CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE THESIES In today’s competitive economic environment‚ customers do not just prefer but demand manufacturers to provide quality products in a timely fashion at competitive prices. To satisfy this requirement‚ manufacturers need to plan necessary and sufficient capacity to meet market demands. However‚ capacity planning is a very challenging task for many manufacturers. In Bangladesh now as well as the other industries ceramic industries need to compete
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ca CAPACITY AND DEMAND MANAGEMENT Capacity can be defined as ‘the maximum level of value added activity over a period of time that the service process can achieve under normal operating conditions’. (Johnston and Clark‚ 2001) The essential task of capacity management is to look at the current performance of a service identify any bottle necks‚ understand the workload places on it and the underlying business drivers that may affects future traffic. The next task is to access the workload growth
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Name: Chris Cohick Title of Article: What is Carrying Capacity? Author and Brief Background: Kip Adams‚ QDMA Director of Education & Outreach‚ northern U.S Date of Submission: June 27‚ 2009 Carrying Capacity When first inquiring into this article‚ it gave me the impression it was going to just define carrying capacity. After further looking into it‚ I then realized it relates carrying capacity to having a successful quality deer management area. The two concepts really go hand in hand
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UNIT – 3 CAPACITY PLANNING CONCEPT: Capacity simply means the ability to hold‚ receive‚ share or accommodate. It is a productive capability or a facility. Capacity is a critical consideration for long term strategy. It is generally measured in volume of output per unit of time. Capacity is the limiting capability of a productive unit to produce within a stated time period‚ normally expressed in terms of output per unit of time. So‚ capacity is the maximum productive capability.
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Service Capacity * Service Capacity is defined as the maximum level of value-added activity‚ which can be consistently achieved over a period of time under normal operating conditions. * The important consideration is that the service provider should be able to sustain provision of service at such a rate comfortably under normal working conditions. * It can be expressed as : 1. Max. number of patient attended by a Doctor / hr. 2. Max. number of calls attended by a Executive
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capacity management - the meaning of capacity Introduction The capacity of a production unit (e.g. machine‚ factory) is its ability to produce or do that which the customer requires. In production and operations management‚ three types of capacity are often referred to: Potential Capacity | The capacity that can be made available to influence the planning of senior management (e.g. in helping them to make decisions about overall business growth‚ investment etc). This is essentially a long-term
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Chapter 12: Capacity Planning Question #1: Why are facilities decisions often made by top management? What is the role in these decisions of operations‚ marketing‚ finance‚ accounting‚ engineering‚ and human resources? “Facilities decisions often made up by the top management and the chief executive‚ and the board of directors because these decisions are strategic in nature‚ they require the input of all functional areas in the firm.” It is longest-term planning decision that contains all the important
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Capacity Planning Based on time horizon or duration it is viewed in three (i) Long-range Capacity Planning Time horizon is of more than one or two years. It is carried for productive resources which a long time. Long-range capacity planning requires participation and approval of top management personnel. (ii) Intermediate-range Capacity Planning It has a time horizon for 6 to 18 months. It may be varied by such alternative such as hiring off or laying off labour‚ purchasing or making new tools
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Capacity Planning The overall objective of strategic capacity planning is to reach an optimal level where production capabilities meet demand. Capacity needs include equipment‚ space‚ and employee skills. If production capabilities are not meeting demand‚ high costs‚ strains on resources‚ and customer loss may result. It is important to note that capacity planning has many long term concerns given the long term commitment of resources. Managers should recognize the broader effects capacity
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to undertake the manufacture of a product‚ and is weighing three capacity alternatives: small job shop‚ large job shop‚ and repetitive manufacturing. The small job shop has fixed costs of $3‚000 per month‚ and variable costs of $10 per unit. The larger job shop has fixed costs of $12‚000 per month and variable costs of $3 per unit. The repetitive manufacturing plant has fixed costs of $30‚000 and variable costs of $1 per unit. Demand for the product is expected to be 1‚000 units per month with "moderate"
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