Being able to analyze plant and equipment (capacity and automation) is essential to understanding how you and your competitors are supplying the market demand. There is often unmet demand in segments because companies do not or cannot produce enough units. If you successfully analyze industry capacity, your team could benefit from these shortfalls.

Each product has its own production line where you can set capacity and automation. Capacity represents the company’s ability to produce units of its product. Think of capacity as your manufacturing plant. For each unit of capacity, there are two shifts of workers that can use your manufacturing plant to produce your products, which represents a first and second shift. So if your product has a capacity of 1000, this means you can produce up to 2000 units of your product.

Automation represents the robot-to-worker ratio in your manufacturing plant. A higher ratio of robots will provide your company with a lower labor cost. However, this will increase the amount of time it takes your products to be updated.

You will need:

The Production Analysis report (page 4) of the Capstone Courier for Round 0

On the Production Analysis page, look at the table of products (the Andrews company is displayed below). The highlighted boxes (plus a little math!) are where you will find the information you need to complete the analysis.

Production Costs Activity

Use the table below with page 4 of the Courier to complete the activity.

	First Shift Capacity	First and Second Shift Capacity	Automation Level	Cost to Double Capacity	Cost to Raise Automation to 10
Company	Found under "Capacity Next Round"	Capacity Next Round x 2 (shifts)	Found under "Automation Next Round"	Increasing capacity is $6 per unit with an adjustment for automation.	Increasing automation is per unit of capacity
Industry	Total the capacity of each product in that segment	Total capacity of each product in that segment X 2		Formula is: First Shift Capacity x [$6 + ($4 x automation level)] Example Input: 500	Formula is: First Shift Capacity x [$4 x (10 - automation level)] Example Input: 700

*In the simulation, the input cells are in thousands (‘000’s), so an input of 1 is actually 1000 units. So, in the example below 500,000 units is inputted as 500 in the cell. This applies to dollar values as well.

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Capacity Analysis
Segment	Product Name	First Shift Capacity		First & Second Shift Capacity		Automation Level	Cost to Double Capacity	Cost to Raise Automation to 10.0
		Company	Industry	Company	Industry
Traditional
Low End
High End
Performance
Size

Name Able Acre Adam Aft Agape Primary Segment Sold 999 1,763 366 358 314 Trad Low Unit Units Inven High Pfmn Size 39 tory Revision Date 189 11/21/2010 5/25/2009 4/18/2012 6/30/2011 5/25/2011 40 78 62 Age Dec.31 MTBF 3.1 17500 4.6 14000 1.7 23000 2.5 25000 2.6 19000 Pfmn Size Coord Coord 5.5 3.0 8.0 9.4 4.0 Price 14.5 $28.00 17.0 $21.00 12.0 $38.00 15.5 $33.00 11.0 $33.00 Material Labor Cost Cost $11.59 $7.49 $7.81 $7.12 $15.98 $8.57 $15.87 $8.57 $13.62 $8.57 2nd Shift & Contr. Over- Marg. time 29% 0% 27% 33% 23% 0% 30% 0% 30% 0% Auto mation Next Round ooooo! 4.0 5.0 45333 3.0 3.0 3.0 Capacity Next Plant Round Utiliz. 1,800 66% 1,400 129% 900 45% 600 73% 600 63%