Production capacity plan

Capacity is defined, in the context of manufacturing, as the maximum rate of production and the ability to yield production. Capacity planning is concerned with defining all resources and factors that affect the ability of a manufacturer to produce including equipment, labor, space, and time... 

The initial investment will cover plant and machinery, civil structures (including administration building, stores, and maintenance shed), infrastructure for water treatment, storage tanks for products, storage yard for raw sulfur, road for internal movement, storm water drains, effluent treatment plant, etc. The capital investment will thus depend both on the production capacity planned for each of the products for the present and the future and on the infrastructure required at present and in the future. 

Some of the process units and machinery from the plant can be used as such in future also, while some additional equipments may be required for the product mix and production capacities planned for the future. Some existing units may need only upgradation. 

The product mix and the production capacities planned for the present and as per planning for the future shall be considered for making a list of the process units and utilities required. The list shall clearly indicate horsepowers (as well as operating voltage, phases, and frequency) and running hours of each motor which will be... 

In addition to environmental and safety factors, some of the early decline in manufacture was hastened by a series of plant shutdowns between 1971 and 1973 resulting primarily from the high costs of the acetylene-based process. No new production capacity is planned in the United States for the foreseeable future. 

There are 12 producers of ethylene oxide ia the United States. Table 9 shows the plant locations, estimated capacities, and types of processes employed. The total U.S. production capacity for 1992 was ca 3.4 x 10 metric tons. The percentages of total domestic production made by the air- and oxygen-based processes are ca 20 and 80%, respectively. The largest producer is Union Carbide Corp. with approximately one-third of the United States ethylene oxide capacity. About 94% of domestic ethylene oxide capacity is located on the Gulf Coast near secure and plentiful ethylene suppHes. Plans for additional U.S. production ia the 1990s have been announced by Union Carbide (incremental expansions), Eormosa Plastics (at Pt. Comfort, Texas), and Shell (at Geismar, Louisiana) (101). 

The basic objectives of budgets are planning and control. The first step is to determine the hmiting factor. For example, budgeted sales cannot exceed the maximum productive capacity of the available plant. Since all the activities in the plan are interrelated, the extent of the plan is determined by the limiting factor. 

These characteristics influence furnace plan area, furnace volume, and burning zone size reqmred to maintain steam production capacity for a given fuel grade or quahty. 

Table 35.5 Air consumption of pneumatic equipment Examp/e of ca/cu/af/on The following calculation is typical of a medium-sized engineering workshop including a foundry, where a high degree of mechanization is to be carried out by means of compressed air-driven machines and tools. Listed in the table are the tools and other pneumatic devices which are expected to be included in the installation at full production capacity. The use factor of the different tools is calculated in connection with production planning and thus it is possible to establish the average total air consumption.

Production planning includes considerations on production objectives over a certain time horizon given marketing forecasts for prices and product demands, equipment availability, and inventories. This is a macrolevel problem of the allocation of production capacity, time, product inventories, and labour and energy resources, so as to determine the production goals that maximize the total profit over an extended period of time into the future (e.g. a few months to a few years). 

As the service level depends on the production capacity and the production strategy, it is obvious that both should be optimized. This means first to choose the optimal capacities for the production lines and the buffers (warehouses, tanks, silos) when planning a new factory or an extension. 

Input data like demand, procurement offers, starting inventories and shipments as well as production capacities gathered in the first half of the planning process are entered or uploaded automatically into the database. 

A license to produce Kebony has been acquired by the parquet floor manufacturer Boen Bruk AS, who have production facilities in Lithuania. Kebony Products DA have a production facility of 5 000 m per annum capacity, which has been established by WPT, Boen Bruk and Ole Schrpder Co. AS at Herpya Industripark, Porsgrunn, Norway. A further plant is planned with a production capacity of 15 000 m per annum. 

The Shadgum NGL plant has been in production since January 1, 1980. Full production is planned for 1981. The Uthmaniyah NGL plant is planned for 1982 for full production. Table 3 shows how the country s NGL and sulfur capacity will grow. 

The world production capacity for hydrazine in 1981 was estimated to be about 36 thousand tonnes, not including countries with planned economies at that time (WHO, 1987). Production capacity estimates for hydrazine hydrate in 1988 were 25 thousand tonnes in the United States, 10 thousand tonnes in Germany, 10 thousand tonnes in France, 5 thousand tonnes in Japan and 3 thousand tonnes in the United Kingdom (Schirmann, 1989). Production capacity estimates for hydrazine solutions in 1992 were 16 500 tonnes in the United States, 6400 tonnes in Germany, 6100 tonnes in France,... 

Estimated woddwide annual caprolactam production capacities are shown in Table 3. New plant construction is planned in Korea, Taiwan, India, China, and Indonesia. Total new capacity over the next 10 years could exceed 500,000 tons per year. 

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