Biscuit Line Capacity Unit Converter

Biscuit line listings publish capacity on at least three different bases, and two quotations cannot be ranked until they sit on one. Put any published figure in here and it comes back on all four bases at once, including pieces per hour once you give the finished piece weight.

Convert a published figure

Figure as listed

Basis it is published on

Finished piece weight (g)

Piece weight is only needed to cross the mass/count boundary. Leave it at zero and the count column is reported as not derivable rather than guessed.

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Why the bases have to be reconciled first

Published basis	What it leaves open
Pieces per hour	Mass output, because the piece weight is not stated
Kilograms per hour, single figure	Whether that rate is peak or sustained
Kilograms per hour, banded	Which end of the band your product sits at
Kilograms per 24 hours	The hourly rate, and whether the plant runs 24 hours

The conversion model, stated

Order of operations

Every input is first brought to kilograms per 24 hours and rounded to the nearest kilogram
Kilograms per hour = kilograms per 24 hours divided by 24, rounded to the nearest kilogram
Pounds per hour = kilograms per hour multiplied by 2.2046, rounded to the nearest pound
Pieces per hour = kilograms per hour multiplied by 1,000 and divided by the piece weight in grams

Why it rounds at each step rather than at the end

It reproduces the way this line’s own specification is published: 4,000 kg per 24 h, then 167 kg/h, then 368 lb/h
A single unrounded chain gives a different last digit from every published sheet you are comparing against, which is worse than being consistent
Where a conversion cannot be made — no piece weight, unknown basis, negative input — the tool returns nothing rather than a plausible number