The AER company operates 24 hours a day. The performance measures of the production equipment used for 1 month are as follows: -Open time is 30 days -The expected time of non-availability of production equipment is 97 hours -The Unplanned hardware downtime is 25.5 hours - Hardware downtime attributable to employee delays is 2817 minutes - Equipment downtime due to power outages is 4578 minutes ' Determine the efficiency rate and the utilization rate of production equipment
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The AER company operates 24 hours a day. The performance measures of the production equipment used for 1 month are as follows:
-Open time is 30 days
-The expected time of non-availability of production equipment is 97 hours
-The Unplanned hardware downtime is 25.5 hours
- Hardware downtime attributable to employee delays is 2817 minutes
- Equipment downtime due to power outages is 4578 minutes '
Determine the efficiency rate and the utilization rate of production equipment
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