OM Group 5, National Cranberry Cooperative
OM Group 5, National Cranberry Cooperative
OM Group 5, National Cranberry Cooperative
-Yogikumar
-Sujitkumar
-Shubham
-Shamin
-Ajay Bairva
-Ajay ola
-Shashank
-R.R.Ranjan 1
National Cranberry Cooperative
99% of sales of cranberries were made by the
various cooperatives that are active in the cranberry
industry
NCC has operations in all of North America
Surplus of Cranberries leads to Act of 1937 – Cap
on Crop production
Increasing mechanization in harvesting
Water harvesting was not the preferred method for
fruits which are to be sold fresh
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Receiving plant number 1
Peak season – October
Fresh fruit operation – 400 workers during peak
Packaged fruits directly shipped to market.
Process fruit operation – Highly mechanized.
Bulk trucks with fruits – 20 to 400 bbls
Average – 75bbls
Truck’s % net weight of clean, dry berries estimated
Berries graded according to color
Color grading often went wrong, and a light meter system
costing 10,000$ was to be installed.
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Temporary holding
After the previous process, the truck takes the
berries to dumpers
27 holding bins
5 to 10 mins to back a truck onto the dumper
and finish the dumping process
At times it takes up to 3 hrs
Due to holding bins becoming full
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Destoning, Dechaffing and Drying
HB 25-27 – wet berries , HB 17-24 used for both
Dechaffing – 1500 bbls per hour each.
After this, wet berries taken to three dryers –
200bbls per hour per dryer
HB 1-16 for dry berries only
Berries from these units routed to three destoning
units – 1500 bbls per hour
Wet berries and Dry berries processed through
different machines (latter did not include the drier)
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Milling – Quality Grading
Then taken to third level of Separator building, using feed
conveyors
9 jumbo separators for each of the three feed conveyors
The separator identified the berries – First quality, Second
Quality and unacceptable
First quality went directly to one of three take away
conveyors
Second quality -> bailey mills -> further separation into
second quality and unacceptable
Second quality – 12%
Average processing capacity slightly less than 400 bbls per
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Bulking and Bagging
Six conveyors to shipping – 3 from jumbo,3 from bailey
Each conveyor-> any of three flexible conveyor in shipping
area ->any of four bagging stations, 4 bulk bin stations or 2
bulk truck stations
Finally stored in freezers and used for an year in NCC
processing plants
Max 8000 bbls bagged in 12 hour period
Three 5 member teams run 3 bagging machines and 4th one
kept as a spare in case of break down
Local processing plant utilized an average of 700 bbls daily
from bulk bins that could be filled at the rate of about 200
bbls per hour at each of the four bin stations 7
Scheduling the work force
During harvest, process fruit side operated 7 days a week with
either a 27 member force or 53 member force depending on
volume
27 employees employed throughout the year
15 seasonal workers
$2.25 per hour for seasonal workers
Overtime rate -1.5 times the straight time rate>40 hrs a week
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Full year employees straight time rate - $3.75 per hour
Amount of overtime depends on how effectively workers
could be scheduled
Problems with absenteeism
Resulted in overtime of those who were present
At least 2 hours of cleaning and maintenance work was
required
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THANK YOU
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