Increasing Capacity Utilisation

HOW TO INCREASE CAPACITY UTILISATION

1. Businesses can use more capacity by using their facilities for more of the working week - introduce flexible working like shift patterns and weekend work. TWE - How will staff react to flexible working hours?

2. Re-organise production by re-allocating staff to the busiest areas, and through job rotation they can improve motivation and therefore productivity (only works if the workers are flexible with multi-skills). TWE - Costs and costs of training.

3. Sub Contracting - the business could use its facilities to do…