Texas plant and Oregon Plant are two windows manufactured plants under Persons manufactured company. The proposed allocation of upcoming year forecasted demand as below:

Pearson operated on a 250-day per year production schedule. All Pearson?s plants followed a level capacity production schedule, producing the same volume of windows each day based upon average annual forecasted demand. All Pearson plants operated one production shift that worked 5 days per week. Person required each plant to conform to strict company policy ? the daily shift lasted for 8 paid hours. The policy prohibited overtime or second shifts, which was fine with Pearson management, given their concerns with cost management. The preferred utilization rate for all plants was between 85% and 90%.

• Texas Plant: Daily capacity per line is 351 units for standard windows, and 144 units for architectural windows. The plant has five identical production lines. .
• Oregon Plant: Daily capacity per line is 1,080 units for either standard windows or architectural windows. Production times are the same for standard and architectural windows at Oregon due to the use of robotics. The Oregon plant has only one high-capacity production line.?

Question ?

Are the capacity of the two plants sufficient to deal with the new demand under the proposal? Please compare two plans assigning either three or four lines to standard windows in the Texas plant.?

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Texas Plant 270,000 50,000 320,000 Oregon Plant 130,000 180,000 310,000 Total Demand Standard Window 400,000 Architectural Windows 230,000 Total plant production Texas Plant 270,000 50,000 320,000 Oregon Plant 130,000 180,000 310,000 Total Demand Standard Window 400,000 Architectural Windows 230,000 Total plant production

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Answer Capacity calculation daily capacity per line X no of lines X no of days of working 1 Capacity ... View the full answer