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1. How much money are we talking about? If you could reduce the MTBF cost by $.1

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Question

1. How much money are we talking about? If you could reduce the MTBF cost by $.15 per thousand hours, how much money would you have saved last year? (Hint: List your products. For each, look at the # of mtbf hours. How much per product would you save? How many did you sell? Now, how much would have been saved last year? Hint 2, should be millions). Tell how you arrived at the figure you listed.  

Name

Primary Segment

Units Sold

Unit Inventory

MTBF

Able

Trad

198

0

18000

Acre

Low

297

0

15500

Adam

Trad

577

18

23000

Aft

Pfmn

259

137

27000

Agape

Size

167

559

19000

Name

Primary Segment

Units Sold

Unit Inventory

MTBF

Able

Trad

198

0

18000

Acre

Low

297

0

15500

Adam

Trad

577

18

23000

Aft

Pfmn

259

137

27000

Agape

Size

167

559

19000

Explanation / Answer

MTBF means time between failures refers to a measure to evaluate the efficiency and reliability of a component where the measure is typically in thousands of hours between failures.

714

Thus total cost savings = $ 3,485,974

(Units produced x MTBF hours x MTBF savings / 1000 hours)

Savings per product is computed based on pro-rata basis of total cost savings

Able = $ 312,036 (198 units x 3,485,974 / 2,212 units)

Acre = $ 468,053 (297 units x 3,485,974 / 2,212 units)

Adam = $ 937,683 (595 units x 3,485,974 / 2,212 units)

Aft = $ 624,071 (396 units x 3,485,974 / 2,212 units)

Agape = $ 1,144,131 (726 units x 3,485,974 / 2,212 units)

Total units sold = 1,498 units

Product Name Units Sold Unit Inventory Units Produced MTBF Cost Savings ($) MTBF Savings ($) (A) (B) (A+B=C) (D) (F) Able          198             -               198           18,000          312,036        2.70 ($.15 x 18,000/1000) Acre          297             -               297           15,500          468,053        2.33 ($.15 x 15,500/1000) Adam          577             18             595           23,000          937,683        3.45 ($.15 x 23,000/1000) Aft          259           137             396           27,000          624,071        4.05 ($.15 x 27,000/1000) Agape          167           559             726           19,000       1,144,131        2.85 ($.15 x 19,000/1000) Total 1,498

714

            2,212            102,500       3,485,974 15.38