Start with five practical details
Describe whether you need one machine, a processing section or a connected juice route. Include the intended product and where the supplied equipment starts and stops.
- Incoming material: whole fruit, prepared arils or juice.
- Finished product: cloudy juice, clarified juice or concentrate.
- Approximate quantity and planned operating pattern, when known.
- Packaging or the next process connection.
- Existing machines and the stage you need to add or replace.
Add engineering information as it becomes available
Useful follow-up information includes product trials, inlet and outlet heights, available space and the relevant utility connections. Describe cleaning and operator-access requirements.
If capacity or product properties are not yet established, say so. This is more useful than presenting an assumed number as a confirmed design basis.
Compare proposals at the same boundary
Ask what equipment, pumps, controls, pipe connections and cleaning scope are included. Identify installation interfaces and the proposed acceptance measurements.
Do not compare a stand-alone press with a proposal that also includes preparation, buffers, treatment and filling without adjusting for the supplied scope.