1. User's Guide
  2. Working with Detailed Profitability
  3. Creating Detailed Profitability Reports
  4. Detailed Profitability Stage Balancing Report
  5. Idle Capability

Idle Capability

The terms full capability or capacity indicate that all model resources are being fully used to perform a task or assignment.

The terms idle capability or idle capacity indicate that some model resources are not being fully utilized. To maximize the use of resources, or to monitor inefficiencies, such as machine downtime, consider tracking idle capability.

Idle capacity is created by either Rate-Based or Ratio-Based drivers.

  • Rate-Based drivers automatically create Idle and OverDriven where appropriate.

  • Ratio-Based drivers only create Idle capacity when Allow Idle is checked.

    You set the ability to calculate and report idle capability when you create or modify a driver, by selecting the Allow Idle option, and then selecting an Override Total Driver Value Measure to allocate the value. The Override Total Driver Value Measure is the location of the values that become the denominator of the Ratio for the distribution allocation.

See Defining Detailed Profitability Drivers.

To view Idle Cost on the Stage Balancing Report, see Generating the Detailed Profitability Stage Balancing Report.