Understanding Your Production Efficiency and Yield Range

A generic "90% good, 70% warning" efficiency threshold makes sense for some processes and is actively misleading for others. Pressing sesame into oil at 36% isn't a problem — it's the expected result of the process. Judged against a flat 90% target, a genuinely healthy sesame press would look like a serious loss every single day.

If your Factory Type is set, AskBiz's Efficiency KPI (on the Factory hub) and Yield Summary (on the Production log) compare your actual output-to-intake ratio against the expected range for your specific type and product — scoring it good within that range, warn moderately outside it, and bad well outside it. If your factory type is unset, set to Other, or your product doesn't match a known recipe, AskBiz falls back to the same flat 90%/70% threshold used before — it's a safe default, just not calibrated to your process.

Approximate ranges AskBiz uses today, for your main product line in each type:

• Cooking Oil Pressing — Sesame ~36% (33–63%), Groundnut ~76% (68–80%), Sunflower ~25% (20–30%), Palm ~18% (12–24%)
• Packaged Drinking Water — ~90% (50–98%)
• Maize Milling — Whole meal ~98% (97–99%), Sifted/bolted ~88% (80–96%), "Super" meal ~68% (60–75%)
• Cassava Processing — Garri ~22% (17.5–35%), Fufu ~25% (15–40%, a rougher estimate), Starch ~20% (15–25%)
• Rice Milling — Milled rice (no parboil) ~66% (53–70%), Parboiled milled rice ~90% (85–95%), Parboiled paddy ~98% (92–102%)
• Dairy Processing — Cheese ~9% (7.7–11.1%), Ghee/butter ~81% (80–82%)
• Bakery — Baked bread ~85% (75–90%)
• Soap Making — ~100% (90–110%)
• Concrete Blocks — ~100% (86–100%)
• Poultry Processing — Broiler ~72% (70–75%), Turkey ~79% (77–81%), Duck ~70.5% (66–75%), Goose ~68% (64–72%)
• Coffee Processing — Green beans ~18% (15–20%), Dried parchment ~22% (18–28%, the roughest estimate in the set)
• Fish Smoking — ~50% (20–80% — the widest, least certain range here; AskBiz encourages tracking your own average over time rather than relying on this figure)

These are starting points, not guarantees — real yield varies with your equipment, raw material quality, and process.