[John Rogers]

If it were me I would want more information:

- Is the 50 blade limit per day or week or what?

- What is the cost per hour of the assembly people?

- What is the cost per hour of the QA people?

- How many hours per day does everyone work, 8 maximum?

- Are the washers and dryers done on a moving line or does one person do the whole washer or dryer?

This is from working on software the past 4 years that figured manufacturing cost or repair cost for "parts" and in our case it was aircraft components repairs. To figure the cost of doing the work some of the above items were required. If you calculate just by figuring the "hands on" time or when someone is wworking on it the washers take 21.6 total hours and figuring $455 cost to make that amounts to cost per hour of $21.06. For the dryers, they take 7.5 hours and their cost is $183 or $24.4 cost per hour. Both of these ignore the personnel costs associated with the manufacture of the product so it cost less per hour to make washers but the dryers take 1/3 the time and you also have the 50 blade limit which if per day which means you can make 50 washers max per day and that lets you have the time to build 150 dryer per day.

I also forgot to add in things like lost personel time due to vacation, etc but programs usually never figure that in for some reason.