Operations
The real cost of a cheap filling machine
A machine that costs 30% less but stops twice a week is not cheaper. We break down downtime, giveaway and rework into a single number you ca...
Read moreOver-filling by half a percent sounds trivial until you multiply it across a year of production. Here's the arithmetic.
On a line running 30,000 units a day, half a percent of giveaway on a 1 kg fill adds up to roughly 150 kg of product handed out for free, every single day. Over a year, that is the equivalent of weeks of production lost to a rounding error nobody budgeted for.
Servo-driven dosing heads that hold ±0.5% accuracy pay for the accuracy premium within months on most product lines.
