Question

If a solid dosage plant is designed to run an affective 75% utilization on a 24 hour, 5 day a week schedule which of the following scenarios is the minimum that would apply if the yearly forecast for tablet compression of product A increased from 2.5 billion to 3 billion tablets per year:

A. Continue to run 24/7

B. Start running 24/6

C. Purchase a new tablet compression machine

D. Purchase a new tablet compression machine and run 24/6

E. None of the above

Answer 1

According to this, let's calculate first the days that it's actually working the plant (5 days instead of the 7 cause of the 75%usage). This would be 22 days, instead of 30 per month so:

2.5x10⁹ / (22*12) = 9.47x10⁶ tablet/day

Now,this would the the tablet per day that produces the yearly forecast to get the 2.5 billions. Now, if the forecast is raised till 3 billions, we can start running at 6 days per week, (26 days per month):

9.47x10⁶ * (26*12) = 2.955x10⁹ billions/year

So, this could actually works, but if you get a new compression machine, this would produce more tablets per day. So correct option would be D

Hope this helps