homework practice
FALL SEMESTER 2016
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a Company producing a large array of electrical equipment has decided he/she wants to expand the range of products to include a new electric motor similar to a smaller one the Company used to produce years back. The CEO intends to locate the production of the new line of electric motors in one of the two Plants owned by the Company, one in the North West and the other in the South, and he/she asks the Company’s Planning Department to analyze the investment. You are an engineer working in the Planning Department and collect the necessary data:
ü Time when a similar smaller electric motor was produced 5 years ago ü Size of the similar smaller electric motor 5HP ü Original cost of material for similar smaller electric motor $300 (5yrs ago) ü Size of the new electric motor to be produced 15HP ü Cost and Price indexes 5 years ago 450 ü Cost and Price indexes now 650 ü Power sizing exponent for electric motors 0.69 ü Variables depending on location
• Cost of implementation of production line in North-‐West $1,000,000 • Cost of implementation of production line in South $800,000 • Labor Cost in North-‐West $75/mhr • Labor Cost in South $50/mhr • Estimate of mhr to produce first 15HP unit in North-‐West 40 mhr • Estimate of mhr to produce first 15 HP unit in South 50 mhr • Learning curve rate in North-‐West 82% • Learning curve rate in South 85% • Cost of Capital in North-‐West 6.5% • Cost of capital in South 7.30%
Evaluate the following:
1. Material Cost for the 15HP unit today 2. Labor cost at both locations for producing the 50th unit 3. If the Company wants to add a 25% margin over Material+Labor cost (and will not account for
any other costs), what would be the sale price per unit produced in the North-‐West and per unit produced in the South (use the labor cost of the 50th unit as a constant for the entire production)
4. The Company can reasonably anticipate making a net profit of 15% per unit (i.e. 15% of unit sale price) and reaching an average sale volume of 500 units per year. If the planned life of this investment (i.e. the length of time the production of the 15HP motor will continue) is 15 years (assume material and labor cost will remain constant over such period), what would be the Present Value of the investment in the North-‐West and what in the South?