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Using the numbers you provided and assuming a 40 hour work week and 50 production weeks/year - 2 weeks for employee holidays unless you are in a country that gives employees one month off.
You are able to produce 17.24 units/year at rate of 116/unit for the 10 ton class and 12.5 units/year in the larger class - 160 hour/unit to produce. This is if all goes well in the receipt of all production materials - customs/shipping issues sometimes can cause unforeseen delays especially if you shipping over big bodies of water -(like FDA checks, hurricanes/typhoons etc.) Dealt with these issues when we imported products from Great Britain i.e. Lance Boss side loaders & large capacity (above 15K) front loading and units from Japan - Mitsubishi & Komatsu

At that rate it would take several years to produce 200 units - so sales agents can "earn" big bucks you project. If working just a single 8 hr shift it would take 11.6 to 16 years to produce 200 units - 3 shifts about 4 to 5 years.
Yes you can work multiple shifts but my experience says that the 2nd or 3rd shifts are less productive & produce more quality issues than first shift production.
Just my nickles worth!
But a nickle won't buy you a cup of coffee except in Wall Drugs, Wall, South Dakota.

Good Luck If & When this venture gets off the drawing board - it is late already by a year or two based on your earlier projections..
  • Posted 17 Oct 2018 03:10
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