Retort Line Capacity Planner

Enter the pack pattern and the four parts of your cycle. The planner returns cycles per shift, packs per shift and packs per hour for the whole retort group, so you can check a capacity target before anyone quotes a vessel size.

Line inputs

Planned output

The hold time belongs to your scheduled process and is established by a qualified person for your product, container and load, not supplied with the machine. Loading and unloading are counted as dead time inside the cycle because that is what caps a batch line. Use this planner to size a line, not to set a process.