ABSTRACTBatching is a routine part of food production, even in many manufacturing sequences which have continuous components. Determining the correct number of batches to be produced in the face of continuous demand for final product and multiple demands on the batches from many products is a computationally complex problem. an organizational and computational scheme for tracking the impact of the batching decision is presented. the structure provides means for determining resource use patterns and for costing those patterns for a given production plan. the data necessary to drive this system are the costs, the batch formulation and yields and the other resources required by the product. the scheme is suited for electronic computation and can be rendered in a straightforward way on a microcomputer. an example illustrating how the data are organized is provided.
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