Providing Turnkey Installation Services for Anheuser-Busch Bottling Facilities

By bringing the right people and engineering, fabrication, installation, and systems integration services together, SAIC delivers integrated solutions to Anheuser-Busch bottling facilities.

Overview

SAIC engineered, constructed, and installed state-of-the-art bottle lines for Anheuser-Busch, Inc., throughout the U.S. The installations of SAIC’s turnkey, cutting-edge bottling lines enabled Anheuser-Busch to increase quality and efficiency while reducing costs by permitting a previous-generation line to be retired. SAIC’s comprehensive responsibilities included project definition, conceptual design, vendor expediting, equipment layout and coordination, and utility matrix. Detailed design included process and utility process and flow diagrams (P&ID), mechanical equipment arrangements, piping stress analysis, structured platforms and supports, and electrical design. SAIC also developed multiple bid packages and provided construction support and start-up.

Other services provided by SAIC include:
  • Documentation control (operations and maintenance manuals, spare parts lists, schematics and warrantees)
  • Equipment procurement expediting
  • Fabrication of control panels
  • Input/output point-to-point checkout
  • Ramp-up and performance test support
  • Construction management at risk
  • Programming standards
  • Coordination and supervision of vendor software
  • Coordination of software interlocks
  • Software development for supervisor programmable logic controller
  • Assembly bottle conveyor motor control enclosure
SAIC provided the turnkey line with the following components:
  • Bulk glass receiving and handling systems
  • Depalletizer
  • Empty bottle conveyor
  • Rinser filler block, beer module
  • Capper
  • Crown handling
  • Bottle inspection
  • Full bottle conveyors
  • Pasteurizers
  • Bottle labeling and coding
  • Multiple case packing systems, including automatic dunnage handling
  • Carton conveyor and palletizer with stretch wrapper
Other systems that we designed and/or installed to support the line include:
  • Beer piping
  • Process water piping
  • Steam piping
  • Cooling tower water
  • Power cable trays and conduits
  • Power and control wireways
  • Power and control panels
  • Instrumentation and the central soap lube system

SAIC is a national leader in all aspects of process and packaging for beverages, soft drinks and bottled water, and beer. From providing comprehensive master planning, architecture, and engineering design services through process engineering and DesignBuild℠ project delivery, we bring innovative solutions to facility expansion and modernization projects.

DesignBuild is a service mark of Science Applications International Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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