Aunir - Near Infra Red (NIR) Calibration Specialists

Cost Savings

The integration of NIR technology into any manufacturing business can yield significant cost savings through:

Better understanding of raw material quality against agreed purchasing contracts
Tighter process control, reducing the risk of reworked or scrapped product
Final product testing which reduces product rejection by customers
Reduction in the overall reliance on external wet chemistry laboratories.

Reducing external wet chemistry testing easily demonstrates how quickly paybacks can be made on NIR investment. The case study below details the savings made by a multi-species feed manufacturing plant implementing NIR with INGOT calibrations.

Ingot can provide analysis for Group 1 and the bulk of Group 2, however not all traditional reference analysis can be replaced, as some is required to validate the performance of the NIR. Taking the annual tonnage figure we can estimate the cost of analysis per tonne, this calculation clearly demonstrates the cost justification for INGOT.

Approximate savings based on 100,000 tonne manufacturing plant
	Testing	Number of samples sent for analysis per annum	Annual external wet chemistry costs	Savings per annum using NIR with INGOT
Group 1	Moisture, Oil, Protein, Fibre and Ash	1,000	£42,600	£40,470
Group 2	Minerals, Starch, Sugar + Structural Carbohydrates	250	£28,950	£19,760
Group 3	Undesirables, Vitamins, Fatty Acids & Amino Acid Profiles	40	£11,200	N/A
	Totals		Costs £82,750	Savings £60,230
	Analysis cost per tonne		0.83p without INGOT	0.23p with INGOT