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Production Calculators and Planning Tools
Solon uses this tool hub to support buyer decisions with calculators, checklists, and planning aids that point back to the right consulting, engineering, automation, equipment, or commissioning page.
Graphical planning checklists
Support checklist
Beverage facility planning
Gather product, capacity, utility, controls, and handoff assumptions before using the owner guide.
Support checklist
Cleaning-system review
Organize circuit, cycle, chemistry, instrumentation, record, and symptom context before a sanitation review.
Support checklist
Automation scope
Collect states, permissives, PLC/HMI/SCADA assumptions, alarms, IO, vendor boundaries, and test criteria.
Support checklist
Equipment procurement
Check fit, utilities, controls interfaces, vendor exclusions, acceptance criteria, documentation, and startup handoff.
Tool routing should make the next page obvious
The hub stays useful by routing buyers into the right owner or capability surface.
Planning guide
Use the guide when a buyer is still defining production targets, layout, utilities, and startup assumptions.
Sanitation review
Use the sanitation page when the buyer needs help preparing data, symptoms, records, and cycle context for a cleaning-system review.
Automation scope
Use the automation consulting page when the buyer needs to organize controls strategy, vendor questions, or acceptance criteria.
Production Calculators
Interactive tools for sizing, cost modeling, and planning. Results help frame project conversations — not replace engineering review.
Utility sizing
Glycol Load Calculator
Estimate glycol chiller capacity requirements based on tank volume, simultaneous cooling load, fermentation heat generation, and insulation. Helps right-size glycol systems before equipment quotes harden.
Production planning
Batch Capacity Planner
Pressure-test throughput assumptions, scheduling constraints, and tank or line bottlenecks. Enter your batch size, cycle time, and tank count to see if your capacity plan is achievable.
Electrical infrastructure
Electrical Load Estimator
Estimate total electrical demand for a production facility. Helps identify when a service upgrade is needed before lease signing or equipment deposits, and sizes the service entrance for a new facility design.
Financial modeling
ROI & Financial Analyzer
Model ROI for capital projects, equipment upgrades, and automation investments as plant-level decisions — not spreadsheet exercises. Frame the payback conversation before approaching lenders or partners.
Regulatory and compliance
Regulatory Compliance Checklist
Identify the regulatory approval path for your facility or product. Helps teams understand TTB, FDA, state, and local requirements early — before the permit timeline becomes the critical path constraint.
Custom tools
Custom Tool Request
Need a calculator, model, or planning tool that does not exist here? Describe your project scenario and Solon can build a custom tool — brewery financial model, process sizing sheet, or project planning template.
Tool hub questions
Are these tools a replacement for engineering review?
No. They are preparation aids that help organize assumptions and route the buyer to the correct page or project review.
Will every checklist be published?
No. Draft support assets must pass proof, owner-signal, visual, and approval gates before publication.
Use the tools to prepare a better project conversation
Send the project type, current assumptions, and the decision you are trying to make. Solon can point you to the right tool or review path.