Case Study: Deschutes Brewery defers $750K chiller purchase and extends chiller lifespan with Samsara

Deschutes Brewery - Customer Case Study

Deschutes Brewery, one of the largest craft brewers in the US, needed to balance fast-paced innovation with efficient operations. When a potential $750,000 investment in a redundant chiller was proposed, operations staff sought a low-overhead way to verify the health of their existing chiller before committing to the expense.

Deschutes deployed Samsara’s power and vibration monitoring with an Industrial Gateway to integrate older equipment, feeding real-time data and alerts into the cloud and plant historian. Stable vibration and power trends let them defer the redundant chiller for two years, optimize cooling schedules to reduce peak load and equipment strain, and improve capital-planning confidence while lowering overall costs.

Deschutes Brewery

Tim Alexander

Operations Technology Manager