Grain Milling, Dry Bulk Food & Feed Handling worked example

Packaging Rate at 99% target packaging completion rate: a worked example

What does the result look like when target packaging completion rate reaches 99%? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when bagging, tote filling, valve-bag packing, form-fill-seal, or palletizing teams need to know whether finished flour, feed, meal, or dry ingredients are packing fast enough.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Accepted (good) bags packed this period: 2,350 bags (unchanged)
  • Planned bag count for the period: 2,500 bags (unchanged)
  • Target packaging completion rate: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 96)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Packaging completion rate = accepted packages packed ÷ planned packages for period × 100) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 94 % for packaging completion rate, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 5 points for packaging rate gap to target.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 2,350 count for accepted packages packed.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 2,500 count for planned packages for period.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where target packaging completion rate sits at 96% and the headline result is 94 %, this scenario lands almost exactly on the baseline at 94 %.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when target packaging completion rate is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It does not tell you why bags were short — a low rate could be a jammed bagger, an upstream mill stoppage, or quality rejects, so pair it with downtime and reject reason codes.

Results at a glance

  • Packaging completion rate: 94 % (headline result)
  • Packaging rate gap to target: 5 points
  • Accepted packages packed: 2,350 count
  • Planned packages for period: 2,500 count

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.