Just_a_fan wrote: ↑10 Jul 2021, 22:10
Sieper wrote: ↑06 Jul 2021, 20:06
Making parts doesn’t really cost budget. You pay for your staff, materials, facility and overhead. All are more or less already paid for. So just make use of the capacity as much as you can.
Every part you make requires materials both for the part itself and for molds required. And there is wastage of materials e.g. off cuts that can't be used elsewhere. If those parts are additional to the ones you budgeted for then the material has to be bought. Any time spent making those parts can't be used to make other parts - a technician can only do one thing at a time. So there is materials budget and manpower budget. To say that making parts doesn't cost budget is strange, I must say.
You are just disagreeing for the sake of it now. I am just saying that if you wouldn’t make any part at all most of the costs would be incurred anyway. Salary, overhead, equipment, building etc. The only real difference between making use of your capacity or not is the actual material. That isn’t the main part, it is a fraction. The real limitation is how much capacity you do have, on all the mentioned aspects.
