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What is a Good Utilization Level for Operators to Design to?

I usually try to design and balance a system to reflect an Overall operator utilization metric to about 75-80%.

But I have not been doing this long and was wondering what some more Experienced Flexsim users Design their system to reflect in terms of Operator state metrics?

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You're about right, higher than 80% is often considered to be excessive.

However it depends on the level of detail of your tasks - if a task's duration already accounts for multiple subtasks with some small breaks in the subtask sequence then you could be overestimating the utilization by recording them at 100% for the whole task. If you already have full detail and are happy this isn't the case, then approaching 80% would be reasonable.

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