Plant Configuration
Define how the syrup room is arranged, installed equipment baseline, and which planning modules apply. These settings drive the process flow preview, capacity scope, and optional simulation tools.
General site information
Peak month volume = annual volume × the peak month factor. Daily rates divide that month by operating days per week × 4.33 weeks, then by production hours per day.
Plant configuration
Used to size Sugar Treatment and Sugar Dissolving capacity from sugar demand (Simple Syrup Mass Flow = Sugar Demand ÷ Brix fraction).
After the dissolver, simple syrup is stored so final-syrup preparation can always be fed while tanks rotate through CIP. Uncheck only if simple syrup is not stored on site.
Finished syrup is held in tanks. Tank farm planning, the filling plan, and the production schedule apply.
Sugar dissolver design basis
Controls which syrup drives the continuous sugar dissolver sizing. The theoretical worst case is always retained and shown as a warning when it exceeds the selected design case.
Syrups below this peak-month beverage volume share are excluded from the practical design case, unless marked “Include in design basis” on the Syrup recipes page.
Existing equipment
Installed capacities and infrastructure, used as the baseline for gap analysis.
Every installed tank is always used in the optimised tank farm. Optionally restrict a tank to a specific pool; leave as "Any pool" to let the optimiser assign it freely.
No tanks added.
Simple syrup is one product — tanks are interchangeable. CIP time is set under Tank farm parameters.
No simple-syrup tanks added.
Tank farm parameters
Engineering assumptions for tank sizing. Standard sizes are used for both final-syrup tank farm optimisation and simple-syrup storage tanks.
Comma-separated list of standard tank sizes (hL). Existing installed tanks may use non-standard volumes. Used for final-syrup tanks and simple-syrup storage tanks.
Packaging lines
Line speeds determine beverage flow rates for blending and syrup emptying calculations. Sync from Production Demand or configure manually.
No packaging lines — add beverages with line names in Production Demand.
Dedicated tank groups
Groups listed here cannot share tanks with syrups from other groups. Syrups within the same group may still share. All other groups share freely by default.