Understanding Tanks

Tanks are vessels that are used for storing, fermenting, and aging bulk material. Operations can be transacted against a tank. For example, blend facility staff often use the contents of tanks to top off barrels when bulk material has evaporated. Other examples of operations that involve a tank are blending two blend lots together, moving bulk material from one tank to another, adding a concentrate to a tank, and topping off a tank.

When you create a tank, you enter information such as:

• The tank identifier.

• The facility to which the tank belongs.

• Tank availability information.

• Construction information (material that the tank is made from, its shape, and so on).

  Construction information is optional for the tank setup.

• Measurement information (the gauge type that is used to measure the tank's contents, and so on).

• Temperature information, such as minimum and maximum temperatures for heating and cooling.