Floor plans for production sites

Breww's floor plan editor lets you build a visual layout of each of your production sites, so your team can see the brewery the way it really looks instead of a generic grouped list of vessels. Drag vessels and brewing systems onto a canvas, draw rooms, doorways or walkways, upload a scan of your actual floor to trace over, and — when you're ready — publish the plan to the production dashboard.

Each production site has its own floor plan. If you brew across multiple sites, you can build a separate plan for each one.

Before you start

Before a user can edit a floor plan, they need the Manage vessel floor plan permission. Users without this permission can still see the floor plan on the production dashboard (once it's been enabled) — they just can't edit it. See User permissions for how to update a user's role.

All vessels and brewing systems shown in the editor come from your existing production setup. If something is missing, add it first via the steps in Brewing systems and vessels.

Opening the floor plan editor

1. Head to the Production dashboard.
2. If you have multiple sites, make sure the correct site tab is selected at the top of the vessel visualisation.
3. Click the Edit floor plan button in the dashboard header.

The editor at a glance

The editor is split into three main areas:

• Toolbar (top) — tools for selecting, drawing shapes, zooming, and toggling the grid.

• Canvas (centre) — the working area where you place vessels and draw your layout.

• Sidebar (right) — lists of unplaced vessels and brewing systems, properties of whatever is currently selected, and your plan's settings.

  A blue help panel at the top of the page summarises the main actions. An orange Unsaved changes badge appears next to the Save button whenever you have changes that haven't been saved yet.

  
  

  

Placing vessels and brewing systems

The right-hand sidebar lists every vessel and brewing system at the site that isn't already on the plan, split into Unplaced vessels and Unplaced brewing systems.

1. Drag an item from the sidebar onto the canvas to place it.

2. Once placed, drag it around to reposition.

3. Grab any edge or corner to resize.

4. To take an item off the plan, select it on the canvas and use the Delete option in the properties sidebar — it will return to the unplaced list.

   When Snap to grid is enabled (see Plan settings), items snap neatly to the grid as you drag and resize, which makes it easy to line them up.

Drawing shapes

Use the drawing tools in the toolbar to add rectangles, lines, circles, and text labels to your plan. These are useful for marking out rooms, walkways, doorways, drains, or labelling areas of the brewery.

1. Click Rectangle, Line, Circle, or Text in the toolbar.

2. Click and drag on the canvas to draw the shape.

3. Switch back to the Select tool to click on any shape and edit its properties in the sidebar — you can change its label, stroke colour, fill colour, line thickness, and delete it.

   Shapes sit behind the vessels and brewing systems, so the items always remain clearly visible on top.

Background images

If you have a scan, architect's drawing, or other diagram of your brewery, you can upload it as a background image and trace over the top using the drawing tools.

1. Click Background image in the top-right of the editor.
2. Select your image file and upload it.
3. The image is shown behind your vessels and shapes, positioned at the top-left of the canvas.
4. To remove the image, click Remove background (this button only appears when a background has been uploaded).

Plan settings

In the right-hand sidebar, the Plan settings section controls how the canvas behaves and whether the plan is visible to your team.

Saving your work

Click Save in the top-right whenever you want to store your changes. The Unsaved changes badge appears whenever you have pending edits, and Breww will warn you if you try to leave the page with unsaved changes.

Saving doesn't automatically publish the plan — until Show on production dashboard is ticked, the plan only exists in the editor. An orange banner at the top of the editor reminds you if the plan isn't yet visible to your team.

Publishing to the production dashboard

When your plan is ready:

1. Tick Show on production dashboard in the sidebar's plan settings.

2. Click Save.

   The plan immediately replaces the default grouped vessel visualisation on the Overview tab of the Production dashboard for that site. Users without the Manage vessel floor plan permission can see the plan but can't change it.

   
   

   

Missing items warning

Every vessel and brewing system has a Show on production dashboard setting (see Brewing systems and vessels). When a vessel or brewing system has this turned on, but hasn't been placed on the floor plan, Breww shows a warning banner on both the editor and the dashboard listing the missing items.

The fix is either:

• Place the missing items on the floor plan, or

• Edit the vessel/brewing system and untick Show on production dashboard if you don't want it to appear.

Customising a vessel's icon

By default, Breww picks an icon for each vessel based on its Vessel type (for example, conical fermenter, holding tank, barrel). If the default doesn't match the real thing — for instance, you've set up a road tanker as a transportation vessel, or you want a specific tank to use a different shape — you can override the icon on the vessel itself.

See Brewing systems and vessels for the full walkthrough.