Capture Savings Hidden in Your Current Recipes
With K-Tron's FeedSmart you can quickly compute the lowest possible recipe cost for every blend, formulation or compound you process, and calculate additional savings with improved feeder accuracy.
How FeedSmart Works
FeedSmart is a Microsoft® Excel 2003 Workbook designed to minimize the cost of any recipe containing up to six ingredients.
Based on the recipe and application data you enter, FeedSmart identifies the most expensive ingredient and minimizes its presence according to the quality tolerances you've entered.
Once minimized, FeedSmart 'freezes' the ingredient and recalculates the remaining ingredients according to their relative proportions in your original recipe. Then FeedSmart moves on to the next-most-expensive ingredient to repeat the process.
Within the upper and lower tolerance limits you set for each ingredient, expensive ingredients are progressively replaced with lower-cost ingredients, minimizing total ingredient cost.
After computing the lowest-cost recipe, FeedSmart's integrated System Optimization feature automatically adjusts the recipe to assure that allowable variations in one ingredient won't cause other ingredients to violate their specified proportions in the final blend.
FeedSmart Efficiency Grid provides a clear and dynamically changing visualization of the improvement in recipe efficiency enabled in a tolerance-based approach, as well as the added savings realized through improved feeder performance
FeedSmart Main Worksheet is where you enter your application and view the cost-minimized recipe and associated savings. Other worksheets let you see the effects of different feeder performance levels and ingredient tolerances. Register Now to Go to the FeedSmart download page. To learn more about FeedSmart, view Flash Presentation.