1) Eric Johnson makes billiard balls in his New England plant. With recent increases in his costs,...
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1) Eric Johnson makes billiard balls in his New England plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a new-found interest in efficiency.
Eric is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. He would like to know if his organization is maintaining the manufacturing average of 3% increase in productivity. He has the following data:
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2) Show the productivity change for each category and then determine the improvement for labor-hours, the typical standard for comparison.
Also, if Eric determines his costs to be as follows:
• Labor $10 per hour
• Resin $5 per pound
• Capital 1% per month of investment
• Energy $.50 per BTU
Show the productivity change, for one month last year versus one month this year, on a multifactor basis with dollars as the commondenominator.
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OutPut Produced Last year Now Units 1000 1000 Input Usage quantity Last year Now Last Years Producti...View the full answer
