Define the product boundary
Name incoming fruit or intermediate, intended product, package and required preservation route. Keep raw-fruit, intermediate and packed-output rates separate.
Define each machine handoff before separate equipment quotations become a production system.
New process path and the responsibility for every interface.
Name incoming fruit or intermediate, intended product, package and required preservation route. Keep raw-fruit, intermediate and packed-output rates separate.
List who supplies feeding, reject handling, piping, valves, controls and cleaning connections. Identify existing utilities and third-party package equipment.
Agree a material-based acceptance run, operating window, data recording and the response to a downstream interruption. A group of individual nameplates is not a sustained line rating.
Equipment in the review

A belt-and-frame conveyor carries fruit between receiving, inspection and preparation machines.

An open washing bed combines parallel brush rollers with overhead water sprays.

An inclined belt with transverse flights raises suitable washed fruit from a lower discharge to a higher receiving point.