The purpose of this article is to address the common problem of continuous batch washing systems not producing at their design throughput level. The theoretical and actual cycle times of a CBW system often are two very different numbers. You may ask an operator what the cycle time of their CBW is and they will instantly reply with a certain number, say two minutes. You may look at the programming on the system and indeed it will agree with this. However, if you look at the number of transfers that have actually occurred in a period of time, you often ...