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Utilization and Efficutilizattion and Efficiency Problems Operations Managementiency Problems

The document discusses utilization and efficiency problems at various manufacturing plants and university programs. It provides examples of calculating utilization when a plant's design capacity exceeds its effective capacity due to equipment changeover times. It also gives examples of calculating efficiency based on a plant's effective capacity and actual output, which may be limited by issues like material delays or employee absences. Finally, it asks the reader to calculate the utilization and efficiency of a university business program based on its design enrollment capacity, enforced lower ceiling, and actual enrollment last semester.

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Utilization and Efficutilizattion and Efficiency Problems Operations Managementiency Problems

The document discusses utilization and efficiency problems at various manufacturing plants and university programs. It provides examples of calculating utilization when a plant's design capacity exceeds its effective capacity due to equipment changeover times. It also gives examples of calculating efficiency based on a plant's effective capacity and actual output, which may be limited by issues like material delays or employee absences. Finally, it asks the reader to calculate the utilization and efficiency of a university business program based on its design enrollment capacity, enforced lower ceiling, and actual enrollment last semester.

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UTILIZATION AND EFFICIENCY PROBLEMS

7.1 If a plant was designed to produce 7,000 hammers per day but is limited to making 6,000 hammers because of the time needed to change equipment between styles of hammers, what is the utilization? For the past month, the plant in Problem 7.1, which has an effective capacity of 6,500, has made only 4,500 hammers per day because of material delay, employee absences, and other problems. What is its efficiency? If a plant has an effective capacity of 6,500 and an efficiency of 88%, what is the actual (planned) output? A plant has an effective capacity of 900 units per day and produces 800 units per day with its product mix; what is its efficiency? Material delays have routinely limited production of household sinks to 400 units per day. If the plant efficiency is 80%, what is the effective capacity? What is the expected output for a plant with a design capacity of 108 chairs per day, if its effective capacity is 90 chairs and its efficiency is 90%? A work center operates 2 shifts per day 5 days per week (8 hours per shift) and has 4 machines of equal capability. This is the effective capacity. If the work center has a system efficiency of 95%, what is the expected output in hours per week? The effective capacity and efficiency for the next quarter at MMU Mfg. in Waco, Texas, for each of three departments are shown.

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7.6 7.7

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Department Design Fabrication Finishing

Effective Capacity 93.600 156.000 62.400

Recent Efficiency 0,95 1,03 1,05

Compute the expected production for next quarter for each department. 7.11 Southeastern Oklahoma State Universitys business program has the facilities and faculty to handle an enrollment of 2,000 students per semester. However, in an effort to limit class sizes to a "reasonable" level (under 200, generally), Southeastern's dean, Tom Choi, placed a ceiling on enrollment of 1,500 students. Although there was ample demand for business courses last semester, conflicting schedules allowed only 1,450 students to take business courses. What are the utilization and efficiency of this system?

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