Capacity Analysis
Being able to analyze plant and equipment (capacity and automation) is essential to understanding how you and your competitors are supplying the market demand. There is often unmet demand in segments because companies do not or cannot produce enough units. If you successfully analyze industry capacity, your team could benefit from these shortfalls.
Each product has its own production line where you can set capacity and automation. Capacity represents the company’s ability to produce units of its product. Think of capacity as your manufacturing plant. For each unit of capacity, there are two shifts of workers that can use your manufacturing plant to produce your products, which represents a first and second shift. So if your product has a capacity of 1000, this means you can produce up to 2000 units of your product.
Automation represents the robot-to-worker ratio in your manufacturing plant. A higher ratio of robots will provide your company with a lower labor cost. However, this will increase the amount of time it takes your products to be updated.
You will need:
On the Production Analysis page, look at the table of products (the Andrews company is displayed below). The highlighted boxes (plus a little math!) are where you will find the information you need to complete the analysis.
Production Costs Activity
Use the table below with page 4 of the FastTrack to complete the
activity.
First Shift Capacity | First and Second Shift Capacity | Automation Level | Cost to Double Capacity | Cost to Raise Automation to 10 | |
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Company | Found under "Capacity Next Round" | Capacity Next Round x 2 (shifts) | Found under "Automation Next Round" | Increasing capacity is $6 per unit with an adjustment for automation. | Increasing automation is per unit of capacity |
Industry | Total the capacity of each product in that segment | Total capacity of each product in that segment X 2 | Formula is: First Shift Capacity x [$6 + ($4 x automation level)] Example Input: 500 |
Formula is: First Shift Capacity x [$4 x (10 - automation level)] Example Input: 700 |
* In the simulation, the input cells are in thousands
(‘000’s), so an input of 1 is actually 1000 units. So, in the
example below 500,000 units is inputted as 500 in the cell. This
applies to dollar values as well.
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Product Name |
First Shift Capacity |
First & Second Shift Capacity |
Automation Level |
Cost to Double Capacity |
Cost to Raise Automation to 10.0 |
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Company | Industry | Company | Industry | ||||
Since, as given by your table is for the traditional segment, first shift capacity , company is 1800 and industry is 10800, the total number of product is sagment is b the same can be drived by the data from the second shift capacity i.e. company is 3600 and industry is 36400 i.e.6 times that of the company capacity. The formula to calculate the industry capacity says that it is the total capacity of each product in that segment.
If we assume, like the traditional segment other segment also have 6 products then industry capacity can be calculated just by multiplying the company capacity rules.
Segment | Product name | first shift capacity | first and second shift | ||
company |
industry |
company | industry | ||
traditional | Able | 10800 | 10800 | 3600 | 21600 |
low end | Acre | 1400 | 8400 | 2800 | 16800 |
high end | Adam | 900 | 5400 | 1800 | 10800 |
performance | Aft | 600 | 3600 | 1200 | 7200 |
size | Agape | 600 | 3600 | 1200 | 7200 |
Note:- If the number of products in different segement differs, then multiply the company capacity with the respective number of products in each segment to get the industry capacity.
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