A local manufacturing company operates 2 high speed machine that can be run by one operator. It has two full time machine operators employed. As they work the company can run two shifts a day. Each employee works 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. The only breaks they take are 30 minutes for lunch or dinner. They service the machine for about 30 minutes at the beginning of each shift. The machines setup time for each shift varies by type of job. Estimates of setup time are kept with each order. The machines are new and so their efficiency is estimated at 90%.

Due to a new advertising and promotion campaign many orders have been coming in. Use the following information to calculate the normal daily capacity for the company and to project next Monday's load and load percent.

Job No.

Number of parts

Setup Time (min)

Run Time (min/Unit)

10

500

5.2

0.08

20

1000

10.6

0.10

30

5000

3.4

0.12

40

4500

11.2

0.14

50

2000

15.3

0.10

• What is the normal daily capacity? (3 marks)
• What is the projected load for Monday of next week? (5 marks)
• What is the load percentage? (2 marks)