Question: Calculate the efficiency and utilization for the following problems. Show your work and have the units on all of your numbers. a . A houseboat

Calculate the efficiency and utilization for the following problems. Show your work and
have the units on all of your numbers.
a. A houseboat builder has the facilities, labor and supplies to build 10 boats in a month.
For January, he planned to build eight boats. His actual production was seven.
b. A trailer manufacturer developed her process to be able to produce six trailers in a day.
For Monday, she scheduled the production of five trailers, but her production operation
produced four.
c. An ice cream manufacturing company designed their production operations to make
22.5 gallons per hour. The production operation produces ice cream 24 hours a day and
30 days per month. In July, the operation plans to be shut down for two 24-hour
periods for the Fourth of July and plans for 10 hours of type-change time over the
month. They are planning for no maintenance hours because they scheduled those in
June. During the month, they kept this planned schedule exactly, and in addition had
13 hours of equipment breakdowns and 21 hours of quality-related problems.

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