Capital planning

Nonetheless a full mobilization of the Ramsey island militias had been ordered. Troops were digging in around the capital. Plans were being drawn up to free those islands like Kesteven which had been lost to the enemy. 

The best working capital plan Determining the right form and function of inventory versus constraining inventory or focusing on just inventory levels. 

Clinical Device Use and/or Application Capital Planning Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)/Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Management Pre-clinical Procedure Set-up/Testing... 

Outputs Refers to the outcomes of the planning process and covers the SC strategic plan, organizational and capability requirements, and required resources and capital plans. 

Previous capital plans to expand new plants, productirai lines and warehouse facilities... 

Equipment planning Functional program strategic planning Capital planning Renewal... 

Allows ready consolidation of a plan for the current planning year and coordination with annual operating plans. Typically, operating plans should be supported by technology, and presenting both the operating plan and the capital plan in the same context reinforces this position. 

Define Value Lists for Selected Fields. This refers to various pull-down menus or value lists in a CMMS (e.g., equipment condition new, good, average, poor, replace). This standard pnU-down menn will allow for consistency in information provided and utilized. For example, when equipment condition information is collected during PM, the information becomes immediately available to management so it may be utilized for capital planning. This allows for the identification of equipment needing replacement and, along with criticahty, these items can be prioritized for replacement. 

Food comes too late, the amount of food distributed is so diluted that each household receives too litde to materially afiFect their welfare. In the case of works programs, the stop-start nature of programs prevents them having a sustained impact on the incomes of the poor and the absence of counterpart funds and integration with local capital plans means they often do not result in creation of lasting, productive assets. 

S. Pantry, Health and Safety A Guide to Sources of Information, CPI Information Review no. 6, 2nd fully revised and updated edition, 1985, 10.00, ISBN 0 906011 29 9. Capital Planning Information, The Grey House, Broad Street, Stamford, Lines PE9 IPR, UK. 

Eastman Kodak has identified 10 core competencies and developed a process for their management and utilization within the company (29). Similarly, Eaton Corporation selected seven core technical competencies, ranked them in importance, assessed their importance vs the known state-of-the-art for the industry, and developed action plans to extend the life of each (30). Eaton subsequently found the company could bring to market products designed with proven building blocks, thus minimizing risk and the need for additional capital equipment. In addition, the competencies were found to be reservoirs of proprietary advantage that had not previously been put to work. 

Types and Accuracy of Estimates Capital-cost estimates may be required for a variety of reasons, among others to enable feasibility studies to be carried out, to enable a manufacturing company to select from alternative investments, to assist in selection from alternative designs, to provide information for planning the appropriation of capital, and to enable a contractor to bid on a new project. It is therefore essential to achieve the greatest accuracy of estimation with a minimum expenditure of time and money. 

Type of Plant Capital Cost /kW Heat Rate Btu/kWh kJ/kWh Net Efficiency Variable Operation Maintenance ( /MWh) Fixed Operation Maintenance ( /MWh) Availability Reliability Time from Planning to Completion Months... 

The gas turbine is the best suited prime mover when the needs at hand such as capital cost, time from planning to completion, maintenance costs, and fuel costs are considered. The gas turbine has the lowest maintenance and capital cost of any major prime mover. It also has the fastest completion time to full operation of any other plant. Its disadvantage was its high heat rate but this has been addressed and the new turbines are among the most efficient types of prime movers. The combination of plant cycles further increases the efficiencies to the low 60s. 

Fixed capital investments are characterized by the fact that they have to be replaced after a number of years commonly referred to as service life or useful life period. This replacement is not necessarily due to wear and tear of equipment. Other factors include technological advances that may render the equipment obsolete. Furthermore, over the usefiil life of the equipment, the plant should plan to recover the capital cost expenditure. In this regard, the notion of depreciation is useful. Depreciation or amortization is an annual allowance which is set aside to account for the wear, tear, and obsolescence of a process such that by the end of the useful life of the process, enough fund is accumulated to replace the process. The simplest method for determining depreciation is referred to as the straight line method in which... 

Capital Project Review Community Outreach Contractor Program Crisis Management Emergency Planning Emergency Devices/Alarms... 

It is important to remember that unexpected benefits may arise from integration. You should actively look for these benefits and document them. It may be possible to improve some of these benefits by small modifications to the plan or integration framework. Such additional work should be undertaken only with the appropriate approvals. Never the less, if any benefits would only be achieved with the integration project, you should include them in your overall statement of benefits. An example of this might be the better allocation of capital to risk reduction efforts when an integrated risk assessment is done-addressing several different types of risk. 

The planning processes described herein were traditional in nature, with little variation from year to year. Growth was steady, equipment technology advancements were available for the conditions expected, and while utility facilities were capital-intensive, a regulated guaranteed return on investment resulted in adequate financing capital. The utility planner had a vision of the future with acceptable accuracy. 

The first phase is a clear definition of the scope of work that is to be performed during the shutdown or maintenance outage. This definition must be more than a macro-level listing of the major tasks that are to be performed. Instead, each of these major or macro-level tasks must be fully defined. The purpose of this procedure is to provide an effective method of planning, material control, and follow-up of repetitive, non-repetitive, and capital shutdown work. 

Shutdown work is classified three ways (1) repetitive, (2) non-repetitive, or (3) capital projects. All three require operations supervisor s approval. All shutdown work is sent directly to the maintenance central planning department. 

The budgets will also require estimates of expenditure upon equipment of a capital nature in the plan periods. This expenditure will normally fall into the following categories ... 

The justifications for adopting a planned maintenance policy rather than spending extra capital to ensure that the component lasts the life of the plant are summarised in Fig. 9.9. 

A prerequisite to a corrodable material being used is that it is known to have a useful and reasonably predictable life. Planned, or unplanned downtime costs money and the intervals between planned replacements must be of reasonable duration. In practice, the replacement interval is usually conservative at first and then as experience accumulates, the intervals between planned replacements will usually extend. The main reason for choosing a planned maintenance policy is that on a discounted cash flow (DCF) calculation over the life of the plant, the cost of regular replacements including maintenance labour and downtime is less than the extra initial capital cost of a more durable material. 

Provide required size and configuration Tooling and plant capital costs to be appropriate for number of pieces and rate of production Compatible with available plant and marketing plan Provides required structural properties and quality control... 

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