MACHINE AND LABOUR UTILISATION
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I dont get how to work out the following question
a printing machine has the capacity to print 6000 a4 pages per hour , during one 40 hour week 180,000 pages were printed the labour force spent 130 hours that week working on products although 150 hours were paid for
calculate the machine and labour utilisation
thanks
a printing machine has the capacity to print 6000 a4 pages per hour , during one 40 hour week 180,000 pages were printed the labour force spent 130 hours that week working on products although 150 hours were paid for
calculate the machine and labour utilisation
thanks
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Re:MACHINE AND LABOUR UTILISATION
Utilisation ratios measure the extent to which we are using productively the resources available to us.
Machine utilisation: if the machine can print 6,000 pages per hour and could work for 40 hours it has the potential to produce 240,000 pages. In the week oin question it only produced 180,000 which is 75% of its potential. We thus made 75% utilisation of the machine.
Labour utilisation: the workforce were paid for 150 hours but only worked 130 (86.67%)
Possibly there is some connection between the two. Possibly a machine breakdown led to the under utilisation of the maxchine and the labour idle time.
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