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- Title
UNDERSTANDING Capacity Utilization AT ROCKETDYNE.
- Authors
Buttross, Thomas E.; Buddenbohm, Hal; Swenson, Dan
- Abstract
Three years ago, the Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power division of The Boeing Company, a leading maker of rocket engines, implemented the CAM-I capacity model. The model is robust enough to be applied to facilities, equipment, materials, or people because of its use of time as a measurement standard, which links these seemingly different areas of interest. All resources have a maximum (theoretical) utilization of 24 hours per day or 8,760 hours per year. Knowing whether or not a resource is productive and separating other-than-productive resources into idle and nonproductive time provides information on which to take action. For example, idle capacity and nonproductive capacity are caused by quite different conditions. Therefore, each condition must be monitored and analyzed separately to arrive at the correct course of action.
- Subjects
PRATT &; Whitney Rocketdyne Inc.; BOEING Co.; TIME management; MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL efficiency
- Publication
Management Accounting Quarterly, 2000, Vol 1, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1528-5359
- Publication type
Article