creative solutions considering the trend of increasing water harvested berries.
2. In the current flow of the process, identify the bottleneck area(s). What are the causes? What recommendations, both short-term and long-term, would you make to solve the bottleneck problem?
The bottleneck area in the process is drying. There are about 19,000bbls go through the process (average 75bbls * 243 t
Presentation of NCC & The Cranberry Industry
Cranberry Grower
99% of the Berries sold were produced by Cooperatives
New techniques
Water Harvesting
High Mechanization
allowed a faster treatment of fruits
Explanation of the RP1’s Main Problems
Incontrollable Overtime Costs
Excessive Waiting Time
(Overtime)
Increasing Growers’ Complaining
Capacity Ana
1) INTRODUCTION
The National Cranberry Cooperative case present the production and operation problems faced by plant processing berries in the USA, in the seventies.
- PRESENTATION OF NCC & THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY
As volume of the harvested berries increased, problems arose in the transformation of those berries into saleable products. This was the case in NCC’s receiving plant n°1 (RP1).
II. Temporary Holding
After the process berries were weighted, sampled and finally color graded, they were finally moved to one of the five Kiwanee dumpers which had rapidly moving belt conveyors. The berries were taken to one of the 27 temporary holding bins (bins 1-24 held 250 bbls. and bins 25-27 held 400 bbls. each) which were controlled from a central control panel. Although it usually took