• Exterior of a New Belgium Brewing building

    CUSTOMER STORIES

    Transforming craft beer with technology and solutions at the edge

    • CustomerNew Belgium Brewing Company

      IndustryManufacturing

      LocationUnited States

    • Vision

      Once a boutique operation, New Belgium Brewing Company now produces over a million barrels of beer a year, plus other alcoholic drinks. To consolidate multiple IT domains, the company turned to Dell VxRail at the edge and in the data center to support its ambitious production goals to sustainably drive efficiencies.

    • Solution

      With Dell Technologies as its trusted advisor, New Belgium Brewing built out its edge environment based on an innovative Dell VxRail solution to improve efficiency, savings, compliance and sustainability with real-time AI inferencing to accelerate beer manufacturing.

    • Impact

      New Belgium Brewing realized these business results with Dell Technologies edge solutions: Cut annual company operating costs by 40%; boosted output 20% via remote, unmanned production; and reduced downtime by 10% in production and distribution; improved compliance 25% via real-time, edge insights. 

    • Adam Little, Senior Manager, Enterprise Security and Compliance, New Belgium Brewing Company 

      “We’ve improved efficiency, savings, compliance and sustainability with the Dell VxRail on our edge.” 

      Headshot of Adam Little, Senior Manager, Enterprise Security and Compliance, New Belgium Brewing Company

    • Business Results

    • Reduced annual company operating costs by 40%.

    • Increased output 20% by running remote production via edge solutions.

    • Cut downtime 10% by using edge solutions in production and distribution.

    • Improved compliance 25% via real-time, edge insights for faster actions.