The Capacity Analysis worksheet demonstrates the behavior at the bottleneck as the arrival rate is increased while the number of stations remains fixed. This aids in prediction of the maximum demand that can be supported with existing capacity at the bottleneck.
In the example below, there is 1 station available to process arriving demand and it requires about 9.62 minutes of work to process a BatchSize of 1 at the bottleneck ‘CC2’. The throughput rate is 0.10 items per minute (1*1 / 9.62 min = 0.104 per min). The current arrival rate to this bottleneck is 0.047 per minute. The utilization is, therefore, 45% (0.047 / 0.103 = 45%).
The graph and tabular data provided in the Capacity Model worksheet for this example indicates that a 75% increase in demand can reasonably be supported with existing capacity.
Note that this worksheet is only available to ProcessView Professional users.
For formal definitions of ProcessView performance metrics, review the ProcessView Help Contents Detailed Analysis Report section or Glossary.
