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- a measure of the plant and equipment of a company or an industry that is actually being used to produce goods or services. Capacity utilization is usually measured over a...
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- Universal Technical Institute Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question and that’s coming from Kevin Doherty – Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Kevin Doherty – Bank of America Merrill Lynch Just wanted to get a sense at what point should you start to really leverage your existing cost...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-03
- Kulicke & Soffa Industries Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Sure sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll know be conducting a question-and-answer session. Operator Instructions. Thank you. Our first question is from the line of Brett Hodess from Banc of America. Please proceed with your question sir. Brett Hodess - Banc of America Good morning. So, I have...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-28
- Ford Motor Co. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of John Murphy, representing Merrill Lynch. John Murphy - Merrill Lynch One thing that seems to be getting lost in the shuffle here I think is that your capacity utilization rate in North America was incredibly low in...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-23
- A Few Numbers Tell the Story of GM Loss
- In 75 pages of mostly bad news, one of the worst pieces of news in GM's latest earnings report is that GM is operating its auto plants at an average of only about 72 percent capacity. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Data on Production and Producer Prices Will Not Change Fed Policy
- Data on industrial production, capacity utilization, and the producer price index were released today. Turning first to the price data, the seasonally adjusted data for the producer price index rose 0.3% on an annual basis, but when food and energy prices are removed to get the core...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
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- Estimating Capacity Utilization From Survey Data
- This paper reviews the history and concepts behind the Federal Reserve's measures of capacity and capacity utilization, summarizes the methods used to construct the measures, and describes the principal source data for these measures - the Census Bureau's Survey of Plant Capacity. The paper shows that the aggregate manufacturing utilization...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Technology, Capital Spending, and Capacity Utilization
- This paper examines the relationships between technology, capital spending, and capacity utilization. Recent technological changes have increased the flexibility of relationships between inputs and outputs in manufacturing, which may have eroded the predictive value of the utilization rate. This paper considers how technology might be expected to affect utilization. It...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Capacity utilization--everything you wanted to know
- But were afraid to ask Behind the numbers I have a number of acquaintances that make their living in U.S. manufacturing-either as manufacturers themselves or as suppliers to manufacturers. They often ask me, "Boy, those capacity utilization numbers really look awful; but I wish I knew...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- Industrial production and capacity utilization: the 1997 revision
- Earlier this year, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System completed a revision of its measures of output, capacity and capacity utilization for the industrial sector. The primary feature of the revision was the introduction of a new formulation for aggregating the indexes and utilization rates based on...
- Research articles 1997-07-01
- The U.S. Capacity Utilization Rate
- The recent strengh of the U.S. economy and historically low rates of inflation have sparked considerable debate among economists and Federal Reserve officials. In order to better explain the recent behaviour of inflation, some observers have raised the concept of a non-accelerating inflation capacity utilization rate NAICU. In this study,...
- White papers 1999-09-01
- Puda Coal, Inc. Significantly Increases Capacity Utilization
- Puda Coal, Inc. ("Puda" or the "Company") (OTCBB: PUDC), a leading supplier of China's highest grade metallurgical coking coal -- which is used to make coke for steel manufacturing, announced today that it has significantly increased its coal cleaning capacity utilization since bringing online its newest processing plant. The...
- Research articles 2006-12-12
- Annual revision to the indexes of industrial production and capacity utilization - The Statistics Producers' Corner - Federal Reserve Board
- The 1998 annual revision to the Federal Reserve Board's indexes of industrial production and capacity utilization, which was released late last year, introduced several improvements. Most notably, new indexes were developed for four production series in the electronics components industry, including a separate series for semiconductors and related devices (SIC...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- Posting of Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization release
- The Federal Reserve Board's report on Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization (G.17) for March 2005, was inadvertently posted, as the result of human error, on the Board's public web site fifteen minutes before the release time of 9:15 a.m. EDT on April 15, 2005.
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- Diverging measures of capacity utilization: an explanation; The differences between the federal reserve board and the institute for supply management measures are more apparent than real
- In the wake of the recent recovery in manufacturing production, the capacity utilization rates published by the Federal Reserve Board FRB have rebounded much more slowly than those published by the Institute for Supply Management ISM. As a result, some observers have speculated that the manufacturing sector may have considerably...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Mill utilization rate 88.7% during May: Fed.
- Mill Utilization Rate 88.7% During May: Fed WASHINGTON FNS -- Textile mills operated at 88.7 per cent of capacity in May, a drop from the 89.2 per cent reported in April, the Federal Reserve reported. Utilization in nondurable manufacturing was 83.8 per cent of...
- Research articles 1986-07-18
- Mill use rises to 91% of capacity in April. (textile industry)
- MILL USE RISES TO 91% OF CAPACITY IN APRIL WASHINGTON FNS -- Textile manufacturers continue to produce more and operate at their highest rate of capacity in a year, according to latest government figures. The Federal Reserve Board reported Thursday...
- Research articles 1989-06-16
- US textile mills operated high capacity in July.
- US Textile Mills Operated High Capacity in July Textile mills operated at 91.2 per cent of capacity in July, the highest level this year and a reflection of the continued rise in textile output, the Federal Reserve reported. Although the...
- Research articles 1986-09-19
- Utilization Of Capacity: An Overlooked Factor In Activity-Based Management
- In recent times, the aspect of capacity utilization has assumed significance in the realm of ‘Activity Based Management'. The basic measurement of capacity uses time and the time is divided into three categories viz. productive, idle, and non-productive. The other four elements of capacity are people, equipment, facilities, and materials....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Recent developments in industrial capacity and utilization
- Recent Developments in Industrial Capacity and UtilizationRichard D. Raddock, of the Board's Industrial Output Section in the Division of Research and Statistics, prepared this article. The author and Charles E. Gilbert, assisted by Tory M. Wolff, are responsible for the revised estimates.The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
- Research articles 1990-06-01
- Capacity usage at mills slips in February.
- WASHINGTON FNS -- Textile mills operated at 77 per cent of capacity in February, continuing the drop from last summer, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. Since the July 1984 high of 84.1 per cent, utilization in durable manufacturing has decreased 2.8 percentage points....
- Research articles 1985-04-19
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