Line Cost Driver Worksheet

Work through the drivers that decide whether a line pays for itself, using your own operating numbers. The worksheet totals them; it does not supply them.

Every figure below is yours. We publish no benchmark saving, no yield coefficient and no payback period, because those depend on your raw material, your peel depth tolerance, your grading standard and your local utility prices. A borrowed number here would be the fastest way to build a business case that falls apart at the first audit.

Currency for this worksheetDisplay only — no conversion is applied.

1. Manual handling replaced

People on washing, peeling and inspectionHeadcount per shift, today.

Your loaded hourly rateWage plus on-costs, per person per hour.

Operating hours per yearShift hours multiplied by operating days.

2. Peel loss

Tonnes of raw crop processed per year

Value of one tonne of finished product

Peel loss reduction you have measuredPercentage points, from your own trial on your own crop. Leave at zero until you have measured it.

3. Downtime avoided

Hours lost per year to changeover and breakdown

Your own cost of one lost production hourUse your figure, not a magazine average.

Share of those hours you expect to recoverPercentage. Be conservative — this is the line most often overstated.

4. Water and effluent

Water and effluent cost per year today

Intake reduction you have meteredPercentage. Recirculation and filtration cut intake volume, but the saving is site-specific and must be metered.

5. Maintenance and spares

Equipment value the annual percentage applies toUse the quoted figure once you hold a quotation. We do not publish one.

Annual maintenance and spares, as a percentage of that value

Enter at least one driver above zero.

—Annual gross benefit, your figures

—Annual maintenance and spares

—Annual net position

Driver breakdown
Driver	How it was calculated	Per year
Manual handling replaced	headcount × loaded hourly rate × operating hours	0
Peel loss recovered	tonnes × value per tonne × measured reduction	0
Downtime avoided	hours lost × your cost per hour × share recovered	0
Water and effluent	current annual cost × metered intake reduction	0
Maintenance and spares	equipment value × annual percentage	0
Net position		—

Before you take this to a board

Peel loss and downtime lines are only as good as the trial behind them. Measure both on your own crop, across a full shift, before either number leaves this page.
Carry maintenance and spares as an annual percentage of equipment value rather than a one-off, and ask for the spare-parts list before you sign, not after.
This worksheet reports an annual position. It does not compute a payback period, because that needs an installed cost — quotation, freight, duty, installation and commissioning — that only a real proposal can give you.
Add passivation of food-contact surfaces after warranty repairs to the same sheet. Buyers almost never price it in, and it is a corrosion risk in the exact zone your inspector will swab first.

Bring these numbers to a proposal and we will price the scope of supply against them, line by line.

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Nothing in this worksheet is a Shengtu performance claim. Every value shown is arithmetic on the figures you entered, in the currency you selected, with no conversion and no benchmark applied.