industry was seeing a downward trend since 1987‚ with 1986 being the peak year. Consequently‚ ACC’s last major expansion occurred in 1986 bringing its capacity to 600 million units per year. The 1991 utilization was 70% and was expected to reach 85% by 1996. Because of the depressed market conditions‚ the Sunnyvale plant made no major investments in capacity or new technology since 1986. DJC Corporation of Japan was a dominant supplier of electrical connectors in Japan. It was rumoured to be one of the
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employs 248 staffers (including twelve customer-service agents and twenty geographically-distributed sales representatives)‚ maintains a 50‚000 sq-ft manufacturing facility (also in California)‚ and produces ~2000 lenses (one-third of max theoretical capacity‚ using an advanced plastic-rod grinding/machining process) per day. Sof-Optics fulfills two types of contact lens orders – “standard” (off-the-shelf preformed lenses‚ in forty variants‚ fitting ~75% of the human
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existing set up the dryers that process wet berries are a bottleneck at 600bbls/hr capacity. Our analysis recommends installation of 2 additional driers which will augment the drying capacity to 1000bbls/hr. This will be in line with forecast that quantity of wet berries arriving at the plant will increase in the coming time. Separator is common resource for handling both wet and dry berries with capacity of 1200bbls/hr. After installing an additional dryer facility‚ separator becomes a
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address its capacity problems. Thus‚ Vivian Espania‚ the general manager‚ has asked Ron Garcia‚ the new management trainee‚ to help the company in addressing its issues. Problems of the case Mexicana is planning to refinance some of its debts. As such‚ Vivian would want to optimize the profit for the month of April using its limited capacity and resources. However‚ the main problem is this: Mexicana is booking more orders than it can fill (booking orders > production using present capacity). Although
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economic slump in the industry but infact to post profits year-on-year end. Capacity utilization of IndiGo airlines fleet The utilization rate of IndiGo is around 16hours a day which is infact one of the highest in the industry. Thus even without using too many airplanes‚ the airlines can provide its ferrying service to a larger number of people. On an average its passenger loads have been around 90%. High seating Capacity of aircrafts Indigo operates a fleet of 62 aircraft and has been expanding
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A Project Report On: Comparative Financial Analysis Of [pic] SHREE CEMENT LTD. (BANGUR NAGAR‚ BEAWAR‚ DISTT. AJMER) UNDER GUIDANCE OF Mr. N.C. JAIN (AVP- Finance)
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Problem/Issue: The MD of Nirmal Rayon has to decide whether to expand the capacity to 7500 tonnes. The MD wants to get reliable volume forecast for the next ten few years to make the decision. Situation Analysis: i) Textile Industry: The volume forecast has been calculated using chain ratio method. The estimates given by consultant have taken the following assumptions which seem valid: a) Per capita consumption – Keeping the past scenario in mind‚ the estimate of 14.5 meters seems pretty reasonable
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BENIHANA Our suggestion to Benihana is to expand the target market and include a young generations as well as open new chain of family friendly restaurants. Gaining younger generations market could be accomplished by development of a mix of Japanese-Chinese quick cuisine restaurants/ food courts. Younger generation is very familiar with Chinese food‚ which is affordable‚ quick and tasty. Incorporating a Japanese twist to what is already widely accepted could be a refreshing idea and take a typical
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Product Gross Margin Calculation vs. Product Contribution Margin Calculation Assigning the overhead costs to the products shows how profitable the products are after deducting all cost. However‚ it is important to find the appropriate method of overhead cost allocation. In Sippican’s case the traditional accounting method is used‚ which does not reflect the real resource usage of the different product lines. The correct method in this case would be to apply the time-driven ABC approach for cost
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Supercycle No Longer the Base Case Global ethylene utilization of 90% is no longer a high probability in 2014. Demand continues to lag historical trends‚ and we do not envision a positive inflection. After two weak years‚ Chinese data are improving against soft comps‚ while developed markets’ decelerating demand or outright declines continue. We now forecast peak utilization of ~89% in 2016 vs. our prior forecast of 90% in 2014. We expect utilization rates to decline thereafter due to increased supply
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