PLAATO INSIGHTS
Your production data lives in six places. Your answers should live in one.
There are control systems for each process, but never one for all. Quality data lives in spreadsheets or BI, maintenance in another system. All of it is real, useful data, it's just that no single person can see all of it at once. PLAATO connects every one of those systems, structures the data around your actual batches and equipment, and gives everyone the same place to look for the answer.
350+ customers in 38 countries have
grown their business with PLAATO
One view, from grain to glass.
A batch fails its diacetyl test. Today, that means quality looping in brewing and digging through old, disconnected systems to find where it went wrong, often taking days. With PLAATO, every stage from grain to glass sits in one view, so anyone on the team can trace the batch back to the exact step, sample, or setpoint that caused it, in minutes. No video replay to scrub through, just data laid out clearly enough that the answer finds itself.
Downtime control.
When a motor needs more amperage to hold the same speed, something's already changed, a blockage, worn bearings, or friction building up somewhere in the line. PLAATO watches these performance indicators continuously and flags the drift the moment it moves outside the normal range for that asset, so your team can inspect it and plan the fix, instead of finding out when production stops mid-run."
How it works
How PLAATO Insights connects the dots
PLAATO connects to the systems you already run, brings your data into one contextualized store, and puts dashboards and a copilot on top. Read-only and outbound, so we never write back.
Vendor-neutral
Works with what you already run.
PLAATO connects to your existing equipment and systems, read-only and outbound, using the protocols your plant already speaks.
Key areas PLAATO can help with
Avoid issues before they grow, catch anomalies instantly, and reduce manual work through automated, intelligent data tracking.
Cut Spend On Utilities
PLAATO tracks the equipment behind your biggest utility costs, air compressors, cooling systems, CO2 recovery, against its own baseline, and flags it the moment something drifts. Not a fixed threshold, but a change in how that asset normally behaves.
Take air compressors, one of the biggest motor-driven loads in most breweries. Off-hours pressure decay during nights, weekends, or any no-production window is almost always leaks. A rising loaded-versus-unloaded run time ratio, or climbing filter and dryer differential pressure, flags energy waste and upcoming maintenance before either shows up in the numbers you already track.
Maximize Yield and Minimise Waste
PLAATO pinpoints the optimal timing for each stage, detects process stalls or slowdowns, and continuously fine-tunes operations to improve yield and reduce losses.
Unified production view
One record, instead of five systems that don't talk to each other.
PLAATO pulls together the systems that today only see their own corner of the brewery, brewhouse, cellar, packaging, utilities, quality, into a single operational view. Not a dashboard bolted on top of everything, but one record everyone can trust.
Take a batch that needs tracing, whether it's a customer complaint, a failed spec, or a routine audit. Today that means pulling data from the brewhouse control system, the cellar system, packaging records, and a QA spreadsheet, and lining them up by hand, batch by batch. With PLAATO, that batch's full history, from mash-in to packaging, sits in one view, so tracing it takes minutes instead of a multi-system hunt.
What it looks like
Four things PLAATO Insights will give you.
All your data in one place
A single time-stamped record of your production, stored for the long term, that replaces the scatter of separate systems.
Easy to read visualizations
A live view of your whole floor and tank farm, and dashboards your team can build and adjust without a consultant.
Analytics in plain language
Ask a question in plain words, get an answer, and turn it into a metric or a dashboard in seconds.
Know the moment something is off
Because we track the status of every asset and the ideal range for each batch, PLAATO can alert you or your team the moment something is off, whether it is a stuck valve, a faulty glycol system, or an underpitched fermentation.
Built for reality
Built for how breweries actually run.
Keeps up as you change
Tanks get repurposed, recipes get revised, sensors get swapped. PLAATO keeps your data reliable and meaningful as the brewery evolves.
One record, many uses
The same contextualized data feeds your dashboards, alerts, reports, and the copilot, across the whole facility.
Useful today, ready for tomorrow
Clear for your team to use now, and structured so AI can add more on top over time.
Why PLAATO
Built to earn a skeptic's trust.
Built for breweries, not manufacturing in general.
We didn't build a generic manufacturing platform and hope it would translate. Every feature is built around the problems breweries face on the production floor every day, from the brewhouse to the cellar to packaging.
Read-only, one way in
PLAATO sits on top of your PLCs, control system, MES, and ERP and reads from them. We never write back, and there is nothing to rip out.
Priced to pay for itself
PLAATO pays for itself, and we offer cost effective ways to prove our value, so that you can make a confident decision to partner with PLAATO.
You own your data
Your production data stays yours. We process it to run the service, never sell it, and keep it secure. See our Trust Center.
What customers are saying about PLAATO
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![Family run business Tessellar Brewing Sander Diks brewmaster states PLAATO has become our 24/7 surveillance system]()
“PLAATO has become our 24/7 Surveillance System”
Tessellar Brewing: Sander Diks - Brewmaster
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![Cheboygan Team Joshua Schiefer Production Manager with beers together taking action at the right time with PLAATO system]()
“Taking the right actions at the right time means we can guarantee quality and consistency, and that makes it that bit better and more professional.”
Cheboygan: Joshua Schiefer - Production Manager
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![Quantok Brewery Daniel Enticott Lead Brewer Happy face by using PLAATO platform in his brewery]()
“This helps us reduce tank time and alerts us if a beer steps out of temperature range. The integration with Breww is also great.”
Quantock Brewery: Daniel Enticott - Lead Brewer
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"I knew what to expect from PLAATO but I'm still more than impressed by the ease of use. We still have a somewhat analogue cooling method but I managed to get the second batch exactly where I wanted it- admittedly I should have put more sugars into that ferment as it finished a day earlier”
Jance Distillery: Lance Mizzi - Owner and Master Distiller
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![Trevor Hawman Head Brewer at Bridge 99 Brewery with hat and happy face by using PLAATO in his brewery]()
“Having the visibility means I turn my tanks off sooner and i'm promoting a much more natural carbonation, resulting in a smoother tasting beer.”
Bridge 99 Brewery: Trevor Hawman - Head Brewer
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![Gareth Burns Founder of Be Easy Brewing with drink looking happy with PLAATO in his brewery]()
“Anyone in the company can open their phone and see if its time to dry hop or if diacetyl rest is done etc”
Be Easy Brewing: Gareth Burns - Founder
★★★★★
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