Hello,
I work for a small machine shop that has seen a large amount of growth in the last year. We are now getting the attention of larger customers (large companies / corporations ) that ask us for our shop capacity. We have noticed that they tend to put a lot of weight into our answers, and we feel like depending on our answer we either win them over or lose them. We know we have plenty of capacity to take on more customers but we do not know how to calculate this in order to present it to our potential customers.
Can someone help us with this?
Capabilities:
2 - CNC Mills
1 - Fibre Laser
1 - CNC Lathe
1 - CNC Press Brake
We have enough operators to keep all machines running 40-50 hours a week if needed.
Any help is appreciated.
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Each process ( CNC Mill, CNC Lathe, Laser, etc) should be listed separately. If I received a response back from a company that gave me one capacity number, I would assume they do not understand capacity planning, they would receive a negative checkmarkā¦ Calculate the number of hours available by multiplying the number of hours each machine (shift hours) will run in periods of 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year. Subtract the number of hours you have slated for current jobs (if due date is longer than 1 month, you can spread it out). The numbers of hours remaining will reflect how much capacity hours you have to take on new work. This is ball park and assumes you manufacture parts at a reasonable parts per hour. If you have flexibility to add workers to run 2 or 3 shifts, or add a couple of hours each day, you can calculate that in. You will probably not like your numbersā¦