Question

n a job shop, effective capacity is only 48 percent of design capacity, and actual output is 47 percent of effective output. What design capacity would be needed to achieve an actual output of 17 job units? Calculate the required design capacity to achieve the specified actual output in a job shop context.

Answer 1

To achieve an actual output of 17 job units in a job shop, the required design capacity would be approximately 75.35 job units.

Step-by-step explanation:

In a job shop, effective capacity is only 48 percent of design capacity, and actual output is 47 percent of effective output.

To calculate the required design capacity to achieve an actual output of 17 job units, we need to work backwards through the percentages.

Since actual output is 47 percent of effective output, we can calculate the effective output by dividing the actual output (17 job units) by 0.47: effective output = 17 / 0.47 = 36.17 job units.

Next, since effective capacity is only 48 percent of design capacity, we can calculate the design capacity by dividing the effective output (36.17 job units) by 0.48: design capacity = 36.17 / 0.48 ≈ 75.35 job units.