications for seamless recording.

Rob’s engineering solutions met the demands of their unique movie-making motion control system application.

During filming, his motion control system allowed the filmmakers to create the shots, including never-before-seen time lapse shots which panned across a scene.

The 65-mm camera performed its precise time-lapse mode under exceptionally difficult conditions in 25 countries scattered across five continents.

Looking for engineering solutions for your highly specialized project?
Contact Rob now

Manufacturing Solutions: Bottle Label Orienter Inspection Machine

Process & Packaging Solution: Bottle Label Orienter Inspection Machine

We saw the need and solved the problem by designing the Bottle Label Orienter Inspection Machine. Many bulk packagers are required to package products with every label facing out for better shopper visibility.

We developed a fast and easy solution for you – our cost-effective Bottle Label Orienter Inspection Machine features optimal performance:
high speed orientation and inspection of bottle label positioning during manufacturing.

It can handle bottle speeds up to 100 BPM.

During the packaging process, the Bottle Orienter/Inspection Machine will properly orient labels outward and inspect them on any sized container:

The Bottle Label Orienter is easy to adjust during fast paced processes.

Bottles
Jars
Jugs

All while meeting your packaging speed and manufacturing requirements.

Smart Engineering Systems, Inc.

Remote Programming & System Integration