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Plain-language references for plant managers, engineers and the finance people who review their requests.
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Four evergreen guides: how to build a capital equipment ROI case, how payback, NPV and IRR differ, a checklist for comparing processing equipment suppliers, and a glossary of capex terms. Examples are labeled as illustrative and use hypothetical round numbers.
A step-by-step method for fruit and vegetable plants: set the baseline, price labor, yield and energy separately, add a conservative case, and state what the model leaves out.
9 min read · Dan Ghadiri
What simple payback, discounted payback, net present value and internal rate of return each tell you, how to calculate them, and when finance will ask for which one.
8 min read · Dan Ghadiri
A practical checklist for comparing equipment suppliers on fit, sanitary design, safety, service footprint, documentation, acceptance testing and total cost of ownership.
8 min read · Dan Ghadiri
Plain-language definitions of the finance and operations terms that come up in fruit and vegetable processing capital decisions, from loaded labor rate to IRR.
7 min read · Dan Ghadiri