An automated industrial malt manufacturing device (11) and an agent- and digital twin-based malt manufacturing
system (1) are proposed for the automated operation of the industrial malt manufacturing device (11) of the agent- and digital twin-based malt manufacturing
system (1). The malt manufacturing device (11) converts supplied grains (2, 21, 21i) into output malt (3). The malt manufacturing device (11) includes: a soaking device (111) for
wetting the supplied grains (2, 21, 21i) until the
moisture content of the supplied grains (2, 21, 21i) reaches a certain level (111). 1) Reaching a defined
moisture content level (1112); a
germination device (112) configured to receive moistened grains (22) after being moistened by a soaking device (111), for germinating the moistened grains (22) by activating enzymes in the moistened grains (22) and converting the moistened grains (22) into germinated green malt (23); and a
drying kiln (113) configured to receive germinated grains (23) after being germinated by the
germination device (112), for
drying the germinated green malt (23) to a defined
moisture content level (1131). The
system (1) based on intelligent agents and digital twins includes a digital twin structure (12) providing a virtual digital representation of the physical malt manufacturing equipment (11). In addition, it includes sensors and / or measuring devices (13) associated with the physical malt manufacturing equipment (11), which transmit measured sensory parameter values (131), wherein the system (1) dynamically monitors the transmitted sensory parameter values (131) and updates the digital twin (12) based on the parameter values.