Client

Micro Matic is the global market leader in keg couplers supply, keg extractor valves, and dispensing solutions to the brewing industry. With an innovative mindset, a clear investment strategy, and visionary leadership, Micro Matic has pioneered industry-leading draft beer products and services since 1953 and is today active worldwide.

Located in over 120 countries, Micro Matic is the leading global supplier of premium On Tap dispensing solutions and equipment.

By possessing a thorough knowledge of customer demands, a high level of innovation, and a strong corporate culture, Micro Matic creates unique value-added beverage solutions through decades of experience, global reach, and industry-leading training for clients.

Challenge

• Keep up with market trends
• Excel in leadership positions in the industry

Micro Matic decided to focus on digitalization to expand its portfolio and provide a comprehensive offer to their customers. In addition to beverage dispense equipment and solutions, they strived to add value through modern data management that benefits the customers’ business.

Solution

We had to work with a large volume of data to create a data-based system management that collects, stores, analyses, and monitors data, and based on that, alerts about beverage system issues, and enables users to set up and manage the system.

IoT

We develop an interactive IoT platform, that provides its users with a detailed overview of the outlets with all necessary data and calls-to-action. It is a complex solution that is easy to manage, user-friendly, and convenient for further improvements and building up.

Sensor data integration

As a step forward from the developed IoT platform, we embarked on another project aiming to integrate comprehensive and enriched data sets collected by new sensors being installed on the equipment. Thanks to the data now being available on the platform, customers can have better insight into beverage metrics and their dynamics.

Implementation process

By providing valuable team members and experts from all needed fields of expertise, the client has our full support in achieving the corporate goals. We focused on delivering the platform and integrating data within the set timeframe, collaborating with a partner company on the mutual product, and responding to changing market conditions by applying agile methodologies. We accomplished this through thorough and diligent work by understanding the client’s business needs and suggesting and implementing appropriate technical solutions. Besides existing hardware offers, this solution expanded Micro Matic’s portfolio. Starting from the initial but important feature - monitoring and control of outlets where the beverage is being tapped, the platform evolved with more advanced features such as complete management and monitoring of digital lenses and digital content. Additionally, we developed capabilities to handle the upload and content management of media for digital signage.

Qinshift has been collaborating with the client’s hardware provider, by utilizing know-how, industry trends, best practices, and nevertheless technology expertise.

We also had to overcome the challenge of having multiple teams and time zones involved in the process, as the client partnered with Qinshift for software development, and a third-party company for the hardware part of the solution.

Technologies

Back end

Front end

• Angular

Repository

• BitBucket

Task Management

• Jira

CI/CD

• Linux OS
• Docker
• Docker registry
• Jenkins
• Nginx
• Hashicorp Vault

Benefits

By introducing the developed solutions, Micro Matic expanded their service to not merely providing beverage hardware equipment, but also adding value to the business, by providing useful information to customers, through leveraging the application of new technologies, enabling them to have better insight into their day-to-day work and helping them make decisions that lead to more efficient and improved processes.