Calculating Benefits and Savings
1. What is the value of the fat and solids that we give away to customers each year because our ingredients vary in specification and our current system cannot cope with these variations ?
2. What is the cost to us each year because our current system cannot accurately measure Batch Volumes, resulting in tank underfills or overfills?
3. What are the potential savings of being able to use ingredients that have been produced wrongly elsewhere on site, for example, the ability to use 48% cream that has been overproduced?
4. What would be the cost savings and increased throughput implications of being able to immediately produce the next batch, instead of having to mix another batch once the mix tank is empty?
5. What are the cost savings of utilising other ingredient streams that we currently don't know what to do with? (For example separated cream washings?)
6. What are the cost savings of never having a product rejected by our customer on the grounds of being out of specification? (Transport costs, disposal costs, replacement costs?)
7. What are the benefits of producing homogeneous products at all stages of the batch processing, management defined recipes and exact management information?
The SmartMixer calculates each batch depending on the specifications of the ingredients available ON THE DAY, not at the time of calculating the RECIPE SHEETS
The SmartMixer accurately measures each batch using flow meters, so that batch volumes are totally accurate and tank volume utilisation can be maximised.
The SmartMixer is IMMEDIATELY available to produce the next batch once the current batch has finished, because it mixes the ingredients in REAL TIME.
The SmartMixer has the ability to use ANY specification ingredient, even those that you might not have thought of.
The SmartMixer will always produce the correct specification end product as long as the ingredients are correctly specified
The SmartMixer will produce homogeneous product at all stages of the batch to the recipe stored in the PLC and will inform operators of the exact litres of each product made and used.
The SmartMixer has the ability to use ANY specification ingredient, as long as it is physically possible to produce the end product using these ingredients
Calculating an ROI (Return on Investment) for installing a SmartMixer is not an easy task, and will vary from site to site, where varying methods of production and production volumes will give different answers. This page provides a guide to the benefits that the SmartMixer provide, and some sample questions to calculate the cost savings. See also an actual cost saving example shown here.