What are the differences between design capacity and effective capacity? What factors make effective capacity unequal to design capacity?

Planning Capacity

What are the differences between design capacity and effective capacity?
What factors make effective capacity unequal to design capacity? Give examples to support your answer.
Which is harder to plan, production/manufacturing capacity or service capacity? Why? Give examples to support your answer.

Book used for this course: Operations Management, 14th Edition by William J Stevenson.

Minimum 250-word count.

What are the differences between design capacity and effective capacity? What factors make effective capacity unequal to design capacity?
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