Indeed, it is not clear if that is just for the machine which produces the napkins or for the entire production line.
Also to take in consideration is
- warehouse area to store raw materials
- some kind of financial system to manage purchase orders / sales orders
21,000 napkins / hour. Let's assume there's 10 in a box, 8 boxes to a case and 30 cases in a pallet.
So that's 2400 napkins / pallet = ~ 9 pallets per hour. You're also going to need labelling, conveyors, people to pack the boxes, people to pack the cases, people to stack the pallets and then a few fork lifts to move the pallets plus of course engineering staff to maintain all this.
So it's not really small machine v big machine, it's small machine v production line which adds a lot of complexity.
Also to take in consideration is
- warehouse area to store raw materials - some kind of financial system to manage purchase orders / sales orders
21,000 napkins / hour. Let's assume there's 10 in a box, 8 boxes to a case and 30 cases in a pallet.
So that's 2400 napkins / pallet = ~ 9 pallets per hour. You're also going to need labelling, conveyors, people to pack the boxes, people to pack the cases, people to stack the pallets and then a few fork lifts to move the pallets plus of course engineering staff to maintain all this.
So it's not really small machine v big machine, it's small machine v production line which adds a lot of complexity.