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Capacity Utilisation

Level:
GCSE
Board:
AQA, Edexcel, IB, OCR

Last updated 7 Jun 2018

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Capacity utilisation is a measure of the extent to which the productive capacity of a business is being used. It can be defined as:

The percentage of total capacity that is actually being achieved in a given period

Revision Video - Calculating Capacity Utilisation
Revision Video - Capacity Management
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