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Despite these successes and the status of major SMEs in the manufacturing sector, they have failed to achieve the SME entrepreneurship confidence index. The Office of SMEs Promotion (2014) reports that the SME entrepreneurship has low confidence index in terms of the costs such as production cost, labor cost, and logistics and transportation cost, and the competitive marketplace is also related to the low confidence index. Low confidence index results in this sense affect business profits and the survival of business operations. 

Cost Calculation. The main elements determining production cost are identical for fine chemicals and commodities (see Economic evaluation), a breakdown of production cost is given in Table 2. In multipurpose plants, where different fine chemicals occupying the equipment to different extents are produced during the year, a fair allocation of costs is a more difficult task. The allocation of the product-related costs, such as raw material and utiHties, is relatively easy. It is much more difficult to allocate for capital cost, labor, and maintenance. A simplistic approach is to define a daily rent by dividing the total yearly fixed cost of the plant by the number of production days. But that approach penalizes the simple products using only part of the equipment. 

Sugar production costs energy, labor, and materials... 

Factor Methods. A more detailed product cost estimation method is to relate manufacturing cost items to a few calculated items, such as raw materials, labor, and utihties by means of simple factors (1,2). Internal accounting groups often develop factors to use with this method. This factor method is very popular. 

Direct material plus direct labor plus other direct production expenses. (This is the total variable production cost.)... 

Operating Labor The cost of operating labor is the second largest item of expense in the manufac turing cost. Labor requirements for a process can be estimated from an intelhgent study of the equipment flow sheet, paying careful attention to the various primaiy process steps such as frac tionation, filtration, etc. The hourly wage rate should be that currently paid in the company. Once the number of persons reqiiired per shift has been estimated for a particular production rate, the annual labor cost and the labor cost per unit of production can be estimated. 

The mamifac turing cost of a product is the sum of the processing or conversion cost and the cost of raw materials. The processing cost can be roughly broken down into three parts investment-related cost, labor-related cost, and utility cost. 

The productivity of labor can make enough difference in the cost of plants to justify an adjustment for location, even in early estimates. 

Tier 0 and Tier 1 costs are direct and indirect costs. They include the engineering, materials, labor, construction, contingency, etc., as well as waste-collection and transportation services (in many cases we simply transform an air pollution problem into a solid waste or wastewater problem that requires final treatment and disposal), raw-material consumption (increase or decrease), and production costs. Tier 2 and... 

In addition to the fixed capital investment needed to purchase and install process equipment and auxiliaries, there is a continuous expenditure referred to as operating cost, which is needed to operate the process. The operating cost (or manufacturing cost or production cost) includes raw materials, mass-separating agents, utilities (fuel, electricity, steam, water, refrigerants, air, etc.), catalysts, additives, labor, and maintenance. The total annualized cost of a process is defined as follows ... 

Your general aim should be to improve product quality, increase productivity, and reduce the cost of development and manufacture. However, productivity is not easy to measure with multiple products on multiple lines, each at a different stage of maturity. This makes comparisons to detect changes in productivity difficult, if not impossible. However there may be factors common to all product lines, such as labor costs. Merely outsourcing manufacture to developing countries may not improve your productivity. The labor costs may reduce but rework and warranty claims increase. Productivity is only improved if product quality has been maintained. Certain processes may also be common to more than one product line and hence improving productivity of common processes can have wide-ranging impact. 

Product designers must consider the conditions under which fabrication will take place, because these conditions affect product performance and cost. Such factors as production quantity, labor, and material cost are vital. Designers should also visualize how each product is to be fabricated. If they do not or cannot, their designs may not be satisfactory or even feasible from a production standpoint. One purpose of this book is to give designers sufficient information about manufacturing processes so that they... 

Where low-cost labor is available, operators can provide intensive manual cleaning during the annual plant shutdown period. However, this is not a model for operational efficiency, and low-cost labor is seldom that low when quality and productivity is factored in. In the long run, it usually is far better to aim for a higher operational standard from the beginning. 

Despite their flaws, batch processes have stood the test of time for a number of reasons, the most important of which is the flexibihty it brings to the manufacturer in terms of the range of products that the plant can produce, the feedstocks used to produce them, and the speed at which they can be brought to market with very limited information on physical properties, reaction kinetics, and so on (very few, if any, Michelin-starred chefs have ever measured the rheology or kinetics of their latest culinary creation). This flexibility, however, has a price which comes in the form of lower efficiencies in terms of production, energy, labor, and so on, and ultimately efficiency equates to cost However, one should never underestimate the pull of flexibility particularly, as discussed earlier in the examples of fermentation, where control of important parameters is difficult to achieve. 

Plant operating costs labor costs are particularly highlighted in this and are particularly important at the early part of the manufacturing chain, essentially when feed and product are closer to a cost-plus basis. 

The first step on transfer of the sythesis is to evaluate the discovery route, looking particularly at overall yield and purity, as well as parameters such as cost of production (cost of starting materials, solvents, labor and overhead, and disposal of waste stream), ease of removal of impurities or catalyst from products, and the degree of hazard associated with solvents, reactants, intermediates, and products. The route used in discovery is... 

Productivity adjusted labor cost in India is 40% of Europe s. 

In a first step the cost structure of a product representative for the value chain was analyzed both for a high-cost and a low-cost country (cf. Fig. 39). As a result, it was decided to explicitly model material costs, labor... 

Chemicals Have Become More Global than Ever 244 Competition from Low-cost Labor Countries Is Changing the Industry Landscape 244 Challenges and Responses 246 Structural Cost Optimization 247 Designing a Global Production Network 247 Focusing on Distinctive Value Creation 248 Operational Cost Optimization 249... 

An extensive effort is being made to collect current cost data from the first quarter (June 1976) to 1979. Particular attention has been paid to accurate representation of the effect of different plant locations (land costs, labor productivities, labor costs, construction difficulties, etc.) and date of construction (escalation of the cost of construction material and labor, and installation material and labor, etc.). Also, great care has been given to the proper estimation of the cost of offsites, since they represent a significant fraction of the cost of a new plant, particularly for large coal-conversion plants. 

The cost of the product of an energy conversion system must equal the sum of fuel expenses and capital (and labor.) charges. It is often convenient to express the product cost in terms of the average.unit cost of product, Ap, and the total amount of product, Pp,.or prc(duct = pp Similarly the fuel costs may be expressed as fuel = A-fPf- Equation 25 may now be written as... 

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