Seven years ago masscommuter posted the following production analysis in the present facility showing the capacity to produce 1,123,200 kits per quarter at one eight hour shift or 4,492,800 kits per year. If we went to double shift then 8,985,600 kits per year. Tripel shift = over 13 million kits.
Now I know the N Assay is not the same product and not the same manufacturing process but we do have a building with a clean room in place.
WHY DO WE NEED A NEW FACILITY?
And if that facility is not able to produce the N Assay then why not partner with a large company to make it happen?
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CleanRoom Production volume & resulting profits: how to estimate on Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:00 am
masscommuter
"NOTE: take it with a grain of salt, use your own Values for Variables.
Info below is from descriptions of NNLX manuf'g process & New Brunswick equipment & reputable Msg Board posts.
Actual value of some variables is not public knowledge.
Assumptions/guess-timates are NOTED at bottom.
IN SHORT:
As of June 26, 8 Workstations (16 "Machines") are installed in the Hubbard, OH Clean Room Manuf'g / production facilities,
and perhaps 10 people are working on Production.
The critical path is each workstation's PourMatic MP-1000 machine,
which is used TWICE on each dish, reducing hourly output to approx. 375 kits / hr.
The EXAMPLE below results in estimates for NNLX as of 6/26:
Quarterly output, kits produced from 16 machines/8 workstations: 1,123,200
Net profit per Qtr.: $2,620,800
Per-workstation output: 375 kits/hr * 6 hrs/day * 4.8 days/week = 10,800 kits / week.
See VARIABLES and values used for them in the formulae.
See NOTES, e.g. explanation of "machines" vs. "workstations" -
IN LONG:
See "VARIABLES" in example below.
The example uses
6 hours of kit-making per day per workstation,
$28 avg. price per sleeve of 6 dishes
50% profit margin
357 kits / hour produced per workstation.
VARIABLES in calculating production:
WrkStaCount = 8 Number of WorkStations (one wksta has 2 machines: one sterlizer, one PourMatic)
WrkstaOutputPerHr = 375 Dish-fill output per hour for 2 passes, theoretical max 450 (i.e., 1/2 of 900)
HrsPerDay = 6 (Assuming no "2nd shift"; Lowered from 8 hours to allow for misc. other tasks)
DaysPerWeek = 4.8 (Assuming no weekend shift; 10 holidays deducted)
VARIABLES in calculating sales and profit
AvgPricePerSleeveOf6 = $28 (price varies per quantity purchased; prices may drop w/ "mass production" & wholesaling)
NetProfitMarginPct = 50 (a figure used in calculations posted on YMB in '09)
PRODUCTION OUTPUT forecast:
(WrkStaCount * WrkStaOutputPerHr)= KitsPerHr
(8 * 375) = 3,000 kits / hour
(HrsPerDay * DaysPerWk * KitsPerHr)
(6 * 4.8 * 3,000) = 86,400 kits / week (ok: coincidentally, 86,400 is # secs in a day)
(WksPerQtr * KitsPerWk = KitsPerQtr
(13 * 86,400) = 1,123,200 kits produced per Quarter..."
