200 milliseconds, one fifth of a second, doesn’t sound like much. It might be costing you hundreds of thousands of bottles a year that you could otherwise sell.

Have I got your attention?

An 8-head inline filler, running 8 cycles per minute, has a cycle time of 7.5 seconds. During an 8-hour shift, it will cycle 3,840 times to produce almost 31,000 products. Over a year, 250 shifts, it will produce about 7.75 million bottles.