Solutions
The right system for the way you actually operate.
Automat builds tea and coffee systems for seven operating environments. The machine, the accessories, the Chai Ecosystem and the visibility layer all change with the environment.
Editorial environment image
Find a starting point.
Tell us what you serve, how much and where. We suggest up to three systems from Automat’s published specifications.
Choose a beverage, a daily requirement and an application to see up to three suggested systems.
01 — Seven environments
Where the system has to work.
Each environment sets a different problem. Start with the one that matches yours.
A note on imagery: the environment photographs across Solutions are editorial context, chosen to show the kind of setting each system is built for. They are not photographs of Automat installations. Machines, accessories, pack artwork and dashboard screens shown on these pages are Automat’s own.
Office Pantry
A shared workplace beverage point serving changing tea and coffee demand through the working day.
Café & Cafeteria
A beverage operation where service speed, menu breadth and consistency matter during concentrated demand periods.
Hotels
Hospitality service points with different formats, from breakfast and lounge service to smaller in-room provision.
Hospitals
Beverage access across staff and visitor areas where demand can extend beyond conventional office hours.
Institutions
Beverage systems for campuses, government and defence establishments, and large institutional facilities.
Factories
Shift-based operations where beverage demand concentrates around breaks and shift changes.
Home
The same beverage engineering, scaled for personal use.
02 — What changes
Seven things move the answer.
These are the factors we work through before recommending a configuration.
Demand pattern
Steady through the day, or concentrated into breaks and shift changes.
Beverage mix
Tea-led, coffee-led, or both expected from the same point.
Service style
Served across a counter, or used directly by the person drinking.
Fresh milk
Whether fresh milk is handled, and which accessory supports it.
Attendance
Whether someone operates the machine, or it runs unsupervised.
Space
How much counter and floor the format needs.
Visibility
Whether the site needs to see status, consumption and refill levels.
03 — One ecosystem
A solution is more than a machine.
Each layer is configured against the environment, and only where the evidence supports it.
01
Machine
Selected against the environment, not the other way round.
02
Accessory
Milk boiler, refrigerator, frother or payment module, where documented compatible.
03
Tea and coffee
A developed blend programme where the machine supports it.
04
Connectivity
Machine status, consumption and refill levels where the machine documents it.
05
Service
Installation, refill and service arranged per site.
04 — Built by Automat
The machines are assembled and configured in our own facility.
Illustrative visuals of machine assembly and a beverage equipment showroom.