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we have discussed processing, equipment, factory layout of cereal tea. but we have some problems that are: 1. for factory layout---capacity, which means how amount of ingradients we need to prepare, and how amount of product will be produced. 2. for equipment layout is that need to know which equipment we will select 3. for materials: green tea leaves-Monica thinks we need to prepare green tea leaves from fresh tea leaves, however, i disagree with her, because i think our topic is cereals and pulses, if we focus on green tea, what main topic for our group?and i think we can buy dried green tea leaves from other companies, but my suggestion is rejected. our group used long time to search green tea leave processing, however, John have found one literature that showed processing of tea leaves have two manufactory, one is from fresh leaves to dried leaves, and one is granding the dried leaves. so John said we do not need fresh tea leaves.

and then, we are discussing the flow chart of processing, Monica and John have searched a lot of literature to find equipments for each step, storage conditions for each ingradient, and factory layout examples. John and me need to design the factory layout at home in order to get the final factory by ourself design, while i'm not sure is it correctly, but we still discuss the factory layout tomorrow.