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How much is paper based data recording costing your pasteurization plant?

Paper to digital: digitizing the collection of your dairy plant process data

Calculate how much you could save by moving from paper to digital data recording1

The calculator below is designed to assist in realizing the potential cost of ownership associated with circular paper chart recorders. Enter the data relating to each cost area of your production plant to find out your overall annual spending for paper recording.

 

Paper recording consumable costs

Paper recording resource costs

Paper recording maintenance costs

Paper data storage costs

The calculations made are based on the following assumptions:

  • Operations are 24/7
  • A facility is using circular chart recorders and would need 2 charts per day
  • Each circular chart recorder uses 3 pens, and pens last for 30 days
  • Circular recorder charts are purchased in packages of 100 and lots of 2
  • Circular recorder pens are purchased in packages of 5 and lots of 2
  • Circular recorder service events occur once per year
  • Space for the storage of new charts is 0.5 m2
  • Space for the storage of recorded charts is 1 m2
  • It takes 5 minutes for a procurement professional to order 2 lots of chart paper or 2 lots of pens
  • It takes 5 minutes for a warehouse operator to receive 2 lots of paper or 2 lots of pens as inventory
  • It takes 10 minutes for a production operator to retrieve new paper or pens
  • It takes 5 minutes for production operator to install new paper or pens
  • It takes 10 minutes for an auditor to retrieve or return data charts

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