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How Vapour can help you

In a distillery, efficiency and accuracy are essential for smooth production, and Vapour makes managing spirit production effortless. With an intuitive, user-friendly interface, operators can easily follow pre-defined recipes, ensuring consistency and quality without navigating complex systems. This flexibility allows operators to focus on maintaining production standards rather than spending time on administrative tasks or manual tracking.

Recipe management is streamlined with Vapour’s clear, step-by-step instructions for each product stream, guiding operators through every stage—from grain bills and fermentation parameters to distillation processes. With pre-defined recipes readily accessible, operators can ensure the spirit is produced exactly as intended, minimising the risk of errors and ensuring quality every time.

Features such as spirit accounting for weekly finals and in-built dip tables further enhance efficiency. Vapour automatically tracks spirit volumes and movement across spirit vessels or vats, reducing the need for manual calculations and allowing operators to focus on production. The dip tables provide accurate volume measurements, improving inventory management and preventing discrepancies.

Additionally, spirit temperature correction ensures accurate alcohol strength readings without requiring operators to manually apply correction factors by looking up books of spreadsheets. This feature saves valuable time and eliminates the chance of human error when measuring ABVs and LPAs, helping the distillery maintain precision throughout the production process.

Overall, Vapour simplifies distillery operations by saving time, reducing errors, and improving accuracy, making it an invaluable tool for operators seeking a more efficient and effective production process.

Get in touch if you’d like to discuss how Vapour can help you in your role.

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Key Vapour Features

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Save time with in-built calculators

Vapour’s in-built calculators take the guesswork out of key distillery processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency at every stage. From alcohol strength reduction to batch yield calculations, Vapour automates complex formulas, eliminating manual errors and saving valuable time. Operators can instantly calculate the water required for reductions, track ingredient usage, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. These tools are seamlessly integrated into the platform, allowing real-time adjustments and precise record-keeping. By reducing reliance on external spreadsheets or manual calculations, Vapour enhances operational accuracy and streamlines workflows, helping distilleries maintain consistency and optimise production efficiency

Ease of use

Ease of Use

Vapour is designed with distillery operators in mind, ensuring a smooth and intuitive experience for managing daily production tasks. The platform’s modern, user-friendly interface simplifies spirit tracking, work order management, and ingredient usage, reducing time spent on paperwork and manual data entry. With real-time updates and mobile access via ATEX-compliant devices, operators can capture key production data on the go, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Features like automated calculations and guided workflows streamline processes, reducing errors and boosting productivity. Vapour eliminates complexity, allowing operators to focus on their craft while maintaining full control over production activities

Production Efficiency

Production Efficiency

Say goodbye to spending hours on complex spreadsheets to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of your Mashing, Fermentation, and Distillation operations. Gain real-time insights directly from the distillery as your operators carry out their daily tasks

Traceability

Traceability

Unrivalled visibility, traceability and accessibility. For distillers, for cask managers, for bottlers, for investors. Every action in Vapour has a detailed audit trail to support your compliance or quality management needs

Production Issue Management

Production Issue Management

We know Spirit Production can be disrupted by breakdowns and other issues. Vapour's issue recording allows you to record instances of downtime linked to a process, such as Mashing and define a reason and duration for the downtime, allowing issue resolution tracking and root cause analysis

Raw Materials Inventory

Raw Materials Inventory

Let Vapour do the hard work for you. Automatic tracking of raw materials used during Production, such as grain, yeast & botanicals. Track dry goods and spirit inventory used during bottling and sales fulfilment of finished goods

Calculators

Calculators

Use our in-line calculators to help you focus on the task at hand, rather than be distracted to perform calculations from books or lookup charts

Tank Dips & Weekly Finals

Tank Dips & Weekly Finals

With our in-built dip chart/strapping table tools, save your operators time and improve accuracy when dipping vessels for weekly spirit accounting

Reductions

Reductions

Perform alcohol strength reductions with your Vapour-enabled device in your hand, allowing you to accurately calculate the required water in real-time, eliminating human error and the need for handwritten calculations

Recipe Management

Recipe Management

Manage your Mash/Cook, Fermentation and Distillation recipes in a simple, easy-to-use designer tool. Guide your operators throughout the production process with pre-defined guidelines on assets, volumes, temperatures, etc. Pre-plan production or archive unused recipes to keep your production team on track

Production Week Planning

Production Week Planning

Plan your Spirit Production weeks for the year. Define your mashing and fermentation weeks and the cross-over to distillation weeks. Drive reporting and materials usage based on both calendar and mashing and production weeks

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