Effect of reliability of machinery on layout of filling plants
The efficiency achieved on filling plants depends largely on the reliability of individual machines as well as on layout of the filling plant. In planning filling plants, it is very interesting to determine the degree to which these two parameters correlate and to see whether established "rules of thumb" can be found to apply to plant planning.
Filling plant have to be operated as efficiently as possible. This is one of the reasons why engineers and production specialists are increasingly having to deal with efficiency considerations, benchmarking and similar new challenges. Nevertheless, efficiency levels in breweries are oftentimes no more than 70 to 85%. In operation of filling plants, many important events arise by chance (e.g.
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