Capacity Utilization. Class Exercise

Always Rain Irrigation Company would like to determine capacity requirements for the

next four years. Currently $2$ production lines are in place for bronze and plastic

sprinklers. Three types of sprinklers are available in both bronze and plastic: $90-$degree

nozzle sprinklers, $180-$degree nozzle sprinklers, and $360-$degree nozzle sprinklers.

Management has forecasted demand for the next $4$ years as follows:

Plastic $90$

Plastic $180$

Plastic $360$

Bronze $90$

Bronze $180$

Bronze $360$

Both production lines can produce all different types of nozzles. Each bronze machine

requires $2$ operators to run and can produce up to $12,000$ sprinklers. The plastic

injection molding machine requires $4$ operators to run and can produce up to $200,000$

sprinklers. Three bronze machines and only one injection plastic molding machine are

available.

Complete the table below for both machine and labour requirements as well as the

capacity utilization rate for years $1,2,3,$ and $4$