What is Machine Productivity? How to Measure Machine Productivity?

Definition of Machine Productivity

We know that productivity is the ratio of output and input. By the same concept, machine productivity is the ratio of machine output and input.

So, Machine Productivity = Machine Output/Machine Input

Here, Machine output is the number of goods produced by machine and machine input is the number of running machine to produce those goods.

How to Measure Machine Productivity?

Machine productivity is measured by dividing the total amount of output and the total number of machines required to produce those outputs. Let’s see an example to be more understanding.

Example:

Suppose, in a garments sewing line total output is 1500 pieces shirt in a day. Total 52 was running to produce those shirts. Now, what is the machine productivity?

We know that,

Machine Productivity = Machine Output/Machine Input

Here, Machine Output  = Total amount of output  = 1500 pieces shirt

          Labor Output      = Number of machine       = 52

So, Machine Productivity = 1500/52 = 28.85 pieces per machine per day

If more pieces are produced by the same or less number of machine, then the machine productivity will higher and vice versa.

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