Zone 1 is the so-called dirty department. Here the unwashed product arrives via tip trailers or big bags or cubic boxes. The large hopper in the separate room is for the tip trailers. Product freshly harvested from the land is supplied here with tip trailers. The freshly harvested products are from our own cultivation. When designing the project, two refrigerated rooms were created for product from suppliers. These products can be supplied in jumbo bags and cubic boxes. The jumbo bags and cubic boxes can be unloaded and temporarily stored in this room. As mentioned earlier we have here a distribution center as a docking station. The product that comes in must be removed within a few days. The storage space for the cubic boxes and jumbo bags is only sufficient for a few days. The wash is divided into a destoner and a drum washer. After the drum washer is another adjustable roller set for waste or and undersize. After this roller set there is a choice for a chunk grader or directly to the manual selection unit. The chunk grader is used for carrots and parsnips.with drawings and calculations.

Here the products are fed over the selection unit. The selection unit is multi-functional. Here the rejected product can be placed in the middle. The selection unit is then used by default for so-called negative selection. However, the customer also wants to be able to manually remove a certain size or quality from the batch. We then speak of positive selection. We then get the very best out of the party instead of the rejected ones. After the selection unit you can choose to polish or to proceed directly to the first sorter. In zone two you can also bring washed and selected but not sorted product to the sorting line. In zone two is also the first sorting machine. We need an extra sorting machine here to reach the extreme minimum size and maximum size. The first size of this sorting machine is 4.3 inches going to the next sorting machine. The maximum size of this machine is 10.2 inches. The first size of the first sorter goes to sorter two the next two sizes are for the market. For example, rutabages, turnips, seleriac and beetroot.

At zone three, the second grading machine has been installed. After this grading machine, we have a wide range of possibilities for the graded product. Each grade of the lift roller grader can be done to a cubic box for temporary storage. For three grades, three round packing tables have been placed for manual packing. At the sorting machine there is also a bunker where sorted and washed product can be distributed to one of the packaging machines. From the grading machine you can bring each grade to each of the two Upmann multi head weighers. This part of the line is where the actual distribution center of the line is situated. We have achieved maximum flexibility. The limitation is the number of automated weighers and packers.

The distribution center is a logical system where the principle of first in first out is strictly applied. The production and shipping departments receive the orders from the sales department. The prepared orders are placed in a fixed system in the distribution center by the members of the production team. With the help of tablets, the orders and places in the distribution center are communicated to the employees of production. To support this, large electronic order screens are set up at the production location in the line. The same process takes place at dispatch. The employees receive the orders for dispatch on tablets. Large electronic screens are also set up at the dispatch department. Management by walking is a thing of the past. It is now a tightly organized logistics process.