Family-owned German bakery: 6 wash staff → 1 operator, 4-month payback
Mid-size bread plant producing 22,000 loaves daily on 1,800 trays per shift. Manual wash bay ran 3 staff per shift × 3 shifts. PTW-1900 with heat recovery and Heavy 9-min profile replaced 6 of 9 wash positions; remaining staff redeployed to packaging.
$240K annual labour saving, 4-month payback. HACCP cycle traceability went from audit-vulnerable manual logbook to PLC-generated CSV log.