programme over the following range of vegetables: peas, green beans, potatoes (granules and cubes), cabbage, leeks, carrots, celery, beetroot and The process staff will require to operate on a three shift system, usually ix days per week, with a plant cleaning shift and a maintenance shift in addition at the weekend. Local custom may require that this system be covered by four teams to avoid excessive overtime at weekends but it is by o means uncommon in some factories for staff to accept this overtime, the three eight hour shifts being covered by three teams changing their shifts by rota every week. The many types of dehydration plant will be considered in detail in the following chapters but, for the purpose of assessing the process labour ontent of a typical medium size plant, it could be assumed that the following dryers would be required to handle the above ten month programme For Granules: an Air-Lift dryer with a capacity of 1.5 tons of raw potatoes per hour For peas, green beans, cabbage, celery and leeks one Hot Air Through Conveyor Band Dryer, with a capacity of up to 3 tons of prepared raw egetables per hour-the capacity will vary according to the type of vegetable and size of cut For root vegetables and potato cubes: one Hot Air Through Conveyo Band Dryer with the same capacity as mentioned for other vegetables These dryers would not be operating concurrently throughout the whole of the season but would come into operation in accordance with the availability of the crops. It is vitally important that at certain times some excess drying capacity is available to cope with gluts, or a dryer breakdown, hence the advisability of duplicating the band dryer. Some important crops, which have a short harvest period, such as peas and French beans, can overlap and, in these circumstances, shortage of drying capacity can have dire cor appn The process labour to man this scale of operation, per shift,would be ly as fol Shift Superintendent: 1 Forewomen Quality Control Male Plant Operators: 10 2(maintenance duties only) Electrician 1(maintenance duties only)programme over the following range of vegetables: peas, green beans, potatoes (granules and cubes), cabbage, leeks, camts, celery, beetroot and turnips. The process staff will require to operate on a three shift system, usually six days per week, with a plant cleaning shift and a maintenance shift in addition at the weekend. Local custom may require that this system be covered by four teams to avoid excessive overtime at weekends but it is by no means uncommon in some factories for staff to accept this overtime, the three eight hour shifts being covered by three teams changing their shifts by rota every week. The many types of dehydration plant will be considered in detail in the following chapters but, for the purpose of assessing the process labour content of a typical medium size plant, it could be assumed that the following dryers would be required to handle the above ten month programme: For Granules: an Air-Lift dryer with a capacity of 1.5 tons of raw potatoes per hour; For peas, green beans, cabbage, celery and leeks one Hot Air Through Conveyor Band Dryer, with a capacity of up to 3 tons of prepared m vegetables per hour- the capacity will vary according to the type of vegetable and size of cut; For mot vegetables and potato cubes: one Hot Air Through Conveyor Band Dryer with the same capacity as mentioned for other vegetables. These dryers would not be operating concurrently throughout the whole of the season but would come into operation in accordance with the availability of the crops. It is vitally important that at certain times some excess drying capacity is available to cope with gluts, or a dryer breakdown, hence the advisability of duplicating the band dryer. Some important crops, which have a short harvest period, such as peas and French beans, can overlap and, in these circumstances, shortage of drying capacity can have dire consequences. The process labour to man this scale of operation, per shift, would be approximately as follows: Shift Superintendent: 1 Foreman: 1 Forewomen: 1 Male Plant Operators: 10 Fitters: 2 (maintenance duties only) Electrician: 1 (maintenance duties only) Boilerman: 1 Quality Control: 2 24