Operations / Capacity Planning
Capacity (Design vs Effective vs Demonstrated)
The most a process could make under three very different assumptions: ideal conditions, realistic conditions, and what it has actually been proven to make.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
Design (nameplate/theoretical) capacity is the ceiling under perfect conditions.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: APICS/ASCM CPIM (rough-cut & detailed capacity planning) · operations-management texts (design vs effective capacity)