The Utilization Worksheet answers the question ‘how busy is the busiest activity in the process?’. This worksheet also lists the process activities sorted from largest to smallest utilization.
Activity Utilization is a comparison of how fast things arrive and how fast they can be processed at an activity. Utilization values should be greater than zero (0.0) and less than or equal to 100% (1.0). 0% < Utilization ≥ 100%
If utilization is greater than 100%, the activity is overwhelmed with work and will not be able to keep pace with the rate of arriving items. To decrease activity utilization, the work must be accomplished in less time (decrease process time) or more items have to be worked on at the same time (increase stations and/or batch size).
As this worksheet is written to Microsoft Excel, cell values in the data table may be changed to see the impact on utilization).
