look at the best operating level, it is capacity maximum*7= 623 Current utilization rate is around 445/623 = 71.4% And we start performing surgeries on Saturdays too, daily capacity = 89*6 = 534 Therefore, the utilization rate will be around 534/623 = 85.7% As you can notice, there is an increase in the utilization of the current facility by almost (534-445)*100/445 = 20% at no extra costs. This increase in utilization rate does not come at the cost of some new construction but utilizing the
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Michael Greenberg Macroeconomic Policy 10/15/2013 Capacity Utilization of China For a long time, we have suggested that because of China’s GDP growth being driven primarily by investment, the end result will inevitably be over-capacity. This has been rather apparent in some industries such as steel, cement and wind power. We also believe that the construction boom after the 2008/09 stimulus has already led to over-building of residential real estate. The only problem we all have is that
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Subject: Business Strategy Executive Summary: Throughout most of its history, the Coors Brewing Company (Coors) has been a regionalized brewer within the United States, specializing in high-quality beer through by virtue of its source water selection, stringent production standards, and cold filtered brewing approach. As the company expanded its distribution to new markets within the U.S. in attempt to gain market share, it made a strategic decision to maintain a majority of its brewing operations
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Case Study: Lily Tulip Problem Statement: Lily-Tulip has ordered four machines designed to manufacturer their patented extruder foam cups, effectively tripling this capacity. Doug Smith, vice-president of sales, must decide if all or any of the machines should be converted to produce the coextruded foam cups that were recently developed by the company. Pertinent Facts: Industry and Market information: • The disposable cup industry serves the fast food, convenience store, and restaurant markets
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incurring a huge investment cost if there are still other methods which are more cost efficient. Also investing in an additional plant might not be the best option since the Plant Capacity Utilization is only peak during the third and fourth of the month. During the first and second half of the month, Plant Capacity utilization can’t even reach half of its potential capacity. Another countermeasure that they can do is to build up a finished goods inventory in the first half of the month in preparation for
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The Indian cement industry is the 2nd largest market after China. It had a total capacity of about 300 m tons (MT) as of financial year ended 2010-11. Consolidation has taken place with the top three players alone controlling almost 35% of the capacity. However, the balance capacity still remains quite fragmented. Despite the fact that the Indian cement industry has grown at a commendable rate in the last decade, registering a growth of nearly 9% to 10%, the per capita consumption still remains substantially
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Rev. March 11, 1996 Executive Shirt Company Case Analysis-The Executive Shirt Company (Group Project) Part A Calculations | Current Process | Mike's Plan | Ike's Plan | | Regular Shirts | Regular & Custom Shirts | Regular Shirts | Custom Shirts | A) Actual Cycle Time (Min/shirt) | 2 minutes per cuff / 4 workers = 0.5 | 120 minutes for cutting / 480 shirts worth = 0.25 < labor content of cuffs at 0.5 CT | All labor content / one less worker for each category while cutting is
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20 Roto-Moulded Plastic Water Storage Tanks PRODUCT CODE QUALITY AND STANDARDS PRODUCTION CAPACITY MONTH AND YEAR OF PREPARATION PREPARED BY : 303701005 : IS 12701:1989 : 9000 tanks of 500 L, 750 L, 1000L and 5000L. : January, 2003 : Small Industries Service Institute 4th Floor, Harsiddha Chambers, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad-380014. Phone Nos.:27540619, 27544248, 27543147 Fax No.: 079-7540339 E-mail sisiabd@gujl.guj.nic.in INTRODUCTION Roto Moulded Plastic Water Storage Tanks are made from Linear
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Case Analysis Write-Up #1 Case Study: Tots-R-Us Questions: 1. Compute the cost of a single preschool class and a single birthday party using the current cost system. 2. Would you recommend that TRU continue to allocate the building-related costs only to the preschool program? What alternative allocation method would you suggest? Justify your answer. Ignore consideration of excess capacity discussed in question 3 below for this answer. Please discuss any additional information that you
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Case report: Paediatric Orthopaedic Clinic 1- What is capacity utilization at every step in the process? What is the direct resource utilization? Using the data provided in the case, we are able to compile all data necessary to compute the capacity utilization at the clinic. Activity | # of Staff | Available time | Activity time | Number of Patients | Time needed | Utilization10 | | | /Staff | Total | N | F | N | F | N | F | Total | | 1. Front Desk | | | | | | | | | | |
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