Capacity Planning Concepts
The Learning Curve
Capacity Planning in Action
Trivia
Final Jeopardy
100
The ability to hold, receive, store or accommodate.
What is capacity?
100
A line displaying the relationship between unit production and the cumulative number of items produced.
What is a learning curve?
100
The amount of capacity in excess of expected demand.
What is capacity cushion?
100

According to Nicholas, this is the largest producer of air-cooled engines.

Briggs & Stratton

100
The number of jelly beans per second that Jelly Belly Candy Company produces.
What is 347 jelly beans per second?
200
The ability to rapidly increase or decrease production levels or to shift production capacity from one product or service to the other.
What is capacity flexibility?
200
Shows the cumulative average performance times as the total number of units increases.
What is cumulative average time?
200
Two types of costs to consider when adding capacity.
What are the cost of upgrading too frequently & the cost of upgrading too infrequently?
200

The maximum rate of output that Luke can produce in a period of time under ideal operating conditions?

What is Theoretical Capacity?

200

The actual capacity that Madison can expect to be achieved in the long run under normal operating conditions?

What is Effective Capacity?

300
When multiple products are less expensive to produce together than they are to produce separately.
What are economies of scope?
300
The first industry to apply learning curves?
What is the airplane industry?
300
A schematic model of sequence steps in a problem and the conditions and consequences of each step.
What is a decision tree?
300
This Irish rock band is also the name of a tart, red fruit.
Who are The Cranberries?
300
RMS stand for?

What is Revenue Management System?

400
Capacity used divided by the best operating level.
What is capacity utilization rate?
400
The normal form of the learning curve equation.
What is the Y_x=Kx^n
400
These three capacity planning components apply to service–based industries.
What are time, location and volatility of demand?
400
This crop disease was the cause of the Great Famine of 1845 - 1852.
What is Potato Blight?
400

A promise Riley might make to provide a good or service at some future time and place.

What is a reservation?

500

True or False. Sercan used to work in a restaurant.

True.

500

True or False? Amanda says that capacity can be the rate of production output per unit of time.

True.

500

Mia says that this is a specification of work to be performed.

What is a Work Order?

500

This concept states that direct labor unit costs decrease in a predicable manner.

What is the Learning Curve?

500

This theme park charges Jack $25 if he no-shows for his dinner reservations.

What is Disney World?

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