VegTech Systems
Run the numbers, compare suppliers, and see what's moving in the industry, before the capex meeting.
What VegTech Systems is
VegTech Systems is a software company that builds decision tools for fruit and vegetable processors: a free equipment ROI worksheet (PlantBench, at processorroi.com), a supplier directory scored on published criteria, and VegTech Signals, a monthly digest of sourced industry signals.
Built for plant managers, engineers, and the finance people they answer to.
Labor hours, yield points, kilowatts, and a simple payback for peelers, washers, blanchers, sorters, freezers, dehydrators, robotics, and full lines. Your numbers, a conservative case, and a board-ready PDF. No login.
Try the calculatorProcessing-equipment suppliers by category, scored against the same published criteria: North American service footprint, install evidence, category breadth, and documentation. Every supplier is held to one standard.
Join the directory waitlistA monthly digest of public signals across U.S., Canadian, and Mexican fruit and vegetable processing: new plants and lines, expansions, closures, and consolidation, each with its source.
Get the monthly digestDefaults are labeled as rough assumptions. Every figure can be edited.
Formulas, scoring criteria, and sources are published. If a number can't be traced, it doesn't go in.
The tools are meant to be useful even if you never talk to us.
Plain-language references for building and checking a capex case.
A step-by-step method for fruit and vegetable plants: set the baseline, price labor, yield and energy separately, add a conservative case, and state what the model leaves out.
What simple payback, discounted payback, net present value and internal rate of return each tell you, how to calculate them, and when finance will ask for which one.
A practical checklist for comparing equipment suppliers on fit, sanitary design, safety, service footprint, documentation, acceptance testing and total cost of ownership.
Plain-language definitions of the finance and operations terms that come up in fruit and vegetable processing capital decisions, from loaded labor rate to IRR.
VegTech Systems is led by Dan Ghadiri: 14 years owning and running businesses in the U.S. and Germany, and a PhD in Risk Management and Engineering.
About VegTech SystemsVegTech Systems is a software company that builds decision tools for fruit and vegetable processors: PlantBench, a free equipment ROI worksheet at processorroi.com; a supplier directory scored on published criteria; and VegTech Signals, a monthly digest of sourced industry signals. It is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Plant managers, process and maintenance engineers, operations directors and plant controllers at frozen, canned, dried, fresh-cut and IQF operations, plus the finance teams that review their capital requests.
PlantBench is free to use with no login. The Supplier Directory and VegTech Signals are in preparation; you can join the waitlist or the digest list from their pages.
VegTech Systems is a software and tools company for fruit and vegetable processors. We build decision tools and offer solutions and consulting for processing plants.
Price each source of savings separately: labor hours saved times the loaded wage, recovered yield pounds times product value, and the change in energy use times your utility rates (which can be a cost). Add them for annual savings, then divide the installed capital cost by annual savings for simple payback. Check the result at half your expected gains before taking it to finance.