Capacity Analysis 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: The Production Analysis report (page 4) of the Capstone Courier for Round O 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. Unit Inven Primary Segment Trad Low High Units Sold 999 1,763 366 358 314 Name Able Acre Adam Aft Agape Labor Cost S7.49 $7.12 Age Pfmn Size Dec. 31 MTBF Coord Coord Price 3.1 17500 5.5 14.5 $28.00 4.6 14000 3.0 17,0 $21.00 1.7 23000 8.0 12.0 $38.00 2.5 25000 9.4 15.5 $33.00 2.6 19000 4.0 11.0 $33.00 Contr. Marg 29% 27% tory 189 39 40 78 62 Material Cost $11.59 $7.81 $15.98 $15.87 $13.62 Revision Date 11/21/2010 5/25/2009 4/18/2012 6/30/2011 5/25/2011 2nd Shift & Over- time 0% 30% 0% 0% 0% Auto mation Next Round 4.0 5.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Capacity Next Plant Round Utiliz. 1,800 66% 1,400 129% 900 45% 600 73% 600 63% 33% Pfmn S8.57 $8.57 Size $8.57 23% 30% Production Costs Activity Use the table below with page 4 of the Courier to complete the activity. First Shift Capacity First and Second Shift Capacity Automation Level Cost to Double Capacity Cost to Raise Automation to 10 Company Found under "Capacity Next Round" Capacity Next Round x2 (shifts) Increasing capacity is $6 per unit with an adjustment for automation. Increasing automation is per unit of capacity Found under "Automation Next Round" 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. Incomplete Capacity Analysis Product Segment Name Automation Level First Shift Capacity Company First & Second Shift Capacity Company Industry Cost to Double Capacity Cost to Raise Automation to 10.0 Industry Traditional Daze 1800 0 0 0 0 Low End Dell 1400 0 0 0 0 High End Dixie 900 Performance Dot 600 Size Dune 600 The Round 0 Capstone Courier Previous Next