What is Samantha's daily design capacity? b) What is Samantha's daily effective capacity? c) What is Samantha's actual output per day? d) What is Samantha's utilization rate? e) Samantha wants to improve her utilization rate. Identify 3 ways she can do so
Samantha owns and operates a barbershop in the Houston area. The barbershop has 10 barber chairs. Samantha only operates 5 chairs at a time, leaving the rest of the chairs vacant to reduce overcrowding, clean-up time, and repair costs. Based on her latest revenue reports, she is averaging 3 customers receiving a haircut while the other two chairs are vacant. The barbershop is open 10 hours per day. Each customer requires 30 minutes to receive a proper haircut.
a) What is Samantha's daily design capacity?
b) What is Samantha's daily effective capacity?
c) What is Samantha's actual output per day?
d) What is Samantha's utilization rate?
e) Samantha wants to improve her utilization rate. Identify 3 ways she can do so.
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