Food & Beverage Manufacturing worked example

Palletizing Rate at 99% expected palletizing efficiency: a worked example in food & beverage manufacturing

Push expected palletizing efficiency up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it for manual, conventional, cobot, or robotic palletizing where cases per pallet, pallet pattern, stretch wrapping, and label checks affect output.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Completed pallets: 72 pallets (unchanged)
  • Palletizing machine runtime: 6 hr (unchanged)
  • Expected palletizing efficiency: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Palletizing Rate throughput = completed pallets รท palletizing runtime) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 11.88 pallets / hr for effective palletizing rate throughput, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 12 pallets / hr for raw throughput.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 99 % for expected palletizing efficiency.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 6 hr for palletizing runtime.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where expected palletizing efficiency sits at 90% and the headline result is 10.8 pallets / hr, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 11.88 pallets / hr.
  • It computes effective pallets per hour by dividing completed pallets by runtime and then scaling by expected palletizing efficiency. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Effective palletizing rate throughput: 11.88 pallets / hr (headline result)
  • Raw throughput: 12 pallets / hr
  • Expected palletizing efficiency: 99 %
  • Palletizing runtime: 6 hr

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Palletizing Rate calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.