Providing Turnkey Installation Services for Anheuser-Busch Bottling Facilities | Benham | Architecture, Engineering, & Designbuild Firm

Providing Turnkey Installation Services for Anheuser-Busch Bottling Facilities

Project Description

  • Client: 
    Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
  • Location: 
    Nationwide

Benham engineered, constructed, and installed state-of-the-art bottle lines for Anheuser-Busch, Inc., throughout the U.S. The installations of our 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. Our 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. Benham also developed multiple bid packages and provided construction support and start-up.

Other services provided by Benham 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

    Benham 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

        Benham 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 Benham in the U.S. and/or other countries.

        About Benham

        Our clients range from local, state and federal government agencies, to large and small private sector businesses who are striving to expand.

        We embrace each client relationship, helping them reach their goals, delivering innovative, high quality performance. The goals, expectations and needs of our clients provide the foundation for every project we accomplish together.

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