Beth’s Bakery can comfortably produce 62 brownies in one day. If Beth takes some
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Beth’s Bakery can comfortably produce 62 brownies in one day. If Beth takes some unusual measures, such as hiring her two aunts to help in the kitchen and work overtime, she can produce up to 102 brownies in one day.
1) What are the design and effective capacities for Beth’s Bakery?
Effective capacity = ________ Brownies
Design capacity = _________ Brownies
2) If Beth is currently producing 66 brownies, compute the capacity utilization for both measures.
Utilization Effective = ______%
Utilization Design = ______%
Explanation / Answer
Effective Capacity = Capacity an entity can achieve in its currently within its prevailing constraints.
Herein this 62 as that is the number of brownies that can be baked per day cyclically.
Design capacity is the theoretical maximum output of system:
Herein we assume that the surrogate measure of the design capacity is being alluded to by saying that adding more resources the system at best can produce 102 brownies - hence we would take this as the design capacity.
Effective Utilization = (Actual output / Design capacity)*100
Actual output = 66, design capacity = 102
Effective utilization = (66/102)*100 = 64.70%
The efficiency = (Actual output /Effective capacity)*100 = (66/62)*100 = 106.5%
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