Abstract
Today, beverage production plants are planned and designed from the material-handling context as a packaged-goods production facility, not as a process plant. Therefore, a lot of potential for optimization exists. This paper presents a new approach to the design of beverage production plants according to the design of process plants. A component library for the simple creation of beverage production plant process models is developed. All steps in the plant design process can be accelerated and automated to be used for the high number of existing and new installations around the world. As first use case an energy optimization upgrade for existing Carbonated-Soft-Drink production lines is described to save cooling and heating energy in warm climates.