Pick one. It sets up the Yield tab for your kind of plant.
This only changes the example numbers and a few words. It does not change any math.
It can be a problem you want to fix, or an idea to make things better. Pick every one it helps. One idea can help more than one thing.
Use this tab when good product gets cut wrong, turned into trim, sent to rendering, or given away in the pack.
How is product packed here?
How many points will your fix move up to full price?
Use this tab when product is lost in cooking, made wrong, reworked, thrown out, or given away in the pack, or when marinade or breading pickup misses the spec.
How is product packed here?
Pick the one thing your fix changes, and how much.
Use this tab when carcasses are condemned, trimmed for damage, lose weight in the cooler, or byproducts are thrown away.
Pick the one thing your fix changes, and how much. Carcass yield is not on this list: much of it depends on the animals that arrive, not the plant.
Always fill in Part 1 first. Send it if your idea saves labor in ways Parts 2 and 3 don't show. Send it last.
What does your plant count?
Send it last. It only counts what Part 2, Part 3, and Downtime have not already counted.
Use Part 2 when the crew is here and paid, but the line is not making product: slow start, changeovers, breaks with no one to cover, or stopping early.
These minutes are part of Part 1. If you send both, the calculator takes these out of Part 1 for you. You fix most of them with a plan: machines ready before the crew comes, changeovers set up early, breaks covered.
Use Part 3 when the line runs, but it has more people on it than it needs for how fast it goes.
Part 3 also uses the goal and worker cost from Part 1, and shifts in one week from Part 2.
Use this tab when a machine breaks and the line stops while it gets fixed.
Overtime costs 1.5 times a normal hour. Fixing a machine before it breaks always costs less than fixing it after.
Use this tab when people keep quitting, or you pay too much overtime.
Left over = savings we count minus the cost each week. Pays for itself = one-time cost divided by what is left over each week. Before you write the brief, do the Balance Check and the Values Check.
The numbers come from the Payback tab. You write the words. Your work saves on this computer as you type.