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Every drop counts! – optimize your process efficiency with Flow Control

13 Jun 2025

New Whitepaper: How can reliable, precise, and demand-driven flow control in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries help you optimize processes, ensure product quality, and save costs and resources?

Precise flow measurement is the basis for safe and efficient processes in almost all applications in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. But when is which measurement technology suitable: flow meter, flow switch, magnetic-inductive, Coriolis/density measurement, turbine, PMO-approved, ultrasonic, calorimetric?
In this white paper, we present various measurement technologies and give you tips on how to find the best solution for your application.

Flow meters are used for the precise detection of the quantity or volume of media flowing in your systems, and are the basis for the automation, control, and monitoring of many processes.

Typical applications are

• Precise dosing when blending beverages, dairy or life science products
• Recipe monitoring in food and beverage or in pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Monitoring manufacturing processes in production or CIP systems
• High-precision control of filling systems for kegs, vessels or transport vehicles
• Precise quantity measurement for customs declarations or billing.

Flow switches are used in almost all production facilities to monitor the technical safety of the systems and the correct operation of the processes. They immediately trigger an alarm if the flow is interrupted and are ideal for monitoring pump systems, filters, cooling circuits, CIP return flows, or for detecting misdirected media.

The whitepaper provides an overview of the technologies which are available on the market, a matrix with possible applications, and the recommended technology for each of these applications in dairies, breweries, the beverage or the pharmaceutical industry. A list of additional parameters and media properties completes the criteria for the selection of measurement systems.