Beverage industry dynamics reveals that the downtime and uptime in production facilities never seems to disappear. Call it idle/lost time, productive/positive time, but the results in any case will have significant impacts on beverage producing operations that involve unwarranted expenses in machinery, materials and labor, less than desirable asset utilization and unrecoverable productive time.
The issue and its longevity has been a debatable, controversial and difficult to solve challenge for more than 50 years. We must ask why businesses continue to focus on a seemingly unsolvable issue when other important priorities should be addressed.