Ensuring The Best Taste At Warsteiner Brewery

The Warsteiner Group is one of the oldest and most famous brewing enterprises in Germany. The family business, established in 1753, values both tradition and continuous innovation in marketing and technology. So, when it comes to quality assurance, they rely on Intermec technology to help ensure consistent product quality.

Besides the Warstein Brewery, which is famous well beyond the borders of Germany, the group of companies also owns the Herford Brewery, the Frankenheim Private Brewery in Düsseldorf, shares in the König Ludwig Castle Brewery in Kaltenberg and the Paderborn Brewery. In all, the Warsteiner Group consists of approximately 120 individual companies worldwide and is, therefore, one of the most successful, owner-operated brewing groups in Germany. The business, with approximately 2,200 employees, generates a turnover of 522 million euros a year and produces 460 million litres of beer.

Good is not good enough

“Our commitment to quality goes way beyond the legal requirements. We also attach great importance to fast reaction times should anything fail to meet our standards at some point,” explains Werner Mittrup, member of the management team at Warstein Brewery. And this is precisely where Warsteiner managed to achieve further optimisation thanks to the latest technology from Intermec.

With the Intermec CN70 mobile computer that is now used in quality assurance in the laboratory, production and bottling, checks are even more effective and efficient. The barcode solution they used to use offered lower overall functionality and was by comparison susceptible to input errors. It also did not allow direct feedback to the central system.

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