Structure
A large organization is poorly structured such that adding more staff only decreases revenue.Facilities
A restaurant is designed for a maximum of 120 seats. In order to achieve its design capacity it requires 12 staff and other inputs such as ample food.Production
The batch production line of a bakery can produce 12,000 loaves of bread an hour on a fully staffed shift.Transport
A subway platform is designed for no more than 12,000 passengers.Energy
A solar module is designed for 20.1% conversion efficiency under ideal conditions such as intense, direct sunlight when the panels are clean.Technology
A cloud platform is designed for scale such that it could support billions of concurrent users if it were allocated enough resources such as millions of computing units.Process
A customer support process has a variety of technology and administrative bottlenecks such that it can't be efficiently scaled beyond serving 1,000 customers an hour.Infrastructure
A rain garden can filter up to 40,000 liters of stormwater an hour.Machines
A robot can sort 10,300 recycling items an hour under ideal conditions such as a high density of objects the robot is able to recognize.Components
A cloud platform designed to scale has a poorly designed component that fails with more than 2,000 concurrent users. The component represents a bottleneck that places a limit on the capacity of the software.| Overview: Design Capacity | ||
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Definition | The maximum capacity of a design under ideal conditions such access to unlimited resources. | |
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