Factory Profit Optimizer Usage and General Options

Factory Profit Optimizer is designed to be easy to use. You can find an optimal product mix in two steps. First create a project and model all of your processes. Then generate a report.

General use

A Factory Profit Optimizer project is divided into 3 logical sections.

Once you have created all the resources and processes of your factory, simply hit the Optimize button to generate a comprehensive analysis report.

Options

For every Factory Profit Optimizer project that you create, you need to set different parameters such as financial information and currency.

When you click the options button, you get a dialog where you can set different parameters for the Factory Profit Optimizer project.

Name: Name of the project.

Description: Description of the project.

Total Production Hours: Total amount of production hours available for the period of analysis. This is used by the Factory Profit Optimizer as a time constraint for all of the processes. For example, if your production schedule is 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, then you should put 2080 hours. This period should match all the financial and manufacturing data entered in the Factory Profit Optimizer.

Currency: Set the currency to use.

Cost of Sales: Set the amount of variable operating costs (material, salaries, ...) that occurred during the period of the analysis. This will be used for comparison against the optimized solution.

Fixed Operating Costs: Set the amount of fixed operating costs (selling and administrative expenses, ...) that occurred during the period of the analysis.

Change in Fixed Operating Costs: For example, if you add an equipment to your optimal process, you can add its period fixed cost here. (Subtract if you sell one)

Fixed Operating Costs (Optimal): Automatically calculated by adding the changes to the fixed operating costs.